Suwon Media Center Hosts 'Suwon Bathed in Light' Exhibition
The Suwon Media Center under the Suwon Culture Foundation (CEO Kwak Do-yong) will operate a university collaborative media convergence and complex content planning exhibition titled '2026 Suwon Bathed in Light – AI Digital, Drawing Artists' in partnership with Kyung Hee University Graduate School's Department of Media and Entertainment from the 14th to the 30th.
This exhibition was organized to provide graduate students with hands-on creative experiences by planning and implementing works in actual exhibition spaces, linking the university's research and creative capabilities with the infrastructure held by the media center.
The most distinctive feature of this collaboration is that students' ideas are not confined to classrooms or studios but are implemented as works in cultural spaces visited by citizens.
The exhibition features nine multinational media artists (Yu Dong-seok, Lui Uen Wa, Niu Yingxue, Yang Linfei, Yoo Su-min, Jung Sung-kyung, Song Xiaojia, Joo Si-won, Huynh Thi Van An) comprised of Kyung Hee University graduate students from South Korea, Hong Kong, Vietnam, and China, as well as faculty members (Department Chair Lee Eun-hye and Professors Kim Bo-sung, Kang Kyung-ho, and Kim Na-rae). Utilizing the Suwon Media Center's traditional Korean-style spaces, a total of 12 works will be planned, produced, and exhibited across five concepts.
Through institutional collaboration, students will have opportunities for field-oriented project education, including presenting their works in actual exhibition spaces and receiving feedback from visitors. The Suwon Media Center will also move away from acquiring content through outsourced production and instead utilize the university's creative research and artistic capabilities to present experimental content reflecting the latest technology to citizens and tourists.
This exhibition focuses on combining the history and culture of 'Suwon' and the creative works of local artists with media technology to expand into new content.
The collaboration features the works of artist Choi Kyung-ja, who has been active in Suwon, expanding the symbols, emotions, textures, and movements contained in the artist's paintings into media art, showcasing diverse works centered around five concepts: 'Gasina,' 'Tiger and Magpie,' 'Pottery and Dancing People,' 'Mirror and Mosi Patchwork,' and 'Bathed in Color.' The images, colors, narratives, and spatiality of the works are analyzed and combined with digital technology, with light, movement, video, and spatial design added to static paintings to create new forms of content.
An official from the Suwon Culture Foundation stated, "This project is a collaboration model where the public institution's space and infrastructure, the university's creative talent, and local artists' cultural resources come together to create new content. We will provide students with opportunities to present their creative works to citizens, the center will acquire new content, and we will expand inter-institutional cooperation so that local artists' works can be delivered to more citizens through media technology."