Gwangju Nam-gu, Media Wall 'Media Art Exhibition Artists' Open Recruitment

Nam-gu, Gwangju Metropolitan City, is preparing a contest to promote cultural and artistic exchange with media art artists active nationwide and to expand opportunities for local residents to enjoy culture by utilizing the Baegun Square Media Wall, a hub of digital art.

On the 20th, Nam-gu announced, "We are publicly recruiting '2024 Media Art Exhibition Artists' so that various artists and organizations can participate in the process of broadcasting works on the Baegun Square Media Wall," adding, "Through this, we plan to support the vigorous creative activities of artists and provide diverse visual content to local residents."

The recruitment of media art exhibition artists for the Baegun Square Media Wall is the first contest held for media art artists since the media wall opened in February last year.

As the Baegun Square area is becoming a landmark of Gwangju through a large-scale urban regeneration project, the strong interest and positive response to the media wall had a significant impact. Building on this achievement, the intention is to firmly establish the Baegun Square Media Wall as a main stage for cultural and artistic exchange.

To this end, Nam-gu recently announced the media art exhibition artist contest plan on the Nam-gu Office website and contest platforms such as ‘Allcon’ and ‘Singyou’ to secure high-quality works from media art artists active nationwide.

In particular, while highly appreciating the artists’ agony, passion, and effort contained in the works, they decided to pay up to 15 million KRW in rental fees for the works, along with broadcasting the works on the highly competitive Baegun Square Media Wall, to encourage continued active creative activities in the future.

This contest is open to individual media art artists or teams who have completed business registration.

The theme of the works is free, with a preference for popular works that provide local residents with visual enjoyment as well as artistic appreciation.

Each participating artist or team must submit five or more media art videos they own, and the work specifications are video files such as Full-HD or higher MP4, MOV with sound.

Work submissions will be accepted for three days from March 4 to 6, and the selection results will be announced at the end of March after the final review.

The three selected artists (teams) will sign separate lease contracts in the future, and for any other inquiries, detailed information can be obtained by contacting the Resident Happiness Officer at Nam-gu Office.

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.