Gwangju City Museum of Art (Director Kim Jun-ki) and Gwangju Information and Culture Industry Promotion Agency announced on the twenty fourth that they signed a business agreement (MOU) for cooperation in the sector of culture and humanities based on artificial intelligence (AI) with officials in attendance at the town museum.
In line with the agreement, the 2 organizations will ▲ discover policies for sustainable AI-based cultural arts development ▲ cooperate in joint development and operation of AI-based cultural arts content ▲ promote resource exchange and infrastructure activation through collaboration between the 2 organizations ▲ strengthen external cooperation between the 2 organizations.
The Gwangju Information and Culture Industry Promotion Agency was established in 2002 to understand a sustainable creative economy city through the prosperity of the content and knowledge and culture technology (ICT) convergence industry. It’s developing various contents corresponding to webtoons, animation, movies, music, performances, games, and realistic contents, in addition to AI-related projects.
This 12 months, the Gwangju Museum of Art opened an exhibition that mixes modern art, mathematics, and AI called “Language of the Universe: Numbers,” and a citizen-friendly experiential exhibition using artificial intelligence called “Shining Gwangju City Exploration.” Starting this 12 months, the Gwangju Museum of Art plans to carry exhibitions linked to AI yearly.
The 2 organizations promised to construct an organic cooperative system, including the event of convergence content and the exchange of human and material resources, to contribute to the revitalization and expansion of the AI and art fields.
Kim Jun-ki, director of the Gwangju City Museum of Art, said, “Gwangju is a representative city of artificial intelligence and an art city, and we signed this business agreement to hunt ways for artificial intelligence and art to cooperate and coexist in the longer term,” adding, “We plan to proceed meaningful research and activities through continuous exchanges.”
Reporter Im Dae-jun ydj@aitimes.com
