《Living Geometry 2026》, currently on view at Yeongdeungpo Art Square, is a media art exhibition conceived and developed by the Experience Design Lab (XD Lab) of the Department of Industrial Design at KAIST.
 
The exhibition approaches the city not as a fixed physical space, but as a dynamic living system in which humans, technology, ecology, and data overlap and interact.
 
Yeongdeungpo is a place where industrial history, financial infrastructure, and cultural experimentation coexist. Taking this complexity as its point of departure,《Living Geometry》redefines the city as an organic entity animated by the intertwined relationships among humans, nonhuman actors, and technological systems. The exhibition consists of three single-channel video works, three interactive installations, and one multi-device web-based artwork, featuring works by Yiyun Kang, Jeanyoon Choi, Intae Hwang, and Minhyeok Seo.
 
 
 
A New Way of Reading the City
 
Today, cities can no longer be understood simply as collections of buildings, roads, residential areas, and commercial districts. They are complex urban systems shaped by human mobility, data flows, economic value, ecological environments, and technological infrastructures.《Living Geometry》proposes the notion of a “living geometry” as a framework for understanding the complexity of contemporary urban systems.
 
Here, geometry does not refer merely to static forms or mathematical order. Instead, it signifies a constantly evolving structure of relationships. Human movement, weather patterns, urban data, real-estate values, technological systems, and ecological crises all become invisible lines and planes that compose the city.

1. Vanishing 2.0 : The Sixth Mass Extinction
 
Vanishing 2.0 is a single-channel video work addressing the sixth mass extinction currently being accelerated by human activity. Created collaboratively by Yiyun Kang, Minhyeok Seo, Amanda Zeline, and Youan Kang, the work visualizes the ecological crisis of the Anthropocene through disappearing species. Its dazzling digital imagery functions not merely as spectacle, but as a device that prompts reflection on the traces and responsibilities human civilization has left upon the natural world.

2. Technosphere : The Technological Environment Created by Humanity
 
Technosphere explores the technosphere as a new planetary environment created by human activity. Through this work, Yiyun Kang demonstrates how roads, architecture, communication networks, data centers, and energy infrastructures have become inseparable components of both urban life and the planetary environment. The work examines how this technosphere reshapes nature and human existence alike.

3. Post-Vanishing : The Post-Human City
 
Post-Vanishing imagines a city that persists after the disappearance of humankind. Rather than depicting urban ruins, Minhyeok Seo proposes a nonhuman urban environment capable of continuing beyond human presence. In doing so, the work challenges anthropocentric conceptions of the city and encourages viewers to reconsider urban space as a field jointly constituted by ecology, technology, and nonhuman entities.

4. City’scape + Tied: The City as a Structure of Connections
 
Combining physical doors, moving images, and audience interaction, City’scape + Tied presents the city not as a collection of buildings and roads but as a complex structure woven from people, movement, memory, and data. Through this installation, Minhyeok Seo interprets urban landscapes as networks of relationships and flows rather than static images.

5. Goldilocks : Weather and the Conditions of Urban Balance
 
Goldilocks is an interactive installation that allows visitors to construct their own climatic conditions by manipulating seven meteorological variables—including temperature, humidity, wind speed, cloud cover, visibility, rainfall, and snowfall—and linking them to real-time weather data from Seoul. Through this work, Intae Hwang demonstrates that environmental data are not abstract numerical values but conditions directly connected to human life and urban sustainability.

6. Vessel : Connecting the Human Body and Urban Data
 
Vessel is a biofeedback-driven interactive installation that combines bodily signals with real-time urban data. Intae Hwang links the physical responses of visitors with the dynamic flows of city data, revealing that the human body and urban environment are not separate systems but mutually interactive structures.

7. Banpo Xi-ism : Visualizing Urban Capital and Real-Estate Value
 
Banpo Xi-ism is a multi-device web-based artwork by Jeanyoon Choi. The work examines South Korea’s real-estate value system through the lens of branded apartment culture. Through data-driven and web-based formats, it analyzes the symbolic and economic structures produced by branded apartment complexes. Urban space emerges not simply as a place of residence but as a structure through which capital, desire, and social hierarchy operate.
 
 
 
Participating Artists
 
Yiyun Kang is a media artist whose practice explores relationships among humans, technology, nature, and the environment. In this exhibition, she expands discussions of urban ecology through works addressing the Anthropocene, the technosphere, and posthuman cities.
 
 
Jeanyoon Choi develops research-based projects that connect science and technology with sociocultural systems. In Banpo Xi-ism, she examines the structures of urban space and real-estate value systems in contemporary Korea through a web-based format.
 
 
Intae Hwang investigates relationships among people, cities, and environments through data visualization, interactive media, and experience design. In this exhibition, Goldilocks and Vessel connect audience participation with urban data systems.
 
 
Minhyeok Seo focuses on digital environments, future cities, and posthuman worlds. Through Post-Vanishing and City’scape + Tied, he presents visions of urban life that move beyond human-centered perspectives.
 
 
Public Programs
 
As part of the exhibition, “Artist Talk with KAIST XD Lab” will be held on June 20, 2026, with advance registration required. In addition, the participatory program “The City I Draw“runs from May 9 through June 27, 2026. Further information and registration details are available through Yeongdeungpo Art Square’s official channels.


 
Exhibition Information
 
《Living Geometry 2026》
May 1 – June 28, 2026
Yeongdeungpo Art Square
B2F, Times Square, 15 Yeongjung-ro, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul
Hours: Daily, 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Last Admission: 5:45 PM
Free Admission
Reservation: Not required
Concept & Development: Experience Design Lab (XD Lab), Department of Industrial Design, KAIST
Organizer: Yeongdeungpo-gu / Yeongdeungpo Art Square
Website: xdlab.net/events/living-geometry-2026