Hyundai Motor Group Selects Artist Wendy Yan as Grand Prize Winner of the VH Award

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Hyundai Motor Group announced on the 18th that on the 17th (local time), it revealed the grand prize winner of the 6th VH Award and exhibited the finalist works at the House of Electronic Arts, a media art institution in Basel, Switzerland.

Hyundai Motor Group announced on the 18th that on the 17th (local time), it revealed the grand prize winner of the 6th VH Award and exhibited the finalist works at the House of Electronic Arts, a media art institution in Basel, Switzerland. Hyundai Motor

The VH Award, which began in 2016, is a competition created by Hyundai Motor Group to discover next-generation media artists and support their artistic challenges and growth.

This year, the grand prize was awarded to Wendy Yan, an artist and technologist from Beijing. In addition to a production grant of $25,000 (approximately 34 million KRW), she also received an additional $25,000 for her next project. Wendy Yan received high praise from the judges for her new work, which reinterprets the knowledge exchange between Asia and Europe in the 18th century through computer-generated imagery (CGI).

Before announcing the grand prize, Hyundai Motor Group also held a presentation showcasing new works by the competition's finalists, including Wendy Yan.

A Hyundai Motor Group representative stated, "It offers a new perspective on Asia at the boundaries between humans and machines, past and future, reality and virtuality, and individual and collective identity," adding, "We will continue to evolve into a differentiated platform that highlights diverse discourses based on transcultural and transhistorical perspectives in the rapidly changing realities of Asia."