SEMI RYU (류세미)

Virtual puppet company “CoPuppet” has been established!! CoPuppet is a virtual puppet company producing live 3D interactive performances that explore issues of bodies and experiences between virtual and actual space.  The idea of a puppet company is dynamically expanded by using virtual puppets (3D interactive bodies) in a trans-disciplinary discussion between art, technology, and humanity.…

My paper “Virtual puppetry assisting the elder’s life review” was invited for presentation and publication at ISEA 2013(International Symposium on Electronic Arts), to be held in Sydney, Australia, from June 7 to 16. I am going to Australia!!!

Kinetic/Performative 2012” In a fusion of performative acts, gaze and site, the Department of Kinetic Imaging explores multiple dimensions of performances at FAB Gallery in the Fine Arts Building. Live acts will be performed with kinetic camera, under the themes: performative body, drawing, noise, voice, game and network. The aftermath of each performance will be…

Parting on Z from Semi Ryu on Vimeo. This is video documentation of a live virtual puppet performance called “Parting on Z,” demonstrating the technical/conceptual side of my previous virtual puppetry projects, exploring human-computer interaction and relationships between the emotional psyche of the user (puppeteer) and avatar (virtual puppet). The video includes highlights from previous projects, showing elements of mixed…

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,…

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.