DMAF 2026 Nam June Paik Cultural Foundation Media Art Award Winners

Hello, this is the DMAF Operations Office. We are pleased to announce the winners of the DMAF 2026 Nam June Paik Cultural Foundation Media Art Award. Elly Cho's 〈Climate Hybrids〉 (Experimental Documentary | AI, Dance & Climate Futures) has been selected for the 2026 Nam June Paik Cultural Foundation Media Art Award. In addition, the DMAF 2026 Emerging Artist Competition, co-hosted by the Nam June Paik Cultural Foundation and the Korea AI Immersive Metaverse Contents Association (KOVACA), drew 72 participants, with four artists receiving awards. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Awards Hana Art Bank Award — Gold Kim Sejin, 〈No Signal〉 Hana Art Bank Award — Silver Eom Jeongwon, 〈The Tale of the Sun and the Moon〉 Hana Art Bank Award — Bronze Kim Myeongseok, 〈Dancheong Street〉 Hi Funding Award An Yujin, 〈A Butterfly Dream on Line 1〉 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The jury members are as follows (in Korean alphabetical order). • Kim Gyeonga — Director, Nam June Paik Cultural Foundation • Kim Daseul — Assistant Professor, School of Photography & Video, Kyungil University • Kim Euna — Curator, Vilcek Foundation, New York • Kim Heogyeong — Director, Gwangju Media Art Platform (G.MAP) • Lee Sanghyeon — Senior Curator, National Asian Culture Center (ACC) • Lee Eunju — Curator, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) Our heartfelt congratulations to all the winners.