Sey Min - Lift Asia Experience's curator from the Nabi Art Center - is adding more information about the installations she will present at the conference. Lonely C - a visualization of relationships between the conference participants - is the latest addition:

Creators... i believe there are so many people whose blood type is C (like Creators, Connectors, Curators etc). 'Arconn' is a Project Randomwalks's work that can encourage those C-Type people around the world to connect and know each others because we believe if it happens, more great potential of us will show up, we still just don't know what we are fully capable of. And 'Lonely C' is another dialect of visualizing data of Arconn that can reveal relationships and procedures between it. Creators, Curators, Connectors are depicted as simple Cubes and they form a little ecosystem. we can watch those data through both microscopic and macroscopic perspectives. Audience is another C (Computer : since human can be thought as a very complex computer) who can synthesize these small parts into one big meaningful context. a Story.

More on Lonely C

Check the Lift Asia Experience page for more information, and bring a curious and open minded attitude to the event, to participate in all the activities that will be proposed!

Sey Min, curator of the Lift Asia 08 Experience, published more information about Bonding Company, the concept she will be presenting during the conference. Attendees will be invited to visit four distinct zones called Opening, Sharing, Sparkling and Expanding.

Discover "LOVE Shaker 2.0", "Wind", "NowThen. Crowded?" and all the other art installations to be presented during the conference by the Nabi Art Center.

More information on the Lift Experience page.

Lift Asia experience curator Sey Min published a short explanation of the concept she will develop during the conference in Jeju Island:

We all live different lives: we come from different backgrounds and cultures — different life experiences. Our lives and relationships have had a big transition due to the rapid development in technology, and they are still revolving. One of the obstacles human beings MUST get though is how to communicate with each other when we all come from different backgrounds and have different perspectives. Each one of us is very special and unique—not only physically, but also in spirit.

In this new digital era, how does technology help us get closer to each other?

What does “getting closer” mean to us now?

How do human beings keep each other company without losing connection?

The project “Bonding Company” is an experimental showcase for the ‘opening, sharing, sparkling, and expanding’ in communication.

Read more on the Lift experience page!

We are proud and excited to announce that the Nabi Art Center will partner with us to organize the Lift Asia experience! Nabi is one of the most recognized and forward thinking art center in Korea, created by our friend Soh Yeong Roh (a name you might have heard of at Ars Electronica). Nabi organizes one of Seoul's freshest event - the famous P.Art.y - that some of you attended after Lift evening Seoul 2007.

^{Pictures from Nabi's latest expo called Shall we}

We have been working with Nabi for a while to prepare various projects and make your time at Lift Asia special and unique. The curators of Nabi have created the experience around a central theme: the new revolution in ‘human relationship’. Lifters will come across three distinct zones, each with a different role. The ice-breaking zone will allow the artworks and observers to meet and open up to each other. Then the sharing zone will allow you to see where others are from, their common interests and similarities. Last but not least comes the sparkling zone, but that is a surprise ;)

Discover the LIFT experience, a series of activities inviting LIFTers to get together, create and share.

Michael Scholl made an amazing series of timelapse videos. Here is what happens during the breaks!

Web 2.0 meets Marxist (Foucaultian?) economic theory in the latest video from Austrian subversive art collective http://www.monochrom.at/english/

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http://tv.boingboing.net/2008/02/15/monochroms-marxist-s.html

Go see for yourself. The are pretty good. And smart. And on-topic.
Enjoy!

Michael Scholl made an amazing series of timelapse videos. Here is what happens during the last day break inside the main room.

The LIFT songs are now online! Check them out here, and be sure to listen to Marie Laure's winning tune!

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