Doppelgänger by K-Arts Art Collider Receives the Creative Support Fund from the Arts Council Korea

<Doppelgänger>, an immersive performance project produced by K-Arts Art Collider Art & Technology Lab (AT Lab) is chosen as one of the four final selections by the Arts Council Korea for the business of promoting art and technology.

<Doppelgänger> is an audience-engaging VR performance content that allows its audience to experience the journey of heading towards death from life. It is the most high-tech location-based VR performance within the nation. This content copies the performer’s location and behavior in real life that the participants can directly communicate with actors and share experiences with other participants while playing.

Professor Cho Chung-yeon, the head director of Art Collider, predicted, “The integration of VR and performing art as in this demonstration will become a standard of application model for directing virtual stages in the future.” He added, “The outcome of this project is meaningful, especially because we made it through cooperation. In this project, RECON Labs corporation, an AR/VR platform development company, and four departments in K-Arts – School of Film, TV & Multimedia, School of Visual Arts, School of Music, and School of Dance – participated. And this is what K-Arts is pursuing in convergence art education through high-tech for the future.”

As a creative research center, the AT Lab aims to integrate art, culture, technology, industry, and academia. Through worldwide academic and industrial cooperation with universities and research centers, it researches and creates content in immersive media, high-tech medical care, and artificial intelligence. In 2020, along with <Scarecrow> sponsored by Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA), other virtual reality contents adopting different high-tech applications such as networking in Nine VR and three-dimensional space scanning in <Rain Fruits> received invitations from film festivals from around the world: Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca, Cannes XR, VRHAM in Amsterdam, Kaoshiung in Taiwan. The AT Lab also signed an international distribution contract with Iconic Engine, a global content distributor. Now it sets the trends in the production and development of realistic media.