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2023.12.01

The Korea National University of Arts (President Dae-jin Kim) Art & Technology Lab (hereinafter referred to as AT Lab) will host the 2023 Immersive Day international conference on the theme “Creativity of the Mechanical Art”. The event will be held on Monday, December 4, from 1 PM to 5 PM (KST) and will be broadcast live online.

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This conference will serve as a platform to explore the future of advanced convergence arts and creative content that evolves alongside technological development.

On the first day of the conference, starting with a keynote speech by Steve Dixon, president of Singapore's Lascelles University of the Arts, Professor You Se-mi of Virginia Commonwealth University will present the topic. Afterwards, Choi Min-hyuk (a professional history course at the school's video center), who is taking an immersive performance lecture at Hanyejong X Virginia Commonwealth University, and Park Eok (a professional history course at the school's video center) and Lee Yoon-dong and Kim Jun-woo (a Ph.D. in computer engineering at Pohang University of Engineering) will participate in the presentation of the research case.

The second day of the conference will be joined by Martin Honjik, general curator of the Ars Electronica Center, with K-ARTS X Ars Electronica Academy, Daito Manabe and Peter Frohidling of the Ars Academy. Professor Eugene Yang of the National University of North Korean Arts in Taiwan and Professor Yeo Un-seung of Ewha Womans University in Korea will discuss the current status and future of advanced convergence art.

President Daejin Kim expressed his hope that this conference would serve as an opportunity to "acknowledge that art, closely intertwined with the development of technology, is a means of advancing into the future," and he anticipates that "it will lay the groundwork for mutual sharing of the latest art technology and high-tech convergent arts." The conference will take place in the Screening Room (L219) of the School of Film, TV & Multimedia and K-Ciné within the Seokgwan campus of K-Arts and will be live-streamed through the AT Lab YouTube channel.

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Together, the participants will engage in discussions on the current trends and future direction of advanced convergence arts.

The conference will take place at the Film Institute and K-Cine, Seokgwan-dong Campus, Korea National University of Arts, and will be live-streamed on the AT Lab YouTube channel.