Chungbuk National University held a special lecture on the 22nd, inviting contemporary artist Shane Guffogg to speak on the theme From Einstein to AI: Art as a New Language. The event explored how the convergence of art and science-based technologies may shape future society.
Organized by the university’s Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, the lecture drew approximately 80 students and faculty members, reflecting strong interest in interdisciplinary dialogue between art and science. In his talk, Guffogg focused on the intersections of artificial intelligence (AI), quantum technology, and art, explaining through diverse examples how art can generate new forms of social language. He emphasized in particular that the layering of time, perception, and emotion can function as a new creative language within such convergence.
An open discussion followed the lecture, featuring active exchanges on how culture and technology, as well as art and science, can work in harmony. Participants broadly agreed that when future technologies meet artistic imagination, they can create new social value.
Park Jungeun, Director of Gallery Chang, commented, “This lecture was a serious forum for thinking deeply about the convergence of art and technology. It provided Chungbuk National University students with a meaningful opportunity to cultivate creative thinking within a global discourse.”
Kim Bong-jae, Director of the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, added, “Quantum computing should be recognized as a key technology leading the future beyond computer science,” noting that its core concept—the ‘superposition of time’—is closely connected to artistic imagination, a theme that Shane Guffogg has long explored through his work.
