1. Culture Technology Bridging between Art & Culture and Science & Technology
Kwangyun Wohn, KAIST
Graduate School of Culture Technology

2. About Myself

3. f = m · a

4. Missile Design

5. Computer Science

6. Computational Vision

7. My Younger Years: Harvard and Penn

8. Back to Korea

9. Virtual Reality

10. Research Theme Information Education Visualization VR Technology
Virtual
Heritage
Digital
Fashion
한 지붕밑에서 연구/창작/산업화 할 필요
MIT Media Lab
Disney Imagineering
USC
CMU

13. NEXT Initiative (2010~)

15. “Being a Curator” (2012)

16. VR Technology + Displays + Network
Educational Platform
Educational Content

17. NEXT Initiative People Educational Contents Context Provider
Spatial-Temporal
World View

18. Educational Implications
Interaction
Experience
Information

19. Once upon a time in America …

20. Snow Crash (1992) Story in the near future Crash of US Government
America’s competence
Movies
Music
Micro Codes
Pizza Delivery

21. Knowledge-Based Industry
those industries …
… which have their base on individual creativity, skill and talent and
… which have a potential for wealth and job creation through the generation and exploitation of intellectual property
No mention on “culture”

22. World according to IP
Wired magazine 2008

23. Innovation Natural Resource-based Economy Cultural Resource-based

24. Technology Products Business Services Culture
Innovations
Technology Products Business Services Culture
When you are trying to sell your product/service, you are suggesting the customer to change his/her life style.
In Iran, satellite TV is popular. How about IPTV?

25. Innovation in Culture Way of thinking Way of working Way of enjoying
Way of living
Way of interacting/socializing
Way of expressing ourselves
Of course, a government cannot engineer/force the way of thinking, the way of working, … etc.
But it may influence or guide people in a more desirable direction.
I think this is the essence of culture technology.

26. Culture as Infrastructure

27. Past
Service
Manufacturing
Agriculture

28. Present IT
Culture
Energy
BIO
Agriculture

29. Future IT
BIO
Energy
Agriculture
Culture

30. “The Meaning of Places” Intel Workshop (2004)

31. Culture Technology (1994) Applying engineering process to cultural innovation
예술, 문화 산업에 필요한 컴퓨터 기술을 체계적으로 연구개발하자. 동기
1. 화장
2. 여자얼굴 그림

32. Culture Technology: Framework
1. 2.
Traditional,
Analog Industry
High-tech,
Digital Industry
Culture
Technology
Digitalized
Cultural
Artifacts
Traditional
Cultural
Artifacts

33. Growth Engine for the National Advancement (to the $30K Per Capita) (2001)
IT, BT, NT, ET and … CT

34. Numerous National Policies and Plans …
Content Korea Vision 21 ( )
5-Year Plan for the Game Industry (2002)
Vision for the Korean Culture Industry ( )
Master Plan for Securing the Human Resource ( )
Roadmap for R&D in Culture Technology ( ) …

35. “Korean Waves”
Movies
TV Drama
Pop Music
Games
Fashion

36. Resistances / Oppositions against CT
Other developed countries?
Just an application of IT
Real? Identity? Uniqueness?
Interdisciplinary efforts not needed
Political propaganda

37. National R&D Budget for the Culture Industry
US$ 1,000M
2001
2012

38. Sentiments (or Complaints)
C = Content (rather than culture) T = Technique (rather than technology)

39. In the mean while …

40. Human Resource in Culture Technology
Creators
Producers
Consumers
(Public)

41. Grad School of CT @ KAIST (2005 ~ )

45. Mission “Global leaders” for the culture industry
Technology for the culture industry
A new kind of post-graduate education which fuses (digital) technology, socio-humanities, arts, and business

46. Educational strategy Interdisciplinary system Project-based system
Taylor-made system

47. Experience
(HCI)
Visual
media
Sound,
Music,
Performance
Physical
interaction
Technology
Content
design
Story
Design,
Cognition
Arts
Management
Cultural Management &
Policy

48. Areas of Research Social Complexity & Digital Humanities Interaction &
Space
Cultural Artifacts
한 지붕밑에서 연구/창작/산업화 할 필요
MIT Media Lab
Disney Imagineering
USC
CMU

49. Student Backgrounds

50. Alumni 졸업생 현황 Grad Year Master Ph.D 2007 15 2008 21 2009 43 2010 30
2011 36 3
2012 48 9
2013 28 10
2014 42 5
2015 31 7
Total
294 34

51. Where did they go?

52. Under one roof … Engineering Socio-Humanities Art & Design
한 지붕밑에서 연구/창작/산업화 할 필요
MIT Media Lab
Disney Imagineering
USC
CMU
Art &
Design

53. Technology, Art and Practice on ‘Culture’
Education
한 지붕밑에서 연구/창작/산업화 할 필요
MIT Media Lab
Disney Imagineering
USC
CMU
R&D
Creation

54. Cultural
Contents

55. Culture Technology Experience Technology Life (衣.食,住) Technology
Content
Technology
Social
Technology
Expressive
Technology
한 지붕밑에서 연구/창작/산업화 할 필요
MIT Media Lab
Disney Imagineering
USC
CMU

56. Global CT Network GSCT-KAIST (Korea) KMD-Keio U (Japan) ENJMIN-CNAM
(France)
CCI-QUT
(Australia)
SIAT-SFU
(Canada)

57. CNAM-KAIST Collaborations (so far)
Professor Stephane Natkin at our advisory committee
Professor Wohn, 4 months at CNAM (2015)
Student exchanges
Three KAIST students at CNAM (2015, 2016)
Two CNAM students at KAIST (2016)
Two KAIST students at CNAM (2016~2017, planned)
Joint workshop in 2017 (planned)
Jean-Charles Bazin as the KAIST faculty !

58. International Cooperation in CT
Symbiosis [Brain]
For advances in science and technology
Sympathy [Heart]
For further understanding