Byeong Sam Jeon (born January 20, 1977) is an internationally recognized South Korean artist who lives in Seoul and New York. One of his large-scale art installations is '
CD PROJECT
'' that turned an abandoned old tobacco factory into a shiny dream factory through decorating the 180 meter-long and 32 meter-high outer wall of the factory building with the total 489,440 flattering compact discs collected by 27,912 people from 288 organizations in 31 cities of 9 countries. The total number of the CDs installed was counted by the official

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, and announced as the
Largest Display of Compact Discs
. His works and sketch/prototypes of the giant installations have sold for substantial sums of money by the galleries and private collectors. He holds a master's degree in fine arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and also holds the master's degree in information and computer science from the

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of South Korea announced him as one of the representative convergence type personnel 'Homo Creaens' in 2014. His work explores how interdisciplinary research influences the society in creative ways and makes the world more diverse. One of his well-known works
Telematic Drum Circle
has gathered more than 320,000 Internet users and offline participants from 59 countries to promote global harmony across the world since it was released in September 2007 at the California Institute of Telecommunication and Information Technology. Byeong Sam Jeon has presented his work worldwide mainly including:

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(United States), ISIMD (Turkey), AsiaGraph (China), ArtBots (Ireland), Salon (Cuba), LIFE (Russia), Netfilmmakers (Denmark), SIAF (Japan), TMCA (South Korea), Siggraph ASIA (Singapore), and many more. He also worked as the executive creative director of the 2015 Cheongju International Craft Biennale, and brought 310,000 visitors in 40 days of the event.

References

* MBC TV News
Giant Sculpture with 500,000 CDs holds the Guinness World Records
* MBN Newspaper
Imagining to cover the Great Wall of China with compact discs. Communication between the world and art
* KBS TV Lecture
IT Concert: Watch, Connect, and Actualize it!

Notable works

CD PROJECT
* Dynamic Relaxation * Pangdoranee * Beautility * GreenSphere * Jeon-Byeong-Sam-Ryong-Ee * Dream of the Sky * Dialogues * Digital MEM * Dotted Nature
Telematic Drum Circle

Drop Drop

Ten Worlds: Garden of Life

We Are Romantic

Miscommunication

Dool-Momzit

Half Moon

Zoo II

Nameless Baby

Dreaming Bus

Buddha's Inn

Freedom Exists or Not
{{DEFAULTSORT:Jeon, Byeong Sam 1977 births Living people South Korean artists Artists from Seoul School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni University of California, Irvine alumni