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We have the pleasure to announce our next Lift Event in Korea, which will take place in April 2012 in Seoul. The Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Presence Switzerland mandated us to curate a Lift event in Seoul, taking place prior to the 2012 Expo in Yeosu.

The Lift event, under the code name “Swiss-Korean Innovation Night” will feature the traditional Lift ingredients: disruptive ideas, inspiring projects, carefully prepared speeches from pioneers of their fields and entertaining social events in a beautifully designed space.

The mission of the Swiss-Korean Innovation Night

• Enhance ties between both countries in the long term by connecting Swiss and Korean innovators
• Explore fields of innovation where Switzerland can contribute most: Robotics, design, luxury 2.0, craftsmanship, med tech, social innovation and culture!
• Promote a future-oriented Switzerland driven by innovation, creativity, technology and design
• Celebrate innovation!

Take your chance: submit your project!

We are looking for innovative, surprising and entertaining Swiss and Korean projects. The objective of the event is to offer participants the opportunity to witness exclusive demos and explore surprising prototypes. The projects must be very visual, engaging and ideally interactive, as they will be featured in an exhibition.

Further criteria

• Your project, prototype or demo should be quite easy to transport
• Good storytelling: you should enjoy present your project to an audience of 200-300 persons in English or Korean
• We are looking for projects from the fields of robotics, interactive installations (VJs, performance, sensors, new interfaces etc), design, craftsmanship, med tech, luxury 2.0, social innovation and culture

Andrea Bianchi and his team are running a massive Lift @ home event tomorrow in Seoul. 350 participants have registered to explore current and future trends in Digital Architecture and Large Scale Media Art. Topics covered will include digital facades, urban informatics, urban art, media art, generative architecture.

Speakers

Seongtae Park, Curator of TedxSeoul and Editorial Adviser of Space Magazine
"Moderator" (Korean)

Jung Soik, Associate Curator at Anyang Public Art Project Foundation
"Urban Media Art" (20 minutes, Korean)

Jie-Eun Hwang, D.Des,, Assistant Professor at University of Seoul
"Heuristic Learning from the City" (20 minutes, Korean)

Byeong Sam Jeon, President at KOIAN
"The Intersection among Media Art, Public Sculpture and ..." (20 minutes, Korean)

David Hall, Professor of digital media at Hongik University, Seoul
"Physical and Synthetic Space" (20 minutes, English)

Jihoon Byun, Professor at KAIST Graduate School of Culture Technology
"Media.aesthetic.draw();" (20 minutes, Korean)

Will Craig, Manager, Founder of the Digital Design Research Group, Heerim at Heerim
"Digital In: Analog Out" (20 minutes, English)

More information and registration here.

If you read Monocle, you will find in this month's edition a profile of Hojun Song, the front man of the Open Source Satellite Initiative who gave one of the most appreciated talk at Lift Asia 09 (video coming this month).

Hojun Song's is difficult categorise. ln which box would "launching a satellite" belong? Based in Seoul, where he gained an engineering degree, Song is planning to launch and operate a small satellite. If he succeeds, he will be the first individual do it.

Link (full article is for Monocle subscribers only)

Our friend Andrea Bianchi is organizing a Lift@home in Seoul tomorrow! Join him at Sogang University to explore the furute of audio and sound technology!

Sound Waves from the Future

3 talks for 3 perspective over the future of Audio and Sound Technology in music and art. Since this event is the result of the joint collaboration between 2 organizations, Lift@Home and Dorkbot Seoul, presenters will both provide a technical overview of their fields and a personal interpretations over the current trends and the future directions of audio technology.

Speakers

Woon Seung Yeo, Assistant Professor at KAIST
"I want you to make music" (20 minutes, Korean (English Slides))

Rev. Gregory M. Schroeder, Dorkbot Seoul
"Digital Audio Synthesis for Mortals (with Retrospective)" (20 minutes, English)

Baruch Gottlieb, Artist at Institute for Time-Based Media, University of of Art, Berlin
"Past in the Immediate Future, Listening to Seoul Soundscape" (20 minutes, English)

The presentations will be followed by a Q&A session with the speakers.

More information and registration here.

We have a last minute addition to the Lift Asia 09 program, a panel with three of the pioneers who helped create the internet industry in Korea!

20 years of Korean internet
The pioneers who built the Korean internet will share their story, reflecting on a soon-to-be 20 years old industry, offering insights on the future of a media that went from being an early adopter tool to become a society changing technology used by 40 million people in Korea.

Speakers:
• Jin Ho Hur, CEO of Neowiz, operators of Korea's second largest social network.
• Jaewoong Lee, Founder of Daum
• Soon Hyun Hwang, Vice President, NC Soft

This is quite big to have these guys on stage sharing their experience on how they helped make Korea the world's most wired country! Grab one of the remaining tickets and join us at Lift Asia on Thursday!

Korean time is much faster than even dog years :)

We are very happy to announce that Chul Shin has accepted our invitation to participate as a speaker at Lift Asia 09. The legendary film producer, who created with Taekon V on of the most beloved characters in anime, will share with the audience his experience in film production.

Chul Shin will speak in the Storytelling session on Thursday afternoon with TED video director Jashon Wishnow and Julian Bleeker from Nokia Design.

Learn more about Chul Shin on his speaker profile and see some Taekwon V taekwondo movies here and here and here on Youtube :)

Soh Yeong Roh, director from Art Center Nabi in Seoul, gives her perspective the importance of spirituality and art as a way to question the values of our technophile culture. Based on her experience and a strong south-asian flavor, she shows how art can create "creative communities" that can work as engine for social development (socio-cultural-economic) for our knowledge based society.

Soh Yeong Roh, director from Art Center Nabi in Seoul, gives her perspective the importance of spirituality and art as a way to question the values of our technophile culture. Based on her experience and a strong south-asian flavor, she shows how art can create "creative communities" that can work as engine for social development (socio-cultural-economic) for our knowledge based society.

Chang Kim, the CEO of TNC (Korea's leading provider of professional blog solutions) discusses the evolution of the social web by addressing four issues: the homepage evolution, the need for data portability, the difference between online/offline relationships and how content authoring is not an homogeneous skill.