knovcompile — New Media Art Group, Seoul

Profile

knovcompile is a media artist group exploring a new sensory language of new media art through sound, light and digital image. Crossing the boundary between technology and art, the group creates immersive spatial experiences that fuse the visual and the auditory.

Its work is grounded in integrated solutions that bring together programming, sound design and interactive systems — audience-centered content made to be experienced by anyone. Within a rapidly evolving new media environment, the group holds sustainability and stability as core values, translating shifting technological currents into an artistic language.

In knovcompile’s experiments, sound and light combine to transform physical space into a ‘moving presence’ — a practice that continues to expand into an artistic inquiry organizing abstract structure and sensory immersion at once.

Materials
LightLaser · LED · Lighting Design
SoundComposition · Mixing & Mastering
SystemTouchDesigner Real-Time Control · Motion Tracking · Sensor Interaction
StructureStructural Design · Fabrication · Installation
Exhibitions & Stages
Movement — for Breguet TraditionAudio-Visual Installation, Commission · 2026 — A cube and LED installation interpreting the movement of a watch through light and sound ––
겹,빛,간 : 시 (Over, Light, Space : Diffusion)Convergence Art with Modern Dance · 2025 — An ‘architecture of the senses’ completed as light, sensation and emotion overlap. A contemporary dance performance redefining space within the gap between digital perception and the human ––
Invariable (2025 Power Plant Seoul)Convergence Art with Ballet · 2025 — A standalone performance at Power Plant Seoul. A multidisciplinary media art ballet fusing the essence of space, time and light to ask what value remains unchanged ––
Threshold of Depth (Adidas CONFIRMED, Frieze Seoul)A/V Performance · 2025 — A laser artwork for Frieze Seoul 2025. An audiovisual show tracing the moment a plane expands into dimensional space through the intersection of surfaces and lines ––
DepletedSite-Specific Media Art · 2024 — The second series of PROJECT EMERGE. Recomposing a decommissioned tank lorry in Hwaseong with light and sound, redefining ‘depletion’ as ‘an emptying toward renewal’ ––
InvariableConvergence Art with Ballet · 2023 — A multidisciplinary performance at Unfold X 2023. A media art ballet fusing the essence of space, time and light to ask what value remains unchanged ––
Over, Light, Space (겹,빛,간)Convergence Art with Modern Dance · 2022 — A performance in which a dancer drifts through a structure of light built by two laser scanners, rendering the gap between the real and the virtual tangible ––
DimensionLive A/V Performance · 2020 — An audiovisual performance at Prectxe 2020. A lighting installation extending one dimension into three with three lasers in a 6m void ––
DesertionSite-Specific Media Art · 2020 — Part of the PROJECT EMERGE series. Site-specific media art reinterpreting the grid structure of an abandoned building on Ganghwa Island with moving lights and sound ––
ReconstructiveLive A/V Performance · 2020 — Invited to MUTEK Montreal 2020. A 20-minute live performance reconstructing the narrative of Bucheon Art Bunker B39 in layers of laser, graphics and sound ––
Decomposed (Live)Live A/V Performance · 2020 — Prectxe 2020, Bucheon Art Bunker B39. A real-time sonic reinterpretation of the installation, turning a static exhibition into a live stage ––
DecomposedLaser Artwork · 2020 — Set in a fabric factory in Namyangju, visualizing the decomposition and recombination of resources through reflective displays and geometric graphics ––
HelixLaser Artwork · 2020 — A laser study. An audiovisual experiment controlling the visual dissonance between the naked eye and the camera sensor · origin of the series ––
Selected Clients

Breguet, Disney Korea, Netflix, Mercedes-Benz, ADIDAS, HYBE, YG Entertainment, SM Entertainment, OLIVE YOUNG, LANEIGE, ETRO, LUSH, VANS, BENETTON, CASS, SHINSEGAE, KB Financial Group, POSCO, Hyundai Motor Company, Hyundai Department Store, NAVER Webtoon, JoongAng Ilbo, La Roche-Posay, CALLAWAY, FOOTJOY, National Museum of Korea, Busan Cultural Foundation and others

35 Projects, 2019–2026 — Commercial ↗

Recognition
Selected2025 Arts Council Korea (ARKO) Multidisciplinary Arts Creation Program · 2025 Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Convergence Arts Support Program · 2022 ARKO Art & Technology Convergence Showcase ––
Invited2025 Frieze Seoul (Adidas Confirmed) · 2023 Unfold X — Seoul Convergence Arts Festival · 2020 MUTEK Montreal · 2019 Prectxe Digital Art Festival ––
Discography
Over, Light, Space : DiffusionAlbum · 2025. 12 · 13 tracks — 〈겹,빛,간 : 시〉 Official Soundtrack ––
Invariable — Knovcompile, Vol. 1EP · 2024. 12 · 4 tracks — 〈Invariable〉 Official Soundtrack ––
PerpetualSingle · 2025. 04 — Invariable ––
DepletedSingle · 2025. 02 — Project Emerge ––
MovementOriginal Score · 2026 — for Breguet Tradition · Unreleased ––
Contact
EMAIL: [email protected]Exhibition · Stage · Brand Collaboration ––