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Advanced Imaging International Festival

AIIF

The AIIF, organized by the Graduate School of Advanced Imaging, was established based on the BK21 Program for Professional Graduate Schools in 1999. It was subsequently selected as a Design Imaging Project Group under the second phase of the BK21 Project in 2008 and has continued its successful operation through the fourth phase of the BK21 Project in 2025.

The AIIF is held annually as an exhibition showcasing the research achievements and creative works of students from the Graduate School of Advanced Imaging. The festival features a wide range of projects and the latest research results tailored to each specialization, including Art Engineering, Digital Imaging, Game Engineering, Film, and Animation. It also includes exhibitions by invited international artists and hosts conferences.

2025 Advanced Imaging International Festival

Palimpsest of Reality — "Rethinking layered realities of AI, Art & Society"

- 전문가 초청강연
- The Future of Creativity and Generative AI: Insights from a Decade of Practice in AI and Music(Nao Tokui, Artist, Researcher, Founder of Qosmo and Neutone / 일본)
- Layered Realities: Machinima, Counter-Fictions, and Decolonial Ecologies(Isabelle Arvers, Independent Researcher and Curator / 프랑스)
- AI as a Creative Sidekick: Accelerating Artistic Creation in the Age of the Modern Renaissance(Tenma, Interdisciplinary Artist, Founder of Tenma Makes Music / 인도)
- Incubating Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence(Yuehao Jiang, Artist, Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Southern California / 미국)
- An Artist Field Report from Slopworld(Dave Court, Visual Artist, Founder of Dave Court Studio / 호주)
- Phygital Portals - Gen AI in 3D Imaging(Snow Yunxue Fu, New Media Artist, Assistant Arts Professor, New York University / 미국)
- (GSAIM AI Team 세션 별도 진행: 3D Gaussian Splatting 스타일 전이, 영화제 홍보용 생성형 AI 활용, Pre-Cast AI 가상 캐스팅 서비스)

2024 Advanced Imaging International Festival

Shared Minds — AI² ver.5.0 : Advanced Imaging & Artificial Intelligence

- 전문가 초청강연
- The Application of Artificial Intelligence in Art Creation(Yiwen Zhou, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor, Communication University of China / - 중국)
- Surveilling AI(Douglas Lewis, Multi-disciplinary Curator, Artist, and Art Educator / 캐나다)
- When AI can make Content, Art & Artist – What Does It Mean for Creativity, Creative Businesses, and Creative Ethics?(Sim Luttin, Founder & - Director, Jump Left Art Co.Lab / 호주)
- Creativity and Artificial Intelligence: A Consumer Experience Perspective(Jiyoon An, Assistant Professor, Fayetteville State University / 미국)
- Heaven and AI: Communication with objects created through AI(Eunjin(Eunice) Kim, Media artist, PhD. Art & Technology, Sogang University / 한국)
- Something AI cannot or does not notice(Woojin Kim, Media artist, Assistant Professor, Gangneung-Wonju National University / 한국)

2023 Advanced Imaging International Festival

A.I. — Artificial Intelligence & Artistic Imagination

- 전문가 초청강연 (8개국 석학 초청)
- Design and Labor: From Ford's automotive plant to the Google search engine(Dho Yee Chung, Assistant Professor, Oakland University / 미국)
- AI in Artistic Research and Animation Production: Helpful Tool or Ethical Challenge?(Hannes Rall, Professor, Nanyang Technological University / 싱가포르)
- Artistic Imaging in the Age of Mobility(Masayuki Akamatsu, Dean and Professor, Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences / 일본)
- Angelology and AI Or: The Many Beings Creating and Created through AI Generation(Ronnie Karfiol, Artist and Curator / 이스라엘)
- The influence of Virtual Reality on modern life(Sun Hao, Associate Professor, Qingdao University of Science and Technology / 중국)
- Generative AI in visual context(Tushar Sandhan, Professor, IIT Kanpur / 인도)
- Deep empty-Wide open(Valerie Messini, Postdoc Senior Scientist, University of Applied Arts Vienna / 오스트리아)
- Poetic Embodiments with AI(Young Suk Lee, Post Doctoral Researcher, Umeå Institute of Design / 스웨덴)

2022 Advanced Imaging International Festival

AI-Variation of an Art

- 전문가 초청강연 (7개국 석학 초청)
- Sabine Süsstrunk (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL / 스위스)
- Kiwon Um (Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris / 프랑스)
- Federico Pianzola (University of Groningen / 네덜란드)
- Renate Quehenberg (OEAD Young Science Ambassador / 오스트리아)
- H. Cecilia Suhr (Miami University / 미국)
- Graham Wakefield (York University / 캐나다)
- Song Kai (Communication University / 중국)