Analysis of Arts Educational Function of Immersive Digital Exhibition: Case of ‘Bunker de Lumières’ in Jeju

Abstract

There is an increasing number of cases in which the idle space is revived and transformed into a regenerated space. Idle space means a location which lost its function due to changes in the era and society, or which needs to change its usage. This space is often used as a common space, especially in the field of culture and arts. Oldenberg argued that this "third place" would help raise community ties. The regenerated space as arts mediating center has a high value because of unique place identity. The "Carrières de Lumières" in France, which was launched in 2012, was expanded to the "Bunker de Lumières" in Jeju, Korea, along with "Atelier des Lumières" in Paris. This series of regenerated idle spaces transforming abandoned industrial facilities into immersive digital exhibitions attracts hundreds of thousands of tourists each year, thanks to immersive technology based on audio-visual continuity by AMIEX system. In arts education, especially fine arts education, it is not easy to induce voluntary inward engagement as flow. Therefore, it is effective to amplify users’ curiosity and interest by using digital display and stimulating sensory outward engagement as immersion