This program is designed to discover and support emerging artists in the field of convergence art through the cooperation of the Art Collider Lab of the Convergence Art Center at the Korea National University of Arts and Seongbuk Art Commons of the Seongbuk Museum of Art (under the Seongbuk Cultural Foundation), with the goal of expanding region-based discourse on contemporary convergence art.

The Art Collider Lab at the Korea National University of Arts Convergence Art Center has operated the production-concept “Emerging Convergence Artist Creation Program” to discover and support experimental creative research on ‘media as a convergence of art, technology, and culture’ within the university. This program consists of <Creative Support>, which presents topics of discourse on contemporary art and technology and supports the creative research of emerging convergence artists, and <Showcase>, which presents and exchanges processes and results. The theme for 2020 was ‘Human Scale,’ and the program was composed of ① Education on Creation/Production Methods (Mentoring), ② Creative Grants, and ③ Creative Exchange. In particular, the ① Education on Creation/Production Methods (Mentoring),newly established this year, was aligned with the theme of ‘Human Scale’ regarding ‘changes in the perceptual realm due to technological advancement’; it consisted of three classes—Projection Mapping (Jung Su-bong) which projects the virtual onto reality through media, AR (Nam Ki-ryung) which connects reality and the virtual through the window of mobile devices, and VR (Park Dong-jun) which produces virtual spaces we will newly create—conducted over the month of July, and in August, mentoring tailored to each participant’s project was provided. Emerging artists who participated in <Creative Support> presented their total of six months of research and experiments at the <Showcase>.

Seongbuk Art Commons of the Seongbuk Museum of Art (Seongbuk Cultural Foundation) is the first branch of the Seongbuk Museum of Art, established to establish itself as a venue to prepare for the future together with creators of diverse genres. Since its establishment in 2013, it has continued sustainable attempts to discover creative and experimental emerging artists and, further, to create an open art culture based on the local community. Among them, the “Seongbuk N Artist Open Call” is Seongbuk Art Commons' representative program, which continues for the new experimental processes and support of artists. From 2020, it has been proceeding by composing <Exhibition Program NEXT> for future art creation support and discourse generation, <Creator Incubation Program NEW> to support new creators in connection with art universities, and <Creative Support Forum N-table> to discuss contemporary creation.As the purposes of these institutions were connected, this Art Collider Lab <Showcase> was held as “Scale, Scanning” in conjunction with Seongbuk Art Commons’ <NEW> and <N-table>. Through such linkage between an art school and an art institution, the entire process from creative ideas for artworks to the process and presentation of results was supported and showcased.