LGD, OLED Digital Art Exhibition with Royal College of Art in the UK

OLED Canvas Utilization: 'Luminous' Exhibition Held

On the 28th (local time) at the digital art exhibition 'Luminous' held in London, UK, visitors are seen appreciating the artwork 'Invisible Reinvention,' created by connecting four 55-inch curved OLED panels from LG Display vertically and horizontally. (Photo by LG Display)

[Asia Economy Reporter Moon Chaeseok] LG Display announced on the 29th that it held an OLED digital art exhibition in London in collaboration with the Royal College of Art (RCA), the UK's representative art graduate school.

LG Display announced that the art exhibition is being held from the previous day (local time) until the 4th of next month at the 'Old Street Gallery' in central London. The exhibition is named 'Luminous' to emphasize the use of OLED, where each pixel emits its own light, as an art canvas.

The exhibition was organized by LG Display and the Royal College of Art to highlight OLED's excellent image quality, transparency like glass, and flexible technological innovations. It is also a project to discover and support next-generation media artists. RCA master's and doctoral students created digital art using OLED at all stages from concept to planning, creation, and exhibition, and the top five works were displayed at the gallery.

Among the works, the piece titled 'Invisible Reinvention,' which connects four 55-inch curved OLED panels vertically and horizontally, vividly expresses the movement of microorganisms observed under a microscope through a wave-shaped three-dimensional screen.

Works utilizing transparent OLED panels also attracted attention. The piece 'Time-flux' arranges four transparent OLED panels in a row to create a hologram effect that appears to float media art content representing time in the air. 'ALPHA[BETA]' is an interactive work composed of two transparent OLED panels that instantly scan visitors' brainwaves for viewing.

The work titled 'A Room with a View' uses two connected 55-inch OLED panels as a screen to allow viewers to experience virtual reality video content with OLED's clear image quality. The piece 'Behaviours' expresses OLED's unique 'perfect black.' It accurately shows the subtle movement of black charcoal powder changing according to sound vibrations.

Danielle Barrios-O'Neill, Head of the Design Department at the Royal College of Art, said, "OLED is the optimal art canvas that inspires artistic creativity," adding, "Through collaboration with LG Display, a leader in OLED technology, we were able to experience new possibilities that media art can reach."

Jin Mingyu, Head of Life Display Promotion at LG Display, said, "OLED panels accurately reproduce the colors intended by the original creator without distortion or exaggeration," and added, "Based on innovative form factors that are transparent or flexible, OLED is emerging as the optimal art canvas in the global digital art scene."

Major museums and art galleries worldwide, including the Smithsonian Museum and Guggenheim Museum in the United States and the Victoria and Albert Museum in the UK, have held exhibitions and events using transparent OLED panels. The world's first transparent OLED NFT artwork, 'Important Memories of Humanity,' created in collaboration with global media artist Refik Anadol, attracted global digital art attention when it was auctioned for $6.2 million (approximately 8 billion KRW) earlier this year.