Our friend Andrea Bianchi is organizing a Lift@home in Seoul tomorrow! Join him at Sogang University to explore the furute of audio and sound technology!

Sound Waves from the Future

3 talks for 3 perspective over the future of Audio and Sound Technology in music and art. Since this event is the result of the joint collaboration between 2 organizations, Lift@Home and Dorkbot Seoul, presenters will both provide a technical overview of their fields and a personal interpretations over the current trends and the future directions of audio technology.

Speakers

Woon Seung Yeo, Assistant Professor at KAIST
"I want you to make music" (20 minutes, Korean (English Slides))

Rev. Gregory M. Schroeder, Dorkbot Seoul
"Digital Audio Synthesis for Mortals (with Retrospective)" (20 minutes, English)

Baruch Gottlieb, Artist at Institute for Time-Based Media, University of of Art, Berlin
"Past in the Immediate Future, Listening to Seoul Soundscape" (20 minutes, English)

The presentations will be followed by a Q&A session with the speakers.

More information and registration here.

We have a last minute addition to the Lift Asia 09 program, a panel with three of the pioneers who helped create the internet industry in Korea!

20 years of Korean internet
The pioneers who built the Korean internet will share their story, reflecting on a soon-to-be 20 years old industry, offering insights on the future of a media that went from being an early adopter tool to become a society changing technology used by 40 million people in Korea.

Speakers:
• Jin Ho Hur, CEO of Neowiz, operators of Korea's second largest social network.
• Jaewoong Lee, Founder of Daum
• Soon Hyun Hwang, Vice President, NC Soft

This is quite