dianaband understand sound and sonic environments as the mediatory presence of communality and ecosystem, practicing listening, making, and sounding as methods to connect with worlds beyond the human. Engaging in the process of listening-responding in a world dispersed without a center is an inquiring journey to contemplate with whom and how we shall connect here and now.
The solo exhibition Conversation about the ROOT (Seoul Museum of Art/SeMA Storage, 2021) proposed relation-listening within a sonic environment where incidents occurring among objects form a community through sound and movement. This was followed by the serial work of building object ecosystems, Dots, Speaking Nearby Dots (Coreana Museum of Art, 2022), expanding the scope of listening to countless ’dots’ encompassing space, matter, and environment. The soundwalk performance Heading Ears, Flowing Steps, Unfolded Thought (Arts Council Korea, 2024) develops listening devices that pay attention to the passive and situated nature of relation-listening and proposes a communal listening to the incident-world guided by endlessly dispersing consciousness and steps along Hongjecheon Stream in Seoul. In the form of workshops and talks, they continue their practice through Radio Worlding (Ururu, 2025), a communal project researching sound and networks that reimagines radio as an environment, and the gathering Cloud Workout Done (Ururu, 2024), which performs autonomous and distributed network practices.
Education
Wonjung Shin
2012 Dirty Art Department, Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, NL
2007 Bachelor of Fine Art, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, KR
Dooho Yi
2007 System and Control Lab, Electrical Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul - Master, KR
2005 Division of Electrical, Electronics & Computer Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul - Bachelor, KR
Solo Exhibitions
2021 Conversation, About the Root, Seoul Museum of Art SeMA Storage, Seoul, KR
2019 1 and 12 128th Seconds in the Prince’s Room, All Time Space, Seoul, KR
2018 The Shape of Consolation, Oil Tank Culture Park, Seoul, KR
2016 Fat-tongue, Vibrating-socks and Grunge, space 413, Seoul, KR
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 Dreaming of Terrapolis, Gyeongnam Art Museum, Changwon, KR
2024 Unmute Water: A Walk in Oscillation, SJC Gallery, Jeju, KR
2023 Paper Mirror: Time Sculpture Collection, Seongbuk Museum of Art, Seoul, KR
2023 Dots, Speaking Nearby Dots, S/ash Gallery WORM, Rotterdam, NL
2023 Platforming Hapjeong District #3 Hand in Hand, Loosely, Hapjeong District, Seoul, KR
2022 Dots, Speaking Nearby Dots, Coreana Museum of Art, Seoul, KR
2021 Members of Earth, Post Territory Ujeongguk, Seoul, KR
2019 Dada Factory Exhibition Play-Logue, Seongbuk Children’s Museum, Seoul, KR
2018 SMP-Sound Map Player, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, KR
2018 Typojanchi Saisai International Typography Biennale, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, KR
2017 Gwangju Media Festival Human×Machine System, Bitgoeul Citizen Cultural Center, Gwangju, KR
2017 Our Bright Future-Cybernetic Fantasy, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin, KR
2015 Objectology II: Make, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, KR
2014 Printing Studio Show, KCDF Gallery, Seoul, KR
2012 Candle Song, Musrara Festival, Jerusalem, IL
2012 Transitions, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam, NL
2011 Paper Moon, MEM International Experimental Art Festival, Bilbao, ES
2011 Ring Ring Rain, Zuiderzee Museum, Enkhuizen, NL
Performances
2025 Swipe, Ummeeonn, Daehakro Arts Theater Small Hall, Seoul, KR
2024 Sound From Earth, OCCII, Amsterdam, NL
2024 Feed the Spider, Hundred Years Gallery, London, UK
2024 E-Crystallomancy, Tihla Ground, Seoul, KR
2024 Ranges of Error: Stations, ARKO Art Center, Seoul, KR
2024 Cats and Paperboxes, Dotolim, Seoul, KR
2023 Cats and Paperboxes, Vroom#98, Rotterdam, NL
2022 Walking Towards the Flow, Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA), Seoul, KR
2021 Stone-breaking Sleep, Breathing Forest, Theatre Sinchon, Seoul, KR
2020 A Museum for All, A Museum for Dogs, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, KR
2019 Soundless Waveless Sound, Cosmo 40, Incheon, KR
2018 Round Ensemble, Post Territory Ujeongguk, Seoul, KR
2018 Camino de Ansan- Voices, Ansan Street Art Festival, Ansan, KR
2017 Stances That Stand Upright or Slump Down, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, KR
2017 Camino de Ansan- Citizen Band 2, Ansan Street Art Festival, Ansan, KR
2016 Camino de Ansan- Citizen Band 1, Ansan Street Art Festival, Ansan, KR
2015 Camino de Ansan- Footsteps Orgel, Ansan Street Art Festival, Ansan, KR
Curation
2025 Radio Worlding, collaborative research on sound, Ururu, Seoul, KR
2024 Heading Ears, Flowing Steps, Unfolded Thought, Sound Walk+Preliminary Collaborative Research, Hongjecheon, Seoul, KR
2024 Cloud Workout Done, collaborative research on Distributed Networks, Ururu, Seoul, KR
2023 Sand and Receive, sound game launch, KR
Grants & Residencies
2024 Emerging Fields in Art & Technology Grant, Art Korea Lab, KR
2023 International Exchange Residency Grant (WORM Residency), Rotterdam, NL, Arts Council Korea, KR
2023 Art Change-Up, Arts Council Korea, KR
2019 Namwon Sound Art Residency, Namwon, KR
2018 Emerging Artist Grant, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, KR
2018 MMCA Residency Changdong Project Team, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, KR
2018 ACC Creative-in-Lab, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, KR
