Smart Culture Space _ Culture Convenience Store

The Seongdong District Culture City Center and the art-focused metaverse platform ARTSCLOUD are opening a new media art exhibition at Seongsu Station, aiming to make art more accessible and convenient for the general public.

As a flagship digital cultural initiative of the Seongdong District Culture City Center, 'Smart Culture Convenience Store' aspires to offer a next-generation cultural platform where people can easily access cultural infrastructure such as libraries, art galleries, museums, performance halls, as well as cultural content like books, games, webcomics, music, and art using CT technology without any constraints. It ensures that individuals from all walks of life can enjoy various genres of cultural arts without being excluded from digital technology. We invite you to experience a variety of content in a lifestyle-oriented manner at Smart Culture Space, where analog sensibility and digital technology are integrated.

New Media Art Exhibition

Smart Culture Space New Media Art Exhibition introduces a diverse collection of digital artworks by active artists from both domestic and international backgrounds. These artists utilize digital painting, 2D graphics, 3D graphics, coding, and more to transcend the boundaries between reality and the virtual world, offering viewers fresh experiences. We hope that this opportunity to appreciate a variety of artworks in both offline and metaverse settings will provide new insights.

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Can AI Smell Too? The Emergence of New Media Art with Olfactory AI

AI writing poetry or creating art is a familiar sight today. Beyond that, AI capable of identifying scents has emerged, causing astonishment. This development has caught the attention not only of the scientific community but also the art world, exploring possibilities such as using scents in new media art and digitally presenting scents in the metaverse.

While other types of sensory information pass through different areas of the brain, smell, on the other hand, is the only type of sensation that is directly transmitted from the sensory organ (the nose) to the brain's memory and emotion center. This direct pathway is one of the reasons why scents evoke specific and powerful memories. While the sense of smell offers various appealing aspects in the realm of art, the 'Proust effect,' which vividly conveys associated memories and emotions, makes this sense particularly captivating.

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Beryl Bilici

Beryl Bilici is a 3D artist from Turkey who excels in character design and animation. She suggests that during our lives, we add pieces to our selves, contributing to the evolution of time. While it may seem like the boundaries of knowledge are expanding, we paradoxically find ourselves increasingly confined. As we appreciate her work, we explore ourselves desiring spiritual fulfillment.

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Jungwan Chae

Chae sharply criticizes the proliferation of fake news and misinformation. The artwork 'Too Much' tells the story of the vast digital information landscape where rumors and noise are on the rise. It portrays the irony of living in an age of information overload, where it becomes increasingly difficult to find useful information. This piece is significant as it transforms the 2020 painting into a digital video format. Featuring various individuals with separate layers for different movements, it breathes life into the images, enabling direct message delivery.

Dive into ARTSCLOUD 'Figures from Complaint'