2026
Artist Bio
Bin Youn (윤빈, 尹彬) is a Korean multimedia artist, researcher, and educator whose practice spans lens-based media, spatial AR installation, and participatory environments. Working across Seoul, Long Beach, and Ho Chi Minh City, she develops the Gelora series — a decade-long inquiry into diasporic embodiment, cultural displacement, and technological intimacy, in which fallen flowers are preserved, scanned, and resurrected as hybrid digital creatures through East Asian cosmological frameworks. Her work has been exhibited internationally and awarded at iNVENTX 2025 (MMU Malaysia). As Associate Lecturer and Course Coordinator at RMIT University Vietnam, she pioneers exhibition-centred pedagogy through the rễ-root framework and cross-cultural initiatives including the M-NODE Korea–Vietnam hackathon. Her research intersects posthuman kinship, intergenerational cultural memory, and regenerative approaches to AR technology.
Recent Works · Culture & Heritage
Sacred Tree 신목, 神木
2025
Exhibition
HOZO City Tết Fest 2025 — Pavilion II: CTRL+M, IMMERSIVE HOUSE
Saigon Riverside Park, Ho Chi Minh City · December 27–31, 2025
Curated by Thuy-Tien Vo & Do-Nguyen Lap-Xuan
Medium
Web-based AR installation — marker-free, browser-accessible on mobile
Concept
Five directional portals structured around 오방색 (Five Directional Colours) and the Chinese Bagua / I Ching trigrams. The phone becomes a cosmological compass; touching a trigram summons an elemental Gelora spirit — Wood (East), Fire (South), Metal (West), Water (North), Earth (Centre). Korean shamanic mythology, Chinese spatial cosmology, and Vietnamese Tết ritual activated in a single participatory gesture.
Gelora: Embodied Alienation
2024–2025
Exhibitions
iNVENTX Creative Exhibition 2025, Faculty of Creative Multimedia, MMU — Cyberjaya, Malaysia · July 2025
Beyond 1&0 Exhibition, Nina Next Space — Ho Chi Minh City · September 2025
Awards
Silver Award + Bronze Award — iNVENTX 2025, MMU Malaysia (54 peer-reviewed submissions, 5 countries)
Medium
AR installation — mobile camera as ritual instrument; four-phase elemental gesture sequence
Concept
Participants perform embodied rituals rooted in the Five Elements cosmology, dragging Wood, Fire, Metal, and Water colour-dots to resurrect Gelora creatures from preserved fallen flowers. Diaspora reframed as a generative condition; the camera recast from extractive device into vessel for collective resurrection.
Research
Foundation for ICCM 2026 paper: Gelora Mycelium Network as participatory AR system for cross-cultural interaction design
Gelora Lantern AR
2026
Context
Expanded from the Sacred Tree interface
Medium
Web-based AR — luminous seed particles, touch interaction, Gelora 3D as lồng đèn (traditional Vietnamese lanterns)
Concept
Seed particles drift in camera space; touching each awakens a Gelora creature recast as a lồng đèn — the traditional Hội An lantern. Korean diasporic mythology migrating into Vietnamese ritual form; the phone held open as portal between two cosmologies.
Pedagogy & Cross-Cultural Research
rễ-root Framework
Pedagogical framework transforming photography assessment into exhibition-centred learning. 'rễ' (Vietnamese: root) read through Korean as 're-' — re-rooting identity, heritage, and belonging. Students photograph invisible cultural systems: family, language, homeland, memory.
binyoun.github.io/reroot
M-NODE
International cross-cultural hackathon connecting Dong-Ah Institute of Media Arts (Korea) × RMIT Vietnam — a live laboratory for cultural translation as artistic and pedagogical method.
M-NODE Documentation ↗
Active Submissions
ICAIHE 2026 · ICCM 2026 · IEEE ICME 2026 · Harvard XR 2026
Research Scope
AI-enhanced creative pedagogy · participatory AR as cross-cultural learning · Korea–Vietnam student exchange
Research Threads
Diaspora & Displacement
Embodied Cosmology
Cross-Cultural Heritage
Posthuman Kinship
Regenerative Technology
Intergenerational Memory
Participatory Ritual
Exhibition-Centred Pedagogy
Bagua · 오방색 · Five Elements
Korean–Vietnamese Exchange