Ars Electronica Festival · 2018
489 Years
by Hayoun KWON
🏆 Award of Distinction · Prix Ars Electronica 2018
“489 Years” by Hayoun KWON received an Award of Distinction in the Computer Animation category of the Prix Ars Electronica 2018.
*489 Years* shows an animated landscape of the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea, based on the narration of a former soldier who had entered the DMZ–one of the most dangerous and heavily armed places in the world.
About Hayoun KWON
Hayoun Kwon (KR), born in 1981, is a multimedia artist and documentary director. She graduated from Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains in 2011 and she lives and works in France and in Korea.
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