The exhibition Crossing Grounds: Art, Design, and Technology features 16 research projects from 22 participants, including artists, architects, designers, scientists, engineers, and technologists from Georgia Institute of Technology. These works are presented at the Korea Foundation Gallery in Seoul.
Curated by Hojin Kwon and Birnie Robert, with Santana Nash's assistance, the exposition demonstrates how new technologies are transforming the ways we create, perceive, and inhabit the world. The works cover architecture, robotics, artificial intelligence, materials science, digital fabrication, interactive media, and music, exploring the interaction between tools, materials, and knowledge across disciplinary boundaries.
The exhibition is structured around three interconnected themes: Ground, Passage, and Exchange. Here, translation is viewed as a creative act: images become buildings, archaeological fragments transform into interactive environments, traditional craft practices merge with computational design, and data is converted into material, spatial, and sensory experiences.
Crossing Grounds does not view technology merely as an automation tool; instead, it analyzes how technological systems can expand creative practice and forge new connections between people, materials, culture, and the environment.
Architecture plays a key role in the exhibition. Six projects from the Georgia Tech School of Architecture focus on design and fabrication based on visual data, computer vision, computational geometry, digital heritage, material craft, and new forms of architectural representation. Together, they show how computation extends architectural practice beyond the conventional links between geometry, representation, and material production.
A project presented in partnership with the Korea Foundation and Georgia Institute of Technology promotes broader cultural exchange between Atlanta and Seoul.
The event takes place at the Korea Foundation Gallery, KF Global Center, Seoul, South Korea, from July 28 to September 11, 2026. Hojin Kwon and Birnie Robert serve as curators, with Santana Nash as assistant curator. Admission is free.