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Link: LIFT evening Seoul (Sept. 12 2007, free event) | LIFT conference.

LIFT evening Seoul (Sept. 12 2007, free event)

Join us for a night in Seoul with Adam Greenfield, Bruce Sterling, XL games CEO Jake Song and Korean architect Yoo Suk Yeon to discuss real and digital spaces (english with live Korean translation).

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Spaces: From Real to Digital

How technological developments in both the physical worlds and virtual environments are reshaping our buildings, our games, and soon our web browsers.

Schedule

12 September 2007 in Seoul, South Korea

Talks: 4pm to 6pm

Drinks: 6pm to 8pm

4:00 - 4:10: Welcome and introduction

4:10 - 4:30: Adam Greenfield: "The City Is Here For You To Use"

Ambient informatics, read/write urbanism, schizogeography, urban computing and their impact on metropolitan experience

4:30 - 4:50: Bruce Sterling: "Industrial Products And Ubiquity."
Sustainable design, recycling, total life-cycle management, tags, radio-frequency identity, search engines, locative media, computer fabricators, industrial design, user records, metadata. web commerce, ubiquitous computing in the service of sustainability

4:50 - 5:10: Jake Song: "Trends and future of MMORPG"
MMORPGs are getting more popular and becoming major stream. Each part of the game system have been improved over last decade but the overall game structure hasn't changed. Jake will talk about technological and design challenges of MMORPG as a genre.

5:10 - 5:30: Yoo Suk Yeon: "Urban interface"

5:30 - 6:00: Group discussion and wrap-up.

6:00 - 8:00: Informal drinks at Asahi Orien (1 minute from the Art Hall)

Speakers

The following speakers will share their thoughts in english, with live translation in Korean.

• Adam Greenfield will show us the opportunities and problems of living in a world where technologies pervaded the physical space.

• The upcoming hybridization of the digital and the physical will be tackled by Bruce Sterling, who will also present what he, as a science-fiction writer and technology journalist expects.

• Korean architect Yoo Suk Yeon will then talk about the latest trends in architecture and how this hybridization is of importance.

• XL games CEO Jake Song, a South Korean programmer who is regarded as one of the greatest game developers in the country, will talk about the latest trends in multi-player gaming and how it might evolve in the near future.

Where

Conference

Yurim Art Hall

584-1, Shinsadong, Gangnamgu

Seoul, Korea
(Tel) 02-514-9600
p>BEWARE: seating is limited to 240 persons only! Register before it is too late!