Linz, Austria ©Gwangyang City
Gwangyang City will host the media art exchange exhibition “8637 from Light” from October 2 to 10 in collaboration with the Ars Electronica Center, which hosts the world’s largest new media art festival, Ars Electronica.
“8637 from Light” will be held in Gwangyang City, including Gwangyang City Hall. The number ‘8637’ in the title refers to the distance between Gwangyang city and Linz, Austria. The two cities, which share the commonality of being steel hubs, have been sister cities since 1991 and have been exchanging in various fields such as culture and arts. The first fruit of this relationship is the media art exchange exhibition “8637 from Light” in October.
In 1979, Ars Electronica began as a program designed to explore the possibilities of a new city of the future in order to find a way out of the steel industry’s downturn after the oil shock of the 1970s. The festival is for art, technology, and society.
The Ars Electronica Linz GmbH, which organizes the festival, is responsible for the festival, the Future Lab, various exhibitions and symposiums, and the animation festival, and through various projects such as the convergence of science and art, as well as bridging the traditional character of the region with the changed sense of contemporary, it is presenting future images and topics of the new era.
