Since the opening of the new government building in October 2012, Seoul Metropolitan City has been organizing various exhibition programs in collaboration with citizens, aimed at transforming it into a cultural space for empathy and communication. This year, it has launched the “2024 Seoul City Hall Media Art Competition” to provide the public with the opportunity to experience various forms of media art in their everyday life.

The second exhibition of the competition, Time Travel for Seoul features six works by four artist-teams that capture the diversity of the city's scenery and landscape. This exhibition suggests a “journey” around Seoul, offering citizens a moment of relaxation and rediscovering the city's fascinating landscape through these works: Metroband: Seoul captures the futuristic charm of Seoul through the city's skyline, Seoul: The Beauty of the Four Seasons, a new interpretation of historical significance and traditional culture through the four seasons of Gyeongbokgung Palace, Gate of Light, which expresses the hope of the city by replacing the landmark Gwanghwamun Gate with light, and Hyusim: 休心 series, the landscape of a new resting space created by the difference between diverse perspectives of Seoul's past, present, and future.

Sewon Jeon integrates various mediums to explore the new sounds and visual effects that emerge from their interaction and the sensations they evoke. Sungwon Lee (LEE SUNG STUDIO) is a media artist who primarily creates interactive artworks. He has conducted research into the interactions between different entities like sound and video, people and sound, and people and video, producing audiovisual elements based on data gathered through technologies like multimodal AI (computer vision).

Gate of Light is a media art video inspired by the Gwanghwamun Gate—the main gate of Gyeongbokgung Palace. The work features particles that float freely across the evening sky, sometimes dispersing and sometimes clustering together. It expresses the hope and bright future of Seoul by depicting its landmark, Gwanghwamun Gate, through the movement of these shining particles.