The Art Center Nabi () is an

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, South Korea. It was relocated to the 4th floor of SK building of

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in 2000 and reborn as

digital art Digital art, or the digital arts, is artistic work that uses Digital electronics, digital technology as part of the creative or presentational process. It can also refer to computational art that uses and engages with digital media. Since the 1960 ...

museum. Art Center Nabi has produced and exhibited various kinds of

at the intersection of

arts The arts or creative arts are a vast range of human practices involving creativity, creative expression, storytelling, and cultural participation. The arts encompass diverse and plural modes of thought, deeds, and existence in an extensive ...

and

technology Technology is the application of Conceptual model, conceptual knowledge to achieve practical goals, especially in a reproducible way. The word ''technology'' can also mean the products resulting from such efforts, including both tangible too ...

Exhibitions and Projects

* Why Future Still needs Us- AI and Humanity(2016): For the coming epoch of

Cognitive Revolution The cognitive revolution was an intellectual movement that began in the 1950s as an interdisciplinary study of the mind and its processes, from which emerged a new field known as cognitive science. The preexisting relevant fields were psychology, ...

, the exhibition, from November 2016 to January 2017, featured multilateral approaches to

Artificial Intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computer, computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making. It is a field of re ...

with artists, inventors, programmers. This exhibition introduced various artworks, bringing AI and various other fields together and produced by diverse artists such as Harshit Agrawal,

Maurice Benayoun Maurice Benayoun (aka MoBen or 莫奔) (born 29 March 1957) is a French new-media artist, curator, and theorist based in Paris and Hong Kong. His work employs various media, including video, computer graphics, immersive virtual reality, the ...

, Gene Kogan. * Nabi

Artist Residency Artist-in-residence (also Writer-in-residence), or artist residencies, encompass a wide spectrum of artistic programs that involve a collaboration between artists and hosting organisations, institutions, or communities. They are programs that pr ...

2016: an international residency program from July 25 to september 14, 2016. Media artists, Harshit Agrawal and Mischa Daams developed their artworks with Art Center Nabi's E.I.Lab creators. On the 24th of August they gave an artist talk. * Robot Theatre(2016): Employing Robot to the most human-like area, this exhibition pursued the idea of

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'Humanizing Technology'. Robot Theatre introduced a trend of modern art using robots in various areas such as music, performance, media art. *

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Party(2015): The exhibition Robot Party was held from December 2015 to January 2016. The Robot Party conveyed the interaction between humans and robots. Various artists, DIY makers, and Startups participated in the exhibitions. * Butterfly 2015(2015): The exhibition Butterfly 2015:

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Art was the series Butterfly of 2015 and demonstrated the wearable technology art, which employed the wearable computing technology as a tool for new expression and communication. Butterfly 2015 was produced by diverse artists such as Bang&Lee, HongBum Kim, Sanghwa Hong, Hyuns Hong, Chungyo Ha, MinHye Lee, Eunmi Jung, JaePil Choi, JiYe Kim and JiHyun Yun. * Makeable City(2015): The exhibition Makeable City was held together with the Global Summit 2015 -

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in Seoul in October 2015. The Makeable City is organized to convey the picture of the city as a new community created by creative makers, such as TeSoc Hah, NamHo Cho, DongHoon Park, YoungBae Suh, Hyun Park, and Dizi Riu. * Butterflies 2014(2014) *

SPECIAL EXHIBITION : HOMAGE TO GOOD MORNING MR. ORWELL(2014) * BEAM the Night(2013, 2014) * Nabi

hackathon A hackathon (also known as a hack day, hackfest, datathon or codefest; a portmanteau of '' hacking'' and ''marathon'') is an event where people engage in rapid and collaborative engineering over a relatively short period of time such as 24 or 48 h ...

(2013-) * INDAF(2010) * Come Join Us, Mr. Orwell!(2009) * P.Art.y(2007) * Trialogue(2001)

Education

* Goyang Media Art School of Dreams: This education program is designed for students from 9 to 15 years old. It was held from July 15, 2015 to February 4, 2016 and May 10 to December 23, 2016 * Creative Mentoring Program for Young Professionals: This education program is designed for people who want to create contents in

media art New media art includes artworks designed and produced by means of electronic media technologies. It comprises virtual art, computer graphics, computer animation, digital art, interactive art, sound art, Internet art, video games, robotics, 3D ...

robotics Robotics is the interdisciplinary study and practice of the design, construction, operation, and use of robots. Within mechanical engineering, robotics is the design and construction of the physical structures of robots, while in computer s ...

interaction design Interaction design, often abbreviated as IxD, is "the practice of designing interactive digital products, environments, systems, and services." While interaction design has an interest in form (similar to other design fields), its main area of foc ...

digital manufacturing Digital manufacturing is an integrated approach to manufacturing that is centered around a computer system. The transition to digital manufacturing has become more popular with the rise in the quantity and quality of computer systems in manufacturin ...

fields. * Media Art School of Dreams: This education program is designed for middle school students to experience the

design thinking Design thinking refers to the set of Cognition, cognitive, strategic and practical procedures used by designers in the process of designing, and to the body of knowledge that has been developed about how people reason when engaging with design prob ...

process and learn about

entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value in ways that generally entail beyond the minimal amount of risk (assumed by a traditional business), and potentially involving values besides simply economic ones. An entrepreneu ...

through hands-on activities.

Publications

* Digital Art by Director SohYeong Roh (published in 2014) * Lay Artists (published in 2012) * 10 Years of Art Center Nabi (published in 2010)

References

External links

*
Nabi Maker website
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Exhibitions and Projects

Education

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