2024-07-07 18:53:02
‘Art Korea Lab x SAT Art’ Showcase
Data on audience movement, artistic expression, etc.
Various performances using AI motion capture technology
As the two began to play the guitar, waves of various colors appeared on the walls on both sides of the exhibition hall. While appreciating the increasingly intense music and the increasingly colorful waves, I noticed something strange. One person didn’t have a guitar in his hand. He was just pretending to play the guitar, waving his arms wildly in front of his laptop. When I looked closely, I saw that the laptop screen was full of complicated formulas and shortcuts, with no musical notes.
At the ‘Art Korea Lab x SAT Art Technology Masterclass’ showcase held on the 5th in Jongno-gu, Seoul, a performance utilizing motion capture technology based on artificial intelligence (AI) was presented. It was a presentation of works from a masterclass held for 21 creators over ten days by Art Korea Lab, operated by the Arts Management Support Center under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. It was designed as a course combining lectures and creation by inviting art directors and researchers from Canada’s SAT (Society for Arts and Technology). Established in 1996, SAT is considered a global technology-fusion art institution along with Austria’s ‘Ars Electronica’, France’s ‘Irkam’, and the United States’ ‘New Inc’.
The showcase that day also showcased a work that expressed the audience’s movements as visual art by digitizing them in real time. As I approached the Kinect (motion recognition equipment) camera installed in the exhibition hall, the audience’s figures were drawn on the wall with colorful lights. Artist Park Ji-soo said, “There were difficulties in actually implementing the work in the exhibition hall, but I was able to immediately seek advice from experienced teachers,” and “The frustration I felt about it being difficult to pass on know-how in Korea, where the field of technology convergence art is not yet developed, was resolved.”
In addition to new artists, established artists also participated in this master class. Choi Hae-in, head of the Art Technology Support Team at Art Korea Lab, explained, “There was a lot of demand from established artists in their 30s and 40s who wanted to learn advanced techniques that are rarely available in Korea, such as the interactive art program ‘Osia Score.’ We plan to steadily expand the mid- to long-term advanced courses that were previously limited to one-time courses.”
The participating artists responded that it helped build a creative and distribution ecosystem. Artist Ko Tae-hyun said, “It is meaningful that I met SAT’s main planners in person, beyond just acquiring technology. It has created a necessary contact point when preparing for overseas exhibitions or resident artists in the future.” SAT Director Pia Baltazar, who oversaw this training, said, “In the field of technology convergence art, it is important to go beyond boundaries such as genre and country to converge with various artists,” and “Korean artists have a strong will to learn, so I expect they will show a deeper world of works in the future.”
Reporter Lee Ji-yoon [email protected]
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