One of the keywords to approach ZER01NE is “entanglement”, a concept that indicates the interaction between qubits, which hold both zero and one as their values. Entanglement is a form of convergence frequently covered not only in computer engineering but in overall...
Ars Electronica is an international media art and culture institution in Linz, Austria and composed of four departments: the Ars Electronica Festival, the Prix Ars Electronica, the Ars Electronica Center, and the Ars Electronica Future Lab.Ars Electronica started by...
Having supported digital art production by famous contemporary artists centering around virtual augmented reality technology, Acute Art recently launched an application that allows users to appreciate artwork by mobile as well. Though VR headsets are required for the...
A creative festival suggested by ZER01NE, “ZER01NE DAY” was held at the old site of Hyundai Motor Service Center at Wonhyo-ro for four days from October 19 to 22, 2018. Aiming to present an opportunity to think of new future in the vast space with the remaining traces...
A project team “Seoul LiDARs” consisting of ZER01NE creators Yang Sookyun, Choi Jinoon, and Hyun Parke participated in the 2018 Ars Electronica Festival with their project, “Volumetric Data Collector”. Having diligently collected data even while traveling Seoul and...
"An expression ‘tal Joseon’, or ‘fleeing Korea,’ has been prevalent among young people who want to but cannot escape the country. The ‘space for escape’ ZER01NE creator project team Pink Nation set by comparing it with the concept of a nation attempts a distancing...
"What is humanity, basically? What becomes lost between humans and post-humans due to changes in technology? Could humans create perfection? How many errors does a language make? Could we reach a perfect conversation? We will rely more on technologies that could make...
“Meeting creators at ZER01NE, we learned that they were, as someone who makes something, going through the same troubles and obstacles as we were.”Working on a cooperative project with the creators at ZER01NE, M.O.P is a start-up that develops materials for 3D...
“Creators at ZER01NE basically do not have fear of media. There are no huddles that mark boundaries. They go over to the other side or come back later. That’s just how flexible they are. If they ever have desire to make something, they just go on and try, regardless...
Having been a fishing village, Shanghai rapidly grew into the mecca of global finance by playing a role as a major place for China’s reform and opening-up including the establishment of Shanghai Master Plan from 1990 and of Shanghai Free-Trade Zone in 2013; the...
On March 30, 2018, the ZER01NE lounge was crowded with creators and start-ups gathering around for Tech Fair, where the promising Korean start-ups introduce and demonstrate their own technologies to the ZER01NE creators. The focus of Tech Fair is on connecting the...
“Newness” is always linked to passion and curiosity for the future. Based on this perspective, we can conclude that outstanding artists were all able to foresee the future. Though we are currently deluged with the offerings of advanced technology, still,...
What challenges will cities face in the future? We chose Seoul as a prime example and went on a three-day mission to reconnoiter the Korean metropolis. Our base camp was Zer01ne, a creative network platform that had been launched only a few months before. In the...
There is something called the Law of Accelerating Returns. First proposed by Ray Kurzweil, a futurist devoting his remaining years at Google to develop artificial intelligence (AI), the Law refers to a phenomenon where technological development becoming...
“Today, after more than a century of electric technology, we have extended our central nervous system in a global embrace, abolishing both space and time as far as our planet is concerned.”[1]Since the 18th century, we have been accustomed to deploy an...
“3-Legged Dog” (3LD) believes in the power of technology to amplify human experience and human expression, provoking empathy and complex reflection, thought and action. We exist to produce original works in theater, performance, dance, media and hybrid forms;...
What challenges will cities face in the future? We chose Seoul as a prime example and went on a three-day mission to reconnoiter the Korean metropolis. Our base camp was Zer01ne, a creative network platform that had been launched only a few months before. In the...
In the past decade, there has been tremendous growth in the rate at which startups are created in Silicon Valley and around the world. There are many hypotheses for why that is – including glamourous press, multi-billion dollar acquisitions, unique company cultures...