The 35-work exhibition uses LiDAR-based “Lazography” to examine how images move from matter to data.

SEOUL — Photography Seoul Museum of Art is presenting “Machine Vision: A Tactile Way of Seeing,” a 35-work exhibition by Korean artist Kim Young-kyung, through Dec. 20 in the museum’s first-floor lobby.

The exhibition is the third edition of the museum’s Photo Discovery project, which uses spaces outside conventional galleries as sites for viewing. Kim approaches photography as a place where objects can exist and examines how images change as they move between physical materials and data.

A central element of the project is “Lazography,” the artist’s term for a method that adapts LiDAR technology as an artistic tool. Unlike a conventional camera that receives visible light, the process uses reflected laser signals to register the surfaces of objects and produce what the museum describes as a tactile form of representation.

The installation responds directly to the museum’s irregular lobby architecture. Works include the archive cabinet “On a Different Table,” the wall-based series “From the Ground to the Cloud” and the new 5.6-meter-high work “Ghost Landscape,” which links machine vision to the physical space of the museum.

The exhibition is free to enter. Related participatory programs are scheduled for Nov. 15 and Dec. 9, allowing visitors to remove images from the archive cabinet and rearrange them within the museum.

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