Heritage Art Link

A WebXR point-cloud exhibition of Korean Nongak heritage

About the exhibition

Heritage Art Link is a browser-based exhibition that preserves the motion of Nongak — Korean community farmers' music, dance, and ritual, inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2014 — as three-dimensional light. Thirty-seven performances were recorded with Kinect depth sensors, and each captured movement is rendered as a point-cloud sculpture: thousands of luminous points tracing a drummer's spin, a dancer's leap, the flick of a sangmo streamer.

Visitors walk among the 37 motion sculptures arranged in a great ring inside a virtual heritage hall, on any device — desktop browser, phone, or fully immersive VR and AR headsets through WebXR. The exhibition unfolds in phases: an approach through a hanok gate, the main ring where each sculpture performs its recorded motion in place, and a finale in which the archive coalesces — visitors can select individual performances, scrub through their timelines, and read bilingual captions describing each heritage motion.

The work is participatory: in the finale's void, visitors' interactions leave sediment — accumulating traces shared in real time between everyone present — and coalesced sculptures can be archived and shared by link, each one a visitor-made record of the encounter between heritage motion and digital space.

Why Nongak, why point clouds

Intangible heritage lives in bodies, not objects. When a performance ends, what remains is memory and notation — neither of which carries the weight, speed, and volume of a moving body. Depth-camera capture holds onto exactly that: not an image of the performer, but the spatial fact of the movement itself. Rendering these recordings as point clouds is a deliberate choice — the figure is present but porous, luminous but incomplete, the way transmitted tradition itself is: carried forward, always partially, by each new body that learns it.

Technology

Motion capture: Microsoft Kinect depth sensing, 37 recorded performances
Rendering: WebGL point clouds (Three.js / React Three Fiber), GPU skinning
Immersion: WebXR — VR and AR sessions on supporting headsets and phones
Captions: bilingual (Korean/English) heritage descriptions with AI-assisted translation
Shared presence: realtime sediment traces between concurrent visitors

This work includes AI-generated imagery, disclosed in accordance with Korean AI-content transparency guidance.

About the artist

Daha Kim (김다하) is a Korean digital media artist, writer, and artistic researcher whose practice examines how data, digital media, and cultural heritage translate into physical and formative experience. Recent solo exhibitions include The Physical Translation of Data: An Experiment in the Formative Qualities of Deposition and Text (Chungjang22, Gwangju, 2026) and Research on Digital Media Art (and Cultural Heritage); Deconstruction of Boundaries and Fluidity (Commons Field Daejeon, 2026). Selected group exhibitions include Breathing with the Chaos: Berlin Edition (P61 Gallery, Berlin, 2026), NFT R.I.P. (Uncommon Gallery, Seoul, 2025), and the Digital Art Culture Lab Showcase Orbit of Light (Gwangju Media Art Platform, 2025). Kim also writes exhibition criticism, including commissioned reviews for the Korean Cultural Centre UK and Gwangju Media Art Platform's art-writing program, published on Aliceon.

More writing and exhibition records: blog.dahakimlab.com · Contact: artistdahakim@gmail.com

헤리티지 아트 링크

한국 농악 유산의 WebXR 포인트 클라우드 전시

전시 소개

헤리티지 아트 링크는 2014년 유네스코 인류무형문화유산 대표목록에 등재된 농악 — 공동체의 음악과 춤, 의례 — 의 움직임을 3차원의 빛으로 보존하는 브라우저 기반 전시입니다. 37개의 연행을 키넥트(Kinect) 깊이 센서로 기록하고, 포착된 각 움직임을 포인트 클라우드 조각으로 렌더링합니다. 수천 개의 빛나는 점이 상쇠의 회전을, 무용수의 도약을, 상모 돌리기의 궤적을 그려냅니다.

관람객은 데스크톱 브라우저, 휴대폰, 그리고 WebXR을 통한 몰입형 VR·AR 헤드셋 등 어떤 기기에서든 가상 전시 홀 안에 거대한 원형으로 배열된 37개의 모션 조각 사이를 거닐 수 있습니다. 전시는 한옥 문을 지나는 진입, 각 조각이 기록된 움직임을 재생하는 메인 링, 그리고 아카이브가 응결하는 피날레의 단계로 전개됩니다. 개별 연행을 선택하고 타임라인을 탐색하며 각 유산 동작에 대한 한/영 해설을 읽을 수 있습니다.

이 작업은 참여형입니다. 피날레의 보이드에서 관람객의 상호작용은 퇴적물로 남아 동시 접속한 모든 이들과 실시간으로 공유되며, 응결된 조각은 링크로 아카이브하고 공유할 수 있습니다.

작가 소개

김다하(Daha Kim)는 데이터, 디지털 미디어, 문화유산이 물리적·조형적 경험으로 번역되는 방식을 탐구하는 디지털 미디어 아티스트, 작가, 예술 연구자입니다. 개인전 《데이터의 물성 번역: 퇴적과 텍스트의 조형성 실험》(충장22, 광주, 2026), 《디지털 미디어 아트(그리고 문화유산)에 관한 연구; 경계의 해체와 유동성》(커먼즈필드 대전, 2026)을 열었으며, 《Breathing with the Chaos: Berlin Edition》(P61 갤러리, 베를린, 2026) 등 다수의 그룹전에 참여했습니다.

본 콘텐츠는 문화체육관광부와 한국콘텐츠진흥원, 광주정보문화산업진흥원의 2026 광주콘텐츠코리아랩 운영사업 지원을 받아 제작되었습니다.
This content was produced with support from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Creative Content Agency, through the 2026 Gwangju Content Korea Lab program operated by the Gwangju Information & Culture Industry Promotion Agency.