Reimagining Hwadam
AI와 다시 걷는 화담숲
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About the campaign
To let people experience Hwadam Botanic Garden's nature and stories through a fresh sense rather than a familiar view, 'Reimagining Hwadam' combined human imagination with AI-generated technology. It rendered 'Where Hwadam Dreams' and 'Hwadam at Night' across a five-sided space in 72 million pixels of high-resolution imagery, creating the immersive feeling of walking through an imagined forest. Rather than simply replicating real nature, it reimagined it through AI and media art, expanding the reach of Hwadam's experience beyond reality itself.
AI summary
Reimagining Hwadam is an AI-driven immersive media art experience at Hwadam Botanic Garden, Korea, built from two original works: Where Hwadam Dreams and Hwadam at Night. Rendered in Korean folk-painting style across a 25×10×7m pavilion, the project turns four walls and one floor into 72 million pixels of moving paintings. A hybrid human–AI pipeline let the creative team expand beyond a single 16:9 screen into a fully spatial, 8.2-channel immersive artwork.
Cultural context
The imagery draws on minhwa, Korean folk painting known for its bold color, flattened perspective, and symbolic animals and plants — a tradition the project translates into a walkable, moving canvas.