Inhwa Yeom’s SAUNA LAB: Becoming Human-Fish (2025) is a multi-channel video installation linking Hong Kong’s Lo Ting merfolk folklore, microplastics, and bodily adaptation.
Category Archives: art projects
SAUNA LAB: Flowers of Hot Spring
Inhwa Yeom’s SAUNA LAB: Flowers of Hot Spring (2024) is a multi-channel video installation connecting Hualien’s hot-spring cultures, ageing, collective care, and post-extractive climate futures.
Dreaming Chandra (D.C.)
Inhwa Yeom’s 2025 media-wall video follows Chandra surfing the Neuroverse beyond labour, administration, and the official chronicle.
On My Way
On My Way is Inhwa Yeom’s ongoing VR performance environment exploring transition, movement, and the embodied sensation of being in between.
Wobble
Inhwa Yeom’s 2022 VR performance environment Wobble transforms voice and breath into forces that reshape an immersive virtual space.
Innerveauty Spa
Innerveauty Spa (2023) by Korean artist-engineer Inhwa Yeom is an XR installation on ageing, beauty, biotechnology, care, and cognitive difference.
Diva Spectra
Inhwa Yeom’s Diva Spectra (2024) is a single-channel video installation exploring light and fluid identities across material, cultural, and perceptual spectra.
Soma X Chandra
Soma X Chandra brings together Inhwa Yeom’s recurring virtual characters across XR, performance, moving image, and interactive environments.
Water on Fire series
Inhwa Yeom’s Water on Fire series (2021–25) is a single-channel video installation exploring fusion and coexistence through apparatuses and moving images.
Imposter Kitchen
Inhwa Yeom’s 2022–23 VR and installation work examines food, biotechnology, imitation, and embodied participation.
Dreaming Chandra: Still in Neuroverse
Inhwa Yeom’s Dreaming Chandra: Still in Neuroverse (2025) is a single-channel video and media façade about heterogeneous neural rhythms and coexistence.
Soma’s Garden
Inhwa Yeom’s 2023 XR and audiovisual performance environment explores embodied coexistence, planetary imagination, and shared rhythms.
Koko Killing Island: Tour d’Epicure
Koko Killing Island: Tour d’Epicure (2022) by Korean media artist Inhwa Yeom is an interactive VR installation on climate crisis, virtual tourism, consumption, and displacement.
SAUNA LAB series
Inhwa Yeom’s SAUNA LAB series (2024–25) imagines a climate-crisis research institute joining hot-spring culture, community, science, and alternative knowledge.
Solarsonic Band (Inst.)
Inhwa Yeom’s Solarsonic Band (Inst.) (2025) is a single-channel video and media façade in which climate-responsive instruments perform without human presence.
Solarsonic Band
Solarsonic Band (2024–25) by Korean media artist Inhwa Yeom is a participatory XR installation and climate rehearsal connecting virtual band members, instruments, data, and audiences.
Phantom Dining
Phantom Dining (2025) by Korean AI artist Inhwa Yeom and BiOVE is an XR installation on appetite, memory, biotechnology, care, and multisensory dining.
War Dance
War Dance (2025) is AI video art by Korean media artist Inhwa Yeom on reproductive politics, trans-parenthood, care, refusal, and Asian womxn’s realities.
Solarsonic Band: In Transit
Inhwa Yeom’s Solarsonic Band: In Transit (2026) transforms Incheon Airport’s 77.2 × 4.3 m panoramic LED screen into a journey of climate adaptation.
Takeaway: Love, Peace, Hospitality
Inhwa Yeom’s 2026 mixed-media installation at Incheon Airport asks what humanity must carry into a new world: love, peace, and hospitality. 염인화의 인천공항 설치작품.
Chandra Chronicles: in Neuroverse
Chandra Chronicles by Korean media artist Inhwa Yeom is an AI/XR art series on neural ageing, cognition, memory, care, labour, and transformation.
