Artificial Intelligence (AI) Meets Artists to Paint Emotional Connections!

UNIST Faculty Startup 'CoreDotToday' AI Art Exhibition

AI-Generated Image Representation on Installation Art Screen

An exhibition by Core Dot Today and artist Kang Sira will be held in Ulsan.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Dongguk Lee] A 'unique exhibition' created through a collaboration between artificial intelligence (AI) and a media artist is being held in Ulsan.

The image expression method generated by AI was applied to the screen within the installation art work created by the artist. The images on this screen are generated by AI reading text.

UNIST faculty startup company CoreDotToday will exhibit a 'Technology X Art Collaboration' work in cooperation with artist Kang Sira at Gallery P1 in Ulsan from the 25th of this month to April 3rd.

This project was promoted as part of CoreDotToday's 'Art and Technology Convergence Project.' The exhibited work is an installation art piece that includes a display.

CoreDotToday generated the video displayed on the screen within the installation art piece installed by artist Kang Sira.

The work 'Synaptic Self', a collaboration between Core Today and writer Kang Sira.

Two types of artificial intelligence were used in the work.

The first AI learned from 14 million images to generate new images.

The second AI learned 400 million pairs of image-text connections to evaluate the suitability of the previously generated images. Through this process, the AI can render the text provided by the artist into images.

Artist Kang Sira said, "As a result of conveying images reflecting emotions and sentences and words containing human emotions, I was able to face unexpected images generated by AI," adding, "It was an experience of communicating with AI that expresses what the artist wants to create."

CoreDotToday is a data processing company located in Ulsan. The company has been attempting to combine data technology and art.

In November 2021, they held an exhibition titled 'Strange Familiarity,' which featured works depicting Ulsan Taehwagang National Garden using AI trained on the style of a famous painter.

After the previous exhibition, CoreDotToday, seeking a new collaboration model, met artist Kang Sira, who works as a media artist in the Busan area, through Gallery P1 director Kang Yujin, who has been planning exhibitions that fuse various genres, and promoted a collaborative project.

This collaborative work was also exhibited at the recent major domestic art fair, the '2022 Hwarang Art Fair.'

The 'Hwarang Art Fair,' celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, was held at SETEC in Gangnam, Seoul, from March 16 to 20. The event, held on the largest scale ever, exhibited over 4,000 works submitted by 800 artists from 143 domestic galleries, including the collaborative work by CoreDotToday.

CoreDotToday CEO Kim Kyunghoon said, "While the previous exhibition focused on technology itself by displaying paintings created by AI, this exhibition aimed to explore the potential of technology as a tool to express the creativity of artists through collaboration with artists," adding, "We plan to continue preparing various projects where art and technology can converge."

CoreDotToday is a specialized company that processes and analyzes raw data to provide data models that meet specific purposes.

It was founded in 2016 by Professor Jang Bongsu of the Department of Mathematical Sciences at UNIST, and currently, Dr. Kim Kyunghoon, who was a postdoctoral researcher at that time, serves as CEO.

In 2018, they launched 'LAWBOT,' a service optimized for legal precedent searches, and in 2019, they were recognized for their competitiveness by being selected as a data voucher supplier by the Ministry of Science and ICT.

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