NEW 2021 [서울은 미술관] University Collaboration Public Art Project Seoul Mayor Award
Students of Kookmin University's Department of Industrial Design (team name: Speed of Seoul) won the Seoul Mayor's Award at the 2021 <Seoul Silver Art Museum> University Collaboration Public Art Project Performance Sharing Meeting held on November 19 (Fri) at the Seosomun Complex of Seoul City Hall.
The University Collaboration Public Art Project is a field-oriented public art project that induces artistic change in the city and region by injecting creative ideas led by university students into the city.
In 2021, 6 teams from 5 universities were finally selected and awarded through a free theme contest. It was exhibited in the square and on Deoksugung-gil.
A total of 20 students participated in the THE PACE OF SEOUL team (supervisor Nam Won-seok) of the Department of Industrial Design, and the project "Street to Walk, Speed of Seoul" expressed the citizens living in Seoul at their own speed and speed and movement.
The speed to be dealt with in this project is largely two, one is the speed of people traveling to and from Sejong-daero, and the other is the speed that flows differently in various aspects of Seoul.
To capture these two speeds, a kinetic art wall was planned that applied the moire phenomenon so that the movement of the walking person and the movement of the art wall interfere with each other. Muare is also called an interference pattern, and is a phenomenon that shows visual changes according to light interference when regularly repeated shapes overlap.
Through this, an expression that can interfere with each other while contrasting static and dynamic elements was devised, and designed in a structure suitable for public exhibitions.
Artwall, which expresses the appearance of various speeds existing in Seoul, consists of two layers of screens, and is conceived as a unique expression in which movements are repeated in several images by rotating the outer screen with grid patterns printed on it with a motor.
The supervisor said, "I hope it will be a good opportunity for communication between classmates who can be neglected due to COVID-19, so I recruited and applied for a team that all grades participate in, and it will be an opportunity for students to experience the characteristics of their majors and their own ways of thinking can be applied to various objects."