Art Creation Support 2020 : Human Scale

The 2020 <Art Creation Support> is composed of three parts: ➀ Art Creation Education (mentoring), ➁ Art Creation Grant, ➂ Art Creation Exchange. It aims to address the discourses relevant to contemporary convergence art and support art creations in line with it.

The 2020 <Art Creation Support> theme was “Human Scale.” Human scale refers to a physical scale, based on the human body, to consider when designing a space or object. With the development of the media technology environment, we stepped into the expanded area, going beyond the previous physical limit. The diversifying discourse of the era following the flow proceeds the discussions on diversity. Under this theme, Center for Art Convergence aimed to discover and support creations and discourse research that explore the new experience and interpretation of contemporary media ecology and environment, diverse body and perception, and the identities floating in it by leaving the old concept of the human scale.

• Participants: bachelor/master students at Korea National University of Arts

• Application Period: 2020. 3. 16. (Mon) - 4. 12.(Sun)

• Application : Send an email to karts.ac@gmail.com with your application form and portfolio attached.

Program details, including the title, number of participants, grant, and showcase, have been updated. This reform was researched and planned based on the survey results collected from the former participants from 2016 to 2019. We thank all the participants for their opinions.

1. We changed the program title to <Convergence Art Emerging Artist Creation Program>, to solidify the program’s purpose, which is to “discover and support the creation and research of convergence art at the experimental stage” and specify the support area and target.

2. The art creation grants and the number of participants have been increased.

- Art creation grant: max. ₩2,000,000 per individual or group → max. ₩3,000,000

- Number of participants: 8 person(team) → 10 person(team)

3. The new program, “Art Creation Education (mentoring),” has been set up and systematized.

- New classes for the programs required for the production of media art such as VR, AR, projection mapping

- Systemized education method switching from foundational education to the production mentoring stage

4. To enhance the quality of the <Showcase>, presentation venues are provided depending on the format of the project outcome.

- Exhibition → Seongbuk Museum of Art, Seongbuk Young Art Space

- Performance → Miarigogae Arts Theater

· Art Creation Research

Art creation research based on media technology: Interactive Art, Interactive Design, Algorithmic Art, Generative Art, Audio Visual, Electronic Music, AR/VR/MR Contents, Video Art, Media Performance, etc.

· Discourse ResearchMulti-disciplinary approach to the cultural phenomena and artwork theory research across art, technology and media: Midiology, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Life, Bio Art, Techno Feminism, Art/Alt Game, DIY, Maker Movement, Appropriate Technology, Media Education/Literacy, etc.