# XD Lab — KAIST Experience Design Lab

> Art-and-technology research lab at KAIST Industrial Design, led by Prof. Yiyun Kang. Media art, interactive art, web art, art-tech research. 강이연 교수가 이끄는 KAIST 산업디자인학과 경험디자인연구실.

## Lab
- [XD Lab homepage](https://www.xdlab.net): The KAIST Experience Design Lab — research, projects, people, events.
- [About](https://www.xdlab.net/about): Lab mission, methodology, history.
- [Projects](https://www.xdlab.net/projects): Research outputs and artworks across video, interactive installation, web art.
- [People](https://www.xdlab.net/people): Director, researchers, collaborators.
- [Events](https://www.xdlab.net/events): Exhibitions, talks, screenings.

## Living Geometry 2026 — Current Exhibition

> A KAIST XD Lab special media-art exhibition at YDP Artsquare (영등포아트스퀘어), Seoul. May 1 – June 28, 2026. Free admission. Seven works across single-channel video, interactive installation, and web art by Yiyun Kang (강이연), Jeanyoon Choi (최정윤), Intae Hwang (황인태), Minhyeok Seo (서민혁). Curated and developed by KAIST Experience Design Lab. Hosted by Yeongdeungpo-gu, organized by YDP Artsquare. Themes: Anthropocene, technosphere, climate crisis, post-human cityscape, differential geometry, theoretical physics, generative AI, real-time data visualization. 영등포아트스퀘어(타임스퀘어 B2F) — 미디어아트, 인터랙티브 아트, 웹 아트.

- [Exhibition main page](https://www.xdlab.net/events/living-geometry-2026): 3D interactive poster, full bilingual content, FAQ.

### Works (Korean · English title)
- [배니싱 2.0 · Vanishing 2.0](https://www.xdlab.net/events/living-geometry-2026/works/vanishing-2) — Yiyun Kang, Minhyeok Seo, Amanda Zeline, Euan Kang, 2025. Single-channel video, sound, 3′30″. A meditation on the sixth mass extinction that moves beyond elegy to imagine what might emerge after disappearance.
- [테크노스피어 · Technosphere](https://www.xdlab.net/events/living-geometry-2026/works/technosphere) — Yiyun Kang, 2026. Single-channel video, sound, 2′7″. A video asking where the technosphere — humanity's self-built sixth sphere — is taking us.
- [사라진 후에 · Post-Vanishing](https://www.xdlab.net/events/living-geometry-2026/works/post-vanishing) — Minhyeok Seo, 2026. Single-channel video, sound, 2′5″. Three creatures embody the matter, connection, and surface of a city left behind by humans.
- [떨어지지 않는 풍경 · City'scape + Tied](https://www.xdlab.net/events/living-geometry-2026/works/cityscape-tied) — Minhyeok Seo, 2026. Small door, TV screen, single-channel video, 1′30″; large door, TV screen, interactive installation, sound. A situational design that uses a door to stage the layered emotions of the city.
- [골디락스 · Goldilocks](https://www.xdlab.net/events/living-geometry-2026/works/goldilocks) — Intae Hwang, 2025. Interactive installation, single-channel projection, sound, custom software. An interactive installation plotting visitor-made weather against Seoul's live data to reveal a collective climate Goldilocks zone.
- [베슬 · Vessel](https://www.xdlab.net/events/living-geometry-2026/works/vessel) — Intae Hwang, 2026. Interactive installation, dual-channel projection, sound, pulse sensor, custom software. An interactive data sculpture where a year of Seoul's mobility meets your pulse to let the city breathe with you.
- [∫ · ∫](https://www.xdlab.net/events/living-geometry-2026/works/banpo-xism) — Jeanyoon Choi, 2026. Multi-Device Web Artwork. A web work where visitors scroll through AI-generated apartments, sounds, text, and code — looping endlessly through brand competition.

### Artists
- [강이연 · Yiyun Kang](https://www.xdlab.net/events/living-geometry-2026/artists/yiyun) — Yiyun Kang is Professor at KAIST Industrial Design and Director of the Experience Design Lab (XD Lab), working at the intersection of art and technology. She translates the climate and AI crises confronting humanity into the language of sensory experience, continually questioning binary thinking to render the light and shadow of contemporary society. She has collaborated with leading institutions and partners such as Google, NASA, Max Mara, and BTS; given talks at venues including TED 2026; and held solo exhibitions at the Victoria and Albert Museum, COP28, among other major institutions worldwide. Works: Vanishing 2.0, Technosphere.
- [최정윤 · Jeanyoon Choi](https://www.xdlab.net/events/living-geometry-2026/artists/jeanyoon) — Jeanyoon Choi is a PhD researcher at KAIST XD Lab, producing critical interactive artworks grounded in web and software engineering. He graduated from Information Experience Design at the Royal College of Art (London), and has taught interaction design at the Korea National University of Arts. His work has been shown in group exhibitions including Ars Electronica, IDAF, and Design Korea. Works: ∫.
- [황인태 · Intae Hwang](https://www.xdlab.net/events/living-geometry-2026/artists/intae) — Intae Hwang is an MS candidate at KAIST XD Lab — Lorem Ipsum Works: Goldilocks, Vessel.
- [서민혁 · Minhyeok Seo](https://www.xdlab.net/events/living-geometry-2026/artists/minhyeok) — Minhyeok Seo is an MS candidate at KAIST XD Lab — Lorem Ipsum Works: Vanishing 2.0, Post-Vanishing, City'scape + Tied.

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## Contact
- Email: xdlab@yiyunkang.com
- Director: Yiyun Kang (강이연), Professor, KAIST Industrial Design