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Media: 3D Performative Apparatus-Environment, Variable Installation
Chandra X
Media: 3D Performative Apparatus-Environment, Variable Installation
2021 Chandra X, Art Change Up Grant, Arts Council Korea (ARKO)
Media: 3D Performative Apparatus-Environment (WebAR-VR in interoperable settings)
Chandra’s Signal
Media : Interactive game and variable installation in digital-twin based XR environment
2021 Chandra’s Signal, Laboratory Residency, Spokane-Remote
Media : Interactive game in a cross-device WebXR (WebVR-Mobile AR) environment
Media Sound Art by Paul Bazooka
Corea Impact 2020
Martial Arts x AR Projection Mapping Performance, , invited by Ministry of Culture, Sports, Tourism & Korea Creative Contents Agency (KOCCA)
💿 2021, XR-based Digital Twin Exhibition, KAIST AR Research Center
Inhwa Yeom, XR-based Digital Twin Exhibition of KAIST Vision Hall KAIST AR Research Center (ARRC) Project Website here Credit Designed, developed, maintained by Inhwa YeomSupports & Collaboration : KAIST AR Research Center, KAIST Academic Information Development Team, AST Inc.
📝 2021 IEEE VR, Digital Twin as A Mixed Reality Platform for Art Exhibition Curation
[POSTER] To be presented at 2021 IEEE VR in April [DEMO VIDEO] To be presented at 2021 IEEE VR in April Inhwa Yeom, Woontack Woo. “Digital Twin as A Mixed Reality Platform for Art Exhibition Curation”, 2021 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW), 2021
📝 2021 HCI Korea proceedings, Digital Twin Museum as a Creativity Support System for Curators
염인화(Inhwa Yeom), 윤형석(Hyongseok Yoon), 우운택(Woontack Woo). (2021). 디지털 트윈 미술관 기반 전시 창작 지원 시스템과 사용자 연구(Digital Twin Museum as a Creativity Support System for Curators). 한국HCI학회 학술대회(in proceedings of HCI Korea), 426-429. DBpia This paper proposes a digital twin-based museum exhibition planning and simulation system, with an aim to enhance arts museum curator’s capability in creating exhibitions. AlthoughContinue reading “📝 2021 HCI Korea proceedings, Digital Twin Museum as a Creativity Support System for Curators”
Project Errmoji
generative drawing based on machine learning, digital print
After Chandra
Supported by KAIST GSCT
2017 Presenter, Harvard East Asia Society Conference, Harvard University
AUTHOR of “On Image-Signs of <The Amrita Painting>(1939) at Heungcheon Temple”(2017) CONFERENCE ARCHIVES
Magic Performance × AR Projection
VIDEO & HOLOGRAM DIRECTOR, PRODUCER, TECHNOLOGIST in 6 performances of Taehong Lim & L’Illusion
2019 Invited Artist, “Impact X Festival”, Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA)
Sponsored by Korea Creative Contents Agency (KOCCA)
TechiEon
Sponsored by Korea Creative Contents Agency, Sungkyunkwan Univ. Research & Business Foundation, PMC Production
2018 Group Artist, Gyeonggi Millenium Docu-Festa《Gyeonggi Archives_now》
Sponsored by Gyeonggi Province, Gyeonggi Museum of Art
III-Iteracy
Part of “Smarter Home(2020)”, Lauren McCarthy
2018 Co-Curator & Organizer, ‘Yeji-ryeok x Bidulgi Production: Cross-Pollinated Camera Lenses” Workshop
Sponsored by Seoul Museum of Art
2018 Emerging Curator, Seoul Museum of Art
Sponsored by Seoul Museum of Art
2017-8 Chief Curator, The Novice School🏫: an artist-run alt school
RESEARCH GRANT (16M KRW) by Gyeonggi Province, Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation (GGCF) CURATOR of ‘Yeji-ryeok x Bidulgi Production: Cross-Pollinated Camera Lenses” Workshops, Seoul2018 CURATOR of ‘Road Classes’ Workshops of The Novice School, Seoul & Gyeonggi Province
2017 Seoul Young Artist, Seoul Metropolitan Government
Sponsored by Seoul Metropolitan Government for 6 exhibitions & performances