Samsung Electronics 'The Wall' Media Art Contest Final Winning Works Announced

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Hyewon] Samsung Electronics announced the final winners of 'The Wall' media art contest, which began on January 30, on the 29th.

The Wall is a micro LED-based modular screen that is called the next-generation display because it has no restrictions on not only image quality but also size, aspect ratio, resolution, and bezel.

Samsung Electronics held the contest from January 30 to March 30 with digital art curation specialist company 'NIO' under the theme of 'Digital Realism' to discover talents in the digital art field and showcase original artworks through The Wall.

Over two months, a total of 494 works were submitted from 59 countries worldwide, with participation from various digital content creators continuing.

The grand prize was awarded to 'Areo Gardens I ? Attraction' by Dev Harlan from the United States, which depicts a stone sculpture garden against the backdrop of Gale Crater on Mars.

Dev Harlan's work expressed an invisible force causing large rocks to collide in the Martian desert garden that defies physical laws including gravity, and was highly praised for its surreal artistic quality.

Dev Harlan said, "I am proud and happy to receive the grand prize at the Samsung The Wall content contest," adding, "Thanks to The Wall's outstanding image quality technology, artists around the world will be able to newly express their imagination on a larger canvas."

The gold prize went to 'Ho Me' by Ohad Benit and Roni Azgad from Israel, which reinterprets the relationship between humans and machines, and the silver prize was awarded to 'The Gallery' by Alex McLeod from Canada, which expresses the environment as an art exhibition.

Samsung Electronics plans to specially exhibit the major winning works at The Wall showcases worldwide, including Korea, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Thailand.

Ha Hye-seung, Executive Vice President of Samsung Electronics' Visual Display Business, said, "This contest is an example that showed new possibilities of The Wall as a media art platform," and added, "We will continue to make various efforts to expand The Wall's user experience."

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