(Re-)Viewing Paik

This research combines new artificial intelligence/machine learning techniques (AI/ML) and automated rule-based design, or computational design (CD), with augmented reality displays (AR) on personal smart phones or tablets, in order to set up personal digital museums, "viewing rooms" and galleries. These latter are then experienced in an immersive way (both AR, VR and projections are possible), respecting a relationship of scale between the viewer and the artworks, from any remote location and from the viewpoint of the visitor, while being autonomously tailored to it.

(Re-)Viewing Paik thus offers an innovative and personalized form of remote exhibition, while the research results remain dedicated to both curators ("tool side", or server side) and online visitors ("exhibition side", or client side). In particular, they are linked to the valorization of media art forms and archives, which are naturally adapted to digital screens and displays, while they nevertheless seek a versatile and immersive potential in the ways they are presented to the public.

The Nam June Paik archives, located in Yongin (Seoul Capital Area), are an exceptional and almost perfect case study for these objectives, as the main purpose and relevance of the research is to provide access to a selected part of the Nam June Paik archives (and later, by generalizing, to the entire archive or to any type of digital art, or digitized art content). This is unique opportunity for a practice-based research, and for importing innovative insights into the algorithms of the automation tool to be further elaborated, temporarily entitled Atomized (algorithmic) Functioning.