Doppelgänger by K-Arts Art Collider Receives the Creative
Support Fund from the Arts Council Korea
<Doppelgänger>, an immersive performance project produced by K-Arts Art Collider Art & Technology Lab (AT Lab) is chosen as one of the four final selections by the Arts Council Korea for the business of promoting art and technology.
<Doppelgänger> is an
audience-engaging VR performance content that allows its audience to experience
the journey of heading towards death from life. It is the most high-tech
location-based VR performance within the nation. This content copies the
performer’s location and behavior in real life that the participants can
directly communicate with actors and share experiences with other participants
while playing.
Professor Cho Chung-yeon, the head director of Art Collider,
predicted, “The integration of VR and performing art as in this demonstration
will become a standard of application model for directing virtual stages in the
future.” He added, “The outcome of this project is meaningful, especially
because we made it through cooperation. In this project, RECON Labs
corporation, an AR/VR platform development company, and four departments in
K-Arts – School of Film, TV & Multimedia, School of Visual Arts, School of
Music, and School of Dance – participated. And this is what K-Arts is pursuing
in convergence art education through high-tech for the future.”
As a creative research center, the AT Lab aims to integrate art,
culture, technology, industry, and academia. Through worldwide academic and
industrial cooperation with universities and research centers, it researches
and creates content in immersive media, high-tech medical care, and artificial
intelligence. In 2020, along with <Scarecrow> sponsored
by Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA), other virtual reality contents
adopting different high-tech applications such as networking in Nine
VR and three-dimensional space scanning in <Rain Fruits> received
invitations from film festivals from around the world: Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca,
Cannes XR, VRHAM in Amsterdam, Kaoshiung in Taiwan. The AT Lab also signed an
international distribution contract with Iconic Engine, a global content
distributor. Now it sets the trends in the production and development of
realistic media.