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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

(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...

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...

What do you want to say, a robot with a cross-legged seat? In 2007, Korea made an attempt to enact the “Robot Ethics Charter”, for the first time in the world. Unfortunately, only the draft was built and it became fuzzy, but Lovot Lab confesses that we want to...

Is the human body an imperfection and deficient? In the post-human era, advanced medical technology has been used beyond the fence of hospitals, causing changes in the lives and society of individuals, and furthermore, it is turning into a problem of redefining the...

In the art field, AI art exists as a new genre. It is attractive enough for humans to use AI art as a tool using their creativity. As a new medium, AI art will serve as a partner to help humans do art. (by Park Ji-Eun, CEO of Pulse Nine) Recently, AI is replacing part...

The novel <BA-BOT> begins with a robot's monologue. I am a butler-type artificial intelligence robot. For some reason, I was released on February 22nd, 2022 at 00:22, and now it is at 2:30am on Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026. A manufacturer called Tayco, who made...

1. Please explain and introduce the company in detail. Flexound Augmented AudioTM brings natural sound and vibration to soft surfaces that make contact with the body. People don’t just hear sounds; they feel them as well. Before Flexound, may different loudspeakers at...