Semi will present her paper ” Crying with the virtual” which will be published in the conference proceedings and Leonardo Electronic Almanac(MIT press).

Semi will also speaks on the panel “Emotion Studies in a Contemporary Art Debate.”

( Chair: Barbara Rauch, Panels: Dee Hibbert-Jones, Heather Kapplow, Mark Palmer, Semi Ryu, Kristin Stransky Mallinger, Joan Truckenbrod)

Project title: Egyptian Ceremony in the Virtual Temple- Avatars for Virtual Heritage

This is a team project led by PublicVR. My role is the senior advisor, developing Interactive design, the narrative/script and choreography of the virtual performance rituals, which will be presented at Carnegie Museum of Natural History.

Virtual Puppet performance “Parting on Z, Sao Paulo”

Paper “Ritual Object: Parting on Z”

Soft Borders conference: 4th Upgrade! International Network Conference and Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Oct. 18- 21, 2010.

Paper “Virtual puppet, my love impossible”

Metaverse, Creativity, Intellect ltd, Bristol, United Kingdom, 2010 Fall. (Editor: Elif Ayiter/Yacov Sharir, The Editorial board includes: Beth Harris, the director of digital studies at MOMA, Steven Zucker, the dean of graduate studies at FIT, Howard Rheingold, Stanford University) 

Paper “Searching for Love Impossible”

Technoetic Arts 8.2.: Intellect, Bristol, UK, 2010. (Editor: Roy Ascott)

Virtual Puppet performance “Parting on Z, London”

Speech “Exploring Han in Virtual Puppetry”

Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts 2010(Sensual Technologies: Collaborative Practices of Interdisciplinarity), Brunel University, London, Sep. 5 – 8, 2010.

Exhibition of Virtual puppetry Parting on Z (video and text documentation)

The SCIENAR exhibition, the National University of Art (UNA, Universitatea Nationale de Arte), Bucarest, Romania: May. 31- Jun. 6, 2010.

Paper “Parting on Z: Virtual puppetry + Pansori”

Biennial Symposium for Arts and Technology, The Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology, Connecticut College: March 4 – 6, 2010.

 Semi just arrived at Munich and had drinks with Planetary Collegium friends: Jeniffer and Max in this photo

German beer with lots of meats!!

with Roy Ascott and Enrica. It was great to see Roy again..

 Panel discussion

Derrick de Kerkhove’s speech is always passionate..

Roy’s presentation

My presentation was about the conceptual background of my virtual puppetry “Parting on Z”, talking about paradoxical aspect of human experience. It went successful, receiving great responses, and continuing discussions from presenters.

In my panel, there were other panelists:

•  Jon Ippolito
  Researcher, University of Maine. Former curator, Guggenheim, New York
•  Amanda McDonald Crowley
  Director Eyebeam. New York
•  Ela Kagel
  Project curator of the Transmediale Festival. Berlin
•  Joline Blais
  Co-founder Sill Water. USA, Author of the book “The edge of art”
•  Gunalan Nadarajan
  Art Theorist / Curator. USA / Singapore

Jon Ippolito & Joline Blais

This symposium invited about 30 people from the world, mostly director of organizations. See the list of presenters here.

http://www.espacioenter.com/FUTURE_NOW_speakers.htm

 For full program,

http://www.espacioenter.com/programa.htm

For museum (symposium place: Espaciocenter ),

http://www.teatenerife.es/

PARTING ON Z: Virtual Interactive Puppetry + Pansori

See VIDEO DOCUMENTATION of PERFORMANCE

See VIDEO DOCUMENTATION of REHEARSAL

See IMAGES & PHOTOS

See Information of PARTING ON Z