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Seohyo‘s interpretations of Jan van Eyeck’s Arnolfini Portrait (top) and Henri Matisse’s Two Musicians (bottom).

KOINS, a Korean teletext service on KBS TV was originally launched in January 1990, but was re-launched 18 August, 1990 according to this news segment. A year later, it was announced that the decoder hardware was delayed, so KBS made the service available through computers, according to this news segment.

Also see the Korean MBC teletext.

Munhwa Broadcasting (MBC) in Korea launched their teletext service 15 September, 1988 according to this news clip. It might have been based on the Japanese JTES teletext standard (textmode, vector, and pixel graphics) but not sure. Btw, the Korean term for teletext is 문자 다중 방송.

By Seo Hyojung, 2023. Gifs made from videos on her Instagram.

Animations by Seo Hyojung. Based on Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, Kahlo’s Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird and van Gogh’s Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear.

Video by Turtle Fingers for Interactive Art Lab. Full video here.

Alpha Bit by apangaroda, 2014. Thanks to prosthetic knowledge for the tip.

Hot typewriter setup by Ryu Hankil, here together with stuff from Choi Joonyong and Hong Chulki. Thanks to Jamie Allen for the heads up. via

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IRIS by HYBE 

Interactive installation is grid of transparent LEDs which display halftone and circular patterns whose display can emulate it’s viewers.

A week ago, I covered a New Media exhibition in Seoul called ‘The Da Vinci Ideas Exhibition’ and was intrigued by this piece, hoping there would be a video of it. Well, the brilliant Creative Applications discovered it, which you can watch in the embed below:

Created by Korena collective HYBE, IRIS is a media canvas with matrix of conventional information display technology, that is a monochrome LCD.Through the phased opening and closing of circular black liquid crystal, IRIS can create various patterns and control the amount (size) of passing lights.

More Info and images can be found at Creative Applications here