gluee News · 2026. 9
gluee co-runs Siheung Cultural Center's ‘Seumyeodeum Project’, closing with a touring exhibition of media art made by residents
gluee planned and ran the ‘Seumyeodeum Project’, a participatory media art program hosted by the Siheung Cultural Center. Running from June to September, the project closed with a touring exhibition of works made by the residents themselves.
The project was part of the Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation's 2026 Local Culture Everyday Arts Platform program. gluee planned and ran it together with Bohaeng Gonggan, an arts planning group based in Siheung.
Through new media art classes, Siheung residents created their own audiovisual works. They collected sounds and scenes from around the city and turned them into light and sound to complete a single piece. The program was open to everyone from high school students to middle-aged adults, and the theme was ‘The Siheung I Live In’.
Classes ran every Wednesday from June 17 to August 19, ten sessions in all. In the first session, participants watched gluee's work ‘Oido’ together and used design thinking to draft their own project plans. Visual, sound and interaction were then covered in three sessions each.
In the visual sessions, participants worked from the basics of video production to images and videos of everyday Siheung and wall projection mapping. In the sound sessions, they learned spatial audio and field recording and made music from the sounds they collected to complete their own soundscapes. In the interaction sessions, they used TouchDesigner to create interactive media art that moves their sounds and images in real time.
Classes took place in local cultural spaces including Spain Samchon, the Siheung Cultural Center, Siheung ABC Happy Learning Town and Malgeunmul Sangsang Nuri. An assistant tutor joined every session so that residents new to media art could take part in creating.
The participants' works toured Malgeunmul Sangsang Nuri, Spain Samchon and Rich Bourbon from September 5 to 20. During the exhibition, the program also offered exhibition rounds in which participants introduced their own works, outdoor screenings and an exhibition linked with performances.