Career
One of his large-scale art installations is Civil Defense 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 Guinness World Records, and announced as the "Largest Display of Compact Discs". 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 University of California, Irvine.
The Ministry of Science, Information and communications technology and Future Planning of South of 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, 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: Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques (United States), ISIMD (Turkey), AsiaGraph (China), ArtBots (Ireland), Salon (Cuba), LIFE (Russia), Netfilmmakers (Denmark), SIAF (Japan), TMCA (South of 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.