[DMAF 2026] Major Notice for the Amateur Open Exhibition (Guide Update, Educational Videos, Information Session Schedule)

Dear Amateur Exhibition Contest Applicants, Thank you sincerely for applying to the DMAF2026 Amateur Open Exhibition. We would like to share several important notices regarding participation in this event. Please read the information below carefully. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1. Latest Official Event Guide We are providing you with the updated version of the full event guide, which reflects the latest information for DMAF 2026. Please refer to Attachment (01) for details. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 2. Online Educational Videos (VOD) Now Available To support applicants in preparing for the exhibition, online educational videos (VOD) have been released today through the DMAF2026 YouTube channel. These videos will remain available throughout the DMAF2026 event period. • Korean Lecture Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-BUOeevNNzVdxwNwRNCFqbcTww-ZgzRe • Lecture Playlist with Korean Audio + English Subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-BUOeevNNzVV-dpODlMUlp6-9O96gLdD • Curriculum: Attachment (02) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 3. Offline Education Program • Schedule: April 25 (Sat), 26 (Sun) / May 2 (Sat), 3 (Sun) — 4 sessions total, 3 hours each • Venue: Hana Bank H.art1 • Eligibility: First-round selected applicants only • Curriculum (Classes will be provided to support the creation of works for the final exhibition.) - Session 1: High-Resolution Environment Setup - Session 2: Technical Artwork - Session 3: Audio Visualization - Session 4: High-End Mastering and Practical Exhibition Optimization ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 4. Online Information Session for the Amateur Open Exhibition To help answer any questions you may have about the exhibition, we will hold a live online information session. • Korean Session Date: Wednesday, March 25, 8:00 PM (KST) • Platform: Live Zoom Meeting • Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89669141240?pwd=LjDNiMk77Xg9etoqT3pnAJTPYPL21i.1#success Topics Covered • Learning guide for the online educational videos (VOD) • DMAF2026 theme, media art production guide using Korean Minhwa, and real project examples • Offline education guide During the session, you may leave your questions in the Zoom chat, and we will respond to them. ※ For applicants who use foreign languages (English), the information session will be provided in the form of a recorded video with English subtitles. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 5. Amateur Open Exhibition Q&A Please refer to Attachment (03) for details. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 6. DMAF2026 Website The official DMAF2026 website is currently under construction. It will be launched soon, so we kindly ask for your patience. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ If you have any questions regarding the event, please feel free to reply to this email at any time. We hope you will create wonderful work together with DMAF2026. Best regards, DMAF2026 Secretariat