12th International Symposium on Display Holography

Exhibition Background

Organized by the Hologram Forum and Kwangwoon University with support from ISMA, ICDC, KETI, ETRI, and KOCCA, ISDH2023 was an experimental stage where academia and creators showed holography’s artistic potential and the synergy of art and science. Serving on the Art Committee and exhibiting, Jaeeon Byun demonstrated that holography can carry emotion and narrative beyond mere technical achievement.

The symposium brought scientists, engineers, and artists onto the same stage for papers, demos, and exhibitions. Attendees experienced holography as a “language” rather than just a tool, with education sessions linked to the exhibition to offer emerging practitioners practical guidance.

Artwork: Boundaries of Digital and Analog — Wings embracing a Phoenix

This work lays out a hanbok’s fiber material—and the historical stories and cultural value woven into it—like a circuit, then fuses it with a central hologram to overturn the idea that holography must be confined to metal or mechanical frames. A hanbok (Korean traditional clothes), both everyday and symbolic, locks in with digital signals, while a 3D hologram of the Baekje Gilt-Bronze Incense Burner (about 62 cm tall, built from a dragon base, lotus body, mountain cap, and phoenix finial) anchors the center. The composition reads as wings embracing a phoenix: circuit patterns and the fiery bird bind into one image, and the burner’s near-lost discovery story surfaces as viewers shift angle and depth.

Here the hanbok stands for the spectrum of Korean traditional dress—from daily wear to ceremonial splendor—suggesting that holography can seep into everyday life and memory, not just distant sci-fi tech. As many researchers and companies pivot toward VR/AR and lose sight of holography’s potential, this piece insists the medium can be rediscovered within lived histories and daily contexts.