# MUESUM

Canonical URL: https://www.xdlab.net/projects/muesum
Artwork identifier: https://www.xdlab.net/projects/muesum#work
Artwork names: MUESUM; 뮤숨
Korean title: 뮤숨
Year: 2025
Artwork creators: Minhyeok Seo, Junyeong Im
Medium: Led wall, 3 '03 '' video, audio
Exhibition / venue: KF XR Gallery

## Artwork

MUESUM is an immersive video work that allows experience of relation between endangered animals and humans.

More animals are becoming endangered due to human activities. MUESUM seeks to put viewers in an immersive museum setting with animals on display. Animals, once in the wild, are captured and brought to museum setting. Description on the display glass explains how human activity is related their extinction. Extinction is visualized with black cloth falling on to taxidermied species. After a blackout, MUESUM imagines a future where human species are extinct, and puts the viewer in a display situation where the animals are watching them. The relation between animals-humans, viewer-object, human-extinction is explored with the shift of view.

## 한국어 작품 설명

멸종위기종과 생태적 무빙 이미지를 포스트휴먼 뮤지엄 서사로 구성한 몰입형 미디어아트 작품이다.

## Research

Research question: How can immersive moving image reframe relations between endangered species and humans?
Method: immersive moving image, ecological media art, post-human museum narrative
Research contribution: Builds an ecological, post-human narrative around endangered species rather than treating them as museum specimens.

## Research concepts

- [immersive moving image · 몰입형 무빙 이미지](https://www.xdlab.net/projects/muesum#concept-immersive-moving-image)
- [endangered species · 멸종위기종](https://www.xdlab.net/projects/muesum#concept-endangered-species)
- [ecological media art · 생태 미디어아트](https://www.xdlab.net/projects/muesum#concept-ecological-media-art)
- [post-human museum narrative · 포스트휴먼 뮤지엄 서사](https://www.xdlab.net/projects/muesum#concept-post-human-museum)

## Artwork video

- [MUESUM video](https://vimeo.com/1139757320)
- [Embedded player](https://player.vimeo.com/video/1139757320)
- [Video thumbnail](https://www.xdlab.net/projects-optimized/9/1-1920.webp)

## Artwork images

- [MUESUM — image 1 of 5](https://www.xdlab.net/projects-optimized/9/1-1920.webp)
- [MUESUM — image 2 of 5](https://www.xdlab.net/projects-optimized/9/2-1920.webp)
- [MUESUM — image 3 of 5](https://www.xdlab.net/projects-optimized/9/3-1920.webp)
- [MUESUM — image 4 of 5](https://www.xdlab.net/projects-optimized/9/4-1920.webp)
- [MUESUM — image 5 of 5](https://www.xdlab.net/projects-optimized/9/5-1920.webp)