Public Art Lights Up Seoul’s District of Gangnam

January 6, 2014  |   Feature,   Initiatives,   World
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News media reported today that a spectacular “kinetic cube” is lighting up Seoul’s district of Gangnam.
Read more about the image below by Korean media artist Jin-Yo Mok.

Comprised of 576 clear LED poles that move up and down, the 36-square-meter matrix, named "Brilliant Cube," continuously flashes hypnotic, colorful patterns and images in one of the most crowded -- and now famous -- areas of Seoul.
Comprised of 576 clear LED poles that move up and down, the 36-square-meter matrix, named “Brilliant Cube,” continuously flashes hypnotic, colorful patterns and images in one of the most crowded — and now famous — areas of Seoul.
Jin-Yo Mok is a media artist working and living in Seoul. He received his BFA and MFA from Hong-Ik University and continued his study at the ITP, New York University. His works have been exhibited, collected and featured both online and offline over the world including ARS Electronica, Whitney museum, Chelsea museum New York, Guggenheim Bilbao museum, Taipei museum of contemporary art, Korea national museum of contemporary art, Direct Digital in Italy, etc. He also made a large-scaled 3-layered LED façade for Shinsegae department store in 2010 in Seoul, and recently created the renowned kinetic landscape Hyper-Matrix for Hyundai motor group. He is leading a Seoul based media artists group Jonpasang and as a professor teaching at the digital art program of Yonsei university, Korea.
Jin-Yo Mok is a media artist working and living in Seoul. He received his BFA and MFA from Hong-Ik University and continued his study at the ITP, New York University. His works have been exhibited, collected and featured both online and offline over the world including ARS Electronica, Whitney museum, Chelsea museum New York, Guggenheim Bilbao museum, Taipei museum of contemporary art, Korea national museum of contemporary art, Direct Digital in Italy, etc. He also made a large-scaled 3-layered LED façade for Shinsegae department store in 2010 in Seoul, and recently created the renowned kinetic landscape Hyper-Matrix for Hyundai motor group. He is leading a Seoul based media artists group Jonpasang and as a professor teaching at the digital art program of Yonsei university, Korea.
SoniColumn (2006) is an interactive sound installation that can be played by touch. The installation takes the form of a column-like cylinder, of a height that does not quite reach the ceiling but just high enough to reach. Grids of LEDs installed inside the column light themselves on by the users’ touch and emit unique sounds. When a user cranks the handle, the column slowly rotates itself and plays the light patterns of the user’s touch. “
SoniColumn (2006) is an interactive sound installation that can be played by touch. The installation takes the form of a column-like cylinder, of a height that does not quite reach the ceiling but just high enough to reach. Grids of LEDs installed inside the column light themselves on by the users’ touch and emit unique sounds. When a user cranks the handle, the column slowly rotates itself and plays the light patterns of the user’s touch. “
MusicBox (2004) is the third object in The Music Box Project . It is a sound instrument that integrates an installation with interactions over the Internet. The physical installation consists of an old-fashioned music box with a crank handle, in which the pins have been replaced with LEDs and the notes with photo sensors for user interaction.
MusicBox (2004) is the third object in The Music Box Project . It is a sound instrument that integrates an installation with interactions over the Internet. The physical installation consists of an old-fashioned music box with a crank handle, in which the pins have been replaced with LEDs and the notes with photo sensors for user interaction.