Arnobio Morelix / Silicon Valley-based leader working at the intersection of technology, economics, and policy. His work has been featured widely in national and global media, including the New York Times, the Economist, the Wall Street Journal, and the BBC, among...
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[New Media Art] Innovative New Media Art
Beryl Graham / Professor of New Media Art at the University of Sunderland, and is co-founder of CRUMB resource for curators of new media art. In the 1960s, artists like Nam June Paik were using the emerging technology of video, as soon as it was available. Right now,...
[Science] Hunting for invisible pink elephants
Michael Doser / senior research physicist at CERN, the European particle physics laboratory, and science communicator A limited view of the world As humans, we are used to apprehending our environment through our senses, most prominently through our eyes, but of...
[VR & METAVERSE] We Will Live in the OASIS of Ready Player One? And Will It Be Okay to Just Keep Living in It?
Sang-gyun Kim / Cognitive Scientist and Professor at Kangwon National University In 2045, people seek to escape from the dark reality filled with poverty, food crisis and social polarization through the virtual reality entertainment universe called the OASIS created...
[VR & METAVERSE] Who Shall be the King of the Contact-less Era Brought Closer Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic?
Seung-hoon Woo / Director, VR Game Developer, Mammossix The COVID-10 pandemic brings a contact-less era closer to us. The COVID-19 pandemic which has arrived without a warning completely changed our everyday lives. We cannot meet people or do things outside freely as...
The Future of the Lab-2
Horst Hörtner / Managing Director of the Ars Electronica Futurelab Art is an open invitation (to curiosity) An example is The Listener by Partricia Piccinini, which was part of an exhibition called Project Genesis curated by Ars Electronica in 2013. The exhibition...
The Future of the Lab-1
Horst Hörtner / Managing Director of the Ars Electronica Futurelab When we consider the history of new media technology and art, the concept of the lab has played a significant role as a symbol of the experimental nature of media art and as a provider of...
[Borderline between Human & Non-human] Contemporary Artist Park, Kwan-Woo, Consideration about the borderline between humans and non-humans
Ask yourself once. Are emotions only bound to humans? If you say yes, think about the reason as well. Contemporary artist Park Kwan-Woo started from this one question, and pondered deeply into the existence of emotion. How can we distinguish humans from non-humans...
[Interstellar Message] Unhappy Circuit, Is anyone there? Exploring non-human beings in the outer space
A boy who is fascinated by science fiction films presents a newly designed interstellar message in pure Korean on Hangeul Day in 2020. Why does he put a message in the space? A message that is delivered to an extraterrestrial intelligence that may exist somewhere and...
[Artificial Intelligence Artist] AI artist Who dances, composes, draws, writes, and designs
Choreographer ᅵ Madi After observing the movement, ‘Madi’ creates a new movement based on it. It was developed by SlitScope, a media art group consisting of media artist Kim Je-Min and AI engineer Kim Geun-Hyung. In June 2020, they collaborated with choreographer Shin...
[Social Robots] Pibo, Would you like to bring a companion robot into your house?
Imagine. Can a robot, not a friend or family member, become a companion in life? The first companion robot in Korea, “Pibo,” is always with you from the moment you open your eyes on the bed. It looks after you, chat, and dance when you’re depressed. Q. Pibo, you...
[Artwork with AI] Media Artist Lee Ye-Seung, The reason why the ancient books of BC were learned by artificial intelligence
Media artist Lee Ye-Seung raises her voice that the current upheaval is the time when Oriental thought is necessary. Even with artificial intelligence learning data, which is bound to ride on the Western way of thinking, she presents <Classic of the Mountains and...
[Definition of Cooperation] Three visual artists and an AI composer Unexpected perfect collaboration
Three writers suddenly intervened AI in the process of developing ideas. How did they end up? In the process of finding a consensus, AI composer was attracted and four subjects existed in the fence of collaboration. Creators are quite open to the form of...
[AI for Everyone] WizGene CEO Yoon Dong-Guk, What is an independent and universal AI
Yoon Dong-Guk is an artificial intelligence researcher who creates software using artificial intelligence and shares open source so that everyone can utilize these technologies and devices. Recently, he is developing a wheelchair capable of autonomous driving. What...
[Human vs Robot] T-Robotics, Will robots take over human jobs?
Could it be? Will that happen in the end? Humans are afraid that robots may take their jobs. Robots and artificial intelligence are growing into our everyday life. Will robots replace human work in the future? T-Robotics, a company specializing in automated robots,...
[Human Senses] Designer/Artist Hyun Park, Why are machines that resemble humans eerie?
Soft robots, a new technology, give us familiarity as a sense, and at the same time evoke negative emotions as an eerie machine. Artist Hyun Park thought these two sides are interesting, and brought them into the work. He embodies the sense of a soft robot and asks...
[Talk about Freak Show] Contemporary Artist Ok Jung-Ho, Who is the freak of this era?
(Description of work) Contemporary artist Ok Jung-Ho, who has raised social issues using photographs and videos, borrows from the entertainment ‘Freak Show’, which was viewed by placing abnormal people on the stage from the 17th century to the early 20th century, and...
[AI Art Robot Invasion] Artificial intelligence cannot be the subject of artistic creation
People continue to question the creation of artificial intelligence artworks. Can an AI artist do the same as a human artist? Artificial intelligence can play an excellent role in creating artworks, but it is not as a creative “subject” but as a “tool”. This is...