The UCLA Art | Sci Center is excited to announce its new partnership with The Smart Image Content Research Center, uniting art, science, and innovation through collaborative exploration.

Hak Gu Kim
Hak Gu Kim is an Assistant Professor at Graduate School of Advanced Imaging Science, Multimedia & Films (GSAIM), Chung-Ang University, where he is leading Immersive Reality & Integrated Systems Lab (IRIS LAB). Before joining Chung-Ang University, He was a postdoctoral researcher in School of Computer and Communication Sciences (IC), a visiting postdoctoral researcher in Electrical Engineering at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in School of Electronic Engineering at Inha University, Incheon, Korea, in 2012 and 2014, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in School of Electrical Engineering at KAIST, Daejeon, Korea, in 2019. His research interests lie in developing state-of-the-art machine learning and deep learning-based integrated systems to shape the future of immersive reality (e.g., 3D, AR, VR, XR, Metaverse), focusing on the convergence of generative AI and reality.

Hyeokjun Kweon
Hyeokjun Kweon is an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Advanced Imaging Science, Multimedia & Film (GSAIM), Chung-Ang University. He currently leads the Foundational Vision Laboratory (FoV LAB). He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from KAIST in 2018, 2020, and 2025, respectively. His research interests include computer vision and deep learning. He is particularly interested in how intelligent visual systems can learn effectively from limited data, adapt dynamically across domains, and collaborate meaningfully with humans. His long-term goal is to develop generalizable and human-aligned visual AI models that can serve as reliable companions in real-world applications. His research has been selected for an oral presentation at CVPR 2024 (top 0.8% of 11,532 submissions) and a highlight paper at CVPR 2025 (top 2.6% of 13,008 submissions).

Jihyong Oh
Jihyong Oh is an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Advanced Imaging Science, Multimedia & Film (GSAIM) at Chung-Ang University (CAU; Seoul, South Korea), and has been leading the Creative Vision and Multimedia Lab (https://cmlab.cau.ac.kr/) since September 2023. Prior to this, he was a postdoctoral researcher at VICLAB at KAIST (Daejeon, South Korea). He received his B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from KAIST in 2017, 2019, and 2023, respectively. He was a research intern at Meta Reality Labs in 2022. His research primarily focuses on low-level vision, image/video restoration, 3D vision, and generative AI. He has published papers at CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, AAAI, TPAMI, TCSVT, and Remote Sensing, and serves as a reviewer for these conferences and journals, as well as for SIGGRAPH and IEEE TPAMI, TIP, TGRS, and Access. He received Outstanding Reviewer Awards for ICCV 2021 and CVPR 2024.

Jin Wan Park
Jin Wan Park is a Professor at the Graduate School of Advanced Imaging Science, Multimedia & Film (GSAIM), Chung-Ang University. He received his MFA in Computer Animation and Interactive Media from Pratt Institute in 1998, during which his animation "BUG" was selected for the SIGGRAPH Electronic Theater Program. He also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Chung-Ang University. As both an artist and a scientist, Professor Park’s work centers on pioneering new forms of artistic expression made possible through advances in science and technology. His distinguished career includes roles as Director General of R&D at Korea’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and as Dean of the Graduate School of Advanced Imaging Science at Chung-Ang University. Currently, he leads the BK21 project group for AI & Contents. Professor Park’s creative achievements have been showcased in dozens of international exhibitions—including over ten appearances at the SIGGRAPH Art Gallery—and he has authored more than 180 academic papers, with four published in Leonardo. Additionally, he has served four times as the Art Gallery Director for ISEA and SIGGRAPH in Asia.

Sanglim Han
Sanglim Han is a media artist, researcher, and Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Advanced Imaging Science, Multimedia & Film (GSAIM) at Chung-Ang University, where she also serves as the director of the Generative Media Art Lab. Her practice involves creating generative media art that transforms data into sensory experiences. Using technologies like AI and VR, she critically examines contemporary techno-culture by building virtual worlds where digital nature and algorithm-driven materiality coexist. Her work has been presented extensively across North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Notable solo exhibitions include the “Digital Ecologies of the Self” at the International Conference on Videogame Science and Arts and an exhibition at the San Diego Media Arts Center. She has participated in major international festivals such as the QLD XR Festival, Ars Electronica, the PROYECTOR Festival, and Video Vortex XI at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale. Han has presented at prestigious academic forums, including the International Symposium on Electronic Art and the Biennial Symposium for Arts and Technology. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her MFA from UCLA.

The UCLA Art|Sci Center invites you to join us for the culminating event of the Atmosphere of Sound series, presented as part of the Getty Pacific Standard Time initiative. This final offering takes the form of a participatory soundwalk titled Breathing for Interdependence, created by Polish artist and theorist Anna Nacher.

Designed as a 20-minute journey from the North to the South side of the UCLA campus, the walk is a meditative exploration of breath, environment, and interconnectedness. Anna’s soundwalk will lead you from the north of the UCLA campus to the south, along the axis that literally links Arts to Science. From the Broad Art Center, through Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden and Royce Hall, to the premises of Mathematical Sciences and Geology. It becomes an exercise in embodied practice of interdependence, reflecting on how fields often considered separate are in fact mutually co-constitutive. At the same time, the soundwalk will also allow one to sense the simple act of breathing as a form combining regenerative healing practice with social and cultural insights on the roots of contemporary crises: ecological, social, and political. The walk ends at the Field School of Public Health and Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden, emphasizing that healing is a process in which people cannot be separated from the broader ecologies of environment, communities, and institutions. It ultimately grounds the walkable connection between Arts and Science in a broader system of life support that should be made available to all beings.

Friday, May 30, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
More Info: soundofatmosphere.com

Speaker: JoAnn Kuchera-Morin and Frederick Janka
Responders: Shannon Kennedy and Manjari Sharma

MAY 10, 2025, 10am PST / 1pm EST

Our two co-presenters will be discussing four objects from the David Bermant Foundation Collection: Nam June Paik, Participation TV, 1969; Otto Piene, Light Ballet I; Marcel Duchamp, Rotorelief (optical discs) 1935-1953, edition c. 1965, and Alejandro & Moira Sina, Spinning Shaft 1978, 1983. Drawing connections between these artworks and current and upcoming artworks and projects at the Allosphere and the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, including DJ Javier: San Milano Drive (October 2025) and Falling into the Future: Kinetic Art at the Edge of the World (October 2026)

COLOR, LIGHT, MOTION is an online series featuring media artists and scholars in dialogue about artworks from the Bermant Collection of media and kinetic arts. Each featured presenter will discuss selected artworks in history and context and in relation to their own work and connections. This series is produced in collaboration with Harvestworks NY and the David Bermant Foundation.

Full Episode Recording: https://youtu.be/iJato8Ah6Ps
David Bermant Foundation: https://davidbermantfoundation.org