Art Collider Lab Marks Its 10^th Anniversary with “2025 Connected Week: Open Access School”

From Tuesday, November 11, through Thursday, November 13, at the Seokgwan Campus, Art Collider Lab (AC Lab), an institute affiliated with K-Arts, hosted the festival “2025 Connected Week: Open Access School.”

This year’s theme was “Confluence,” referring to a meeting point where flows from all directions merge to form a newly directed current. The festival celebrated both the tenth anniversary of AC Lab and the fifth anniversary of the “Connected Campus” project, which interweaves the arts of a new era while envisioning the future of arts, technology, and education.

Over the past decade, under the motto “Collision and New Discovery,” AC Lab has continued creative experimentation through collaboration and convergence-driven arts education programs. Through its “Connected Campus” initiative – spanning six schools within K-Arts and promoting the digital transformation of arts education – the lab has pursued collaborative and sustainable models of arts education across diverse genres and academic disciplines.

The festival reflected AC Lab’s achievements while exploring new possibilities with active and emerging artists, creators, and professionals from various fields. The event featured a range of programs, including exhibitions, lectures, and performances, organized around three keywords: archiving, connection, and imagination.

An AC Lab representative stated, “This festival is not only a celebration of our achievements but also a point of confluence – a space where diverse streams merge to create new currents. We wanted to bring together artists, students, researchers, and other professionals to envision the future landscape of the arts.”