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Science Club | (Re-)Viewing Paik: Automated curating, exhibit design and AR display

How would Augmented Reality change exhibition curating and design in the future? Join our June Science Club and learn how the ECAL and Nam June Paik Art Center are collaborating to develop a novel range of museums.

This month's speakers

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    Patrick Keller

    Associate Professor, ECAL / University of Art and Design Lausanne (HES-SO)

    Patrick Keller is an architect (B.S. & M.S in architecture from EPFL), associate professor and researcher at ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne (HES-SO), Switzerland, where he teaches in the Media & Interaction Design (MID) department. He is a founding member of the Lausanne-based collective of architects, artists and engineers fabric | ch, with whom he has contributed to the creation, development and exhibition of numerous experimental works dealing with the intersections between architecture, networks, data and environments.

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    Sang Ae Park

    Senior Archivist / Curator / Researcher, Nam June Paik Art Center

    Sang Ae Park is an archivist and Head of curatorial department at Nam June Paik Art Center, Korea. Her areas of practice are art museum and media art archive. Park manages and researches Nam June Paik Art Center archives and art collection. Among her recent projects are Paik’s archive and video archive management, Nam June Paik Art Center Interviews, video tape analysis, research monograph publication, and among others. She obtained her Ph.D. from Yonsei University, Seoul, for her dissertation A Study on Factors in Type-Specific Use of Video as an Information Source. She co-curated Extraordinary Phenomenon, Nam June Paik (2017) and Humor Has It (2021). She has edited research monographs including Paik-Abe Video Synthesizer (2011), Nam June Paik Art Center Interviews (2012-2020), and Paik-Abe Correspondence (2018). Park is interested in media art archive, single-artist museum archive, digital museum practice as well as digital archive.

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    Dr. Christian Babski

    fabric | ch, Lausanne

    Christian Babski is lead programmer and co-founder at fabric |ch, a studio for architecture, interaction and research based in Lausanne, Switzerland.

    As scientist, Christian Babski takes part in the technical and software development of research projects within the collective. Through experimental projects, he developed detailed skills in interfacing heterogeneous systems/mechanism/hardware by achieving specific software libraries in numerous distinct programming languages. Therefore, he is used to managing computer hardware, sensors, mobile devices as well as network and online technologies or services in the context of demanding cultural projects.

    Christian Babski holds a Phd in Computer Graphics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL, Lausanne), where he was involved into several European research projects. He previously graduated in Computer Science (Ma) in Dijon (France), prior to finalizing a Master of Science (M.Sc) in Lyon (France)/Geneva (Switzerland).