Busan Museum of Art will present the international digital media art platform《Loop Lab Busan 2026》across the city of Busan from April 16 to June 28, 2026.
 
The museum introduces the event as a media art platform that explores the future possibilities of art at the intersection of technology and humanity, while presenting a structure in which exhibitions, forums, and art programs across the city are organically interconnected.

The accompanying programs, organized alongside the exhibition, are designed not merely for the appreciation of artworks, but also to examine the current state of Asian moving images and the structural transformations of art within the digital environment. These related programs will unfold sequentially from April 22 to April 25.
 
Busan Museum of Art has stated that, through the Asian Curators Forum linked to《Moving on Asia》, it seeks to proactively reconsider the value of Asian video art, while the subsequent artist talks and symposium will address the relationships among artworks, technology, circulation, and capital.
 
 

Asian Curators Forum

Wednesday, April 22, 11:00–14:00, Domoheon

The first program to take place is the Asian Curators Forum, held at Domoheon on April 22. Busan Museum of Art introduces this forum as an academic program under the theme “The Future of Asian Moving Images,” explaining that 16 curators from 13 Asian countries will participate in order to reassess, from an active and self-determined perspective, the value and direction of Asian video art.
 
According to the official announcement, the forum is organized in connection with《Moving on Asia》and takes as its major thematic axes issues such as ethnofuturism and singularity, meta-narrative, collective memory, and latent conflict.

The list of presenters in this forum includes Wang Hanfang, Wang Weiwei, Rahmadiya Tria Gayatria, Padly Sabran, Tada Kaori, Lee Seung-a, Pimpakaphon Phonpheng, Clarissa Chikiamco, Carlos Quijon, Jessica Clark, Megan Tamati-Quennell, Oh Heyman, Bilguun Tuvshinbold, and Iris Long.
 
Wang Hanfang is an independent curator from Taiwan who recently participated in the co-curation of an exhibition at the New Taipei City Art Museum, while Wang Weiwei serves as curator of exhibitions and collections at CHAT in Hong Kong.
 
Tada Kaori holds a doctorate in Film and New Media from Tokyo University of the Arts and previously worked with the curatorial team and as a curator for the Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions, organized by the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum.
 
Clarissa Chikiamco is introduced as a curator at National Gallery Singapore and a doctoral researcher at King’s College London, and has co-curated exhibitions dealing with early video installation practices in Southeast Asia.
 
Carlos Quijon is known as an art historian, critic, and curator based between Manila and New York, while Megan Tamati-Quennell has long worked on Maori and First Nations contemporary art. Iris Long is introduced as an independent curator who studies the relationship between art and computing.
 
Accordingly, this program can be understood not as a venue that categorizes Asia within a simple regional framework, but rather as a forum that constructs a complex field of discourse where images and memory, locality and technology, geopolitics and narrative intersect. If the exhibition is the format through which artworks are presented, this forum is closer to an academic apparatus that provides a conceptual framework for interpreting those works.
 

 
Artist Talks 1 & 2

Friday, April 24, 10:30–12:00, Space Wonji

On the morning of April 24, two artist talks will be held consecutively at Space Wonji. These programs feature Cristina Lucas and Lucia Rebolino.《Shared Stories》addresses the present and future of Spanish video art while examining how the moving image reconstructs memory and history, while《Unpredictable Atmosphere》is presented as a program exploring transformations in information and knowledge within the digital ecosystem, as well as altered ways of reading climate models.

Cristina Lucas was born in Jaén, Spain, in 1973 and is based in Madrid. She has worked across a range of media, including video, installation, drawing, and performance, addressing political and economic structures, mechanisms of power, and the contradictions between official history and collective memory.
 
Lucia Rebolino is introduced as an artist and computational designer who explores digital aesthetics through the convergence of science and art, and is currently engaged in research and design practices connected to Forensic Architecture in London.
 
Through different points of entry, narrative in one case and data in the other, the work of these two figures demonstrates that the digital image is not merely a screen-based surface, but a structure of social perception and interpretation.
 


Artist Talk 3

Friday, April 24, 12:30–14:30, Lee & Bae Gallery

Later that day, from 12:30 p.m.,《The Resolution of Landscape》by WHYIXD will take place at Lee & Bae Gallery.
 
This program expands the notion of landscape beyond the simple representation of external nature, instead extending it to the very question of how human beings perceive and interpret their environment. WHYIXD gathers invisible elements such as the sea, wind, voltage, and subtle environmental signals, then transforms them into a sculptural language of light and movement through algorithms and programming, redefining the concept of resolution from the sharpness of an image to the density of perception.

WHYIXD is introduced as a Taiwan-based new media art group. Working within the language of light art, installation, and kinetic art, the team has continued to transform the invisible data of nature and the city into visual and spatial experiences. In that sense, this talk functions as a presentation of digital landscape not as a representation of physical nature, but as a new visual-perceptual form in which data, sensation, and inner experience are organized together.


 
Artist Talk 4

Friday, April 24, 15:00–17:00, Seokcheon Hall, F1963

The final program on April 24 is the artist talk by AES+F, to be held from 3:00 p.m. at Seokcheon Hall in F1963. This program has been introduced as a session in which the globally renowned artist group AES+F participates to discuss the contemporary significance of media art. At the core of this talk is the visual tension that emerges when digital technology converges with classical modes of image construction, and the way structures of social power and desire are revealed within that process.
 
AES+F is a four-member collective from Russia composed of Tatiana Arzamasova, Lev Evzovich, Evgeny Svyatsky, and Vladimir Fridkes. The group began in 1987 as AES and was reorganized as AES+F in 1995 when Fridkes joined. Since then, they have explored the values and conflicts of contemporary global culture at the intersection of photography, video, installation, and digital technology.
 
They gained international attention with Last Riot at the Russian Pavilion of the Venice Biennale in 2007 and have since become widely known for their large-scale multichannel video installations.
 


Art and Capital Symposium

Saturday, April 25, 14:00–16:00, Haeundae Platform

The last of the related programs is the Art and Capital Symposium, to be held on April 25 at Haeundae Platform.
 
Titled《Digital Art – Between Sharing and Ownership》, the program is presented as an examination of new experiences in digital art at the boundary between “sharing” and “ownership.”
 
This symposium demonstrates that《Loop Lab Busan 2026》does not remain confined to the presentation of new media forms alone. By addressing together the creation of value around digital images, the modes of their circulation, and the question of ownership, it expands the discussion toward the institutional and economic conditions in which contemporary art is situated. As a result, the program operates as a site that confirms that the aesthetic issues surrounding digital media art and economic reality can no longer be separated.
 
Taken as a whole, Busan Museum of Art’s related programs for《Loop Lab Busan 2026》form a structure that gradually expands the scope of the exhibition through a forum, artist talks, and a symposium. If the Asian Curators Forum on April 22 presents a theoretical frame, the artist talks on April 24 reveal the practical layers of digital media art through individual works, while the symposium on April 25 extends the discussion to the economic conditions in which these practices are embedded.
 
In that sense, these programs demonstrate that Busan Museum of Art is operating《Loop Lab Busan》not as a simple exhibition event, but as a complex platform in which the production, interpretation, circulation, and discussion of contemporary media art take place together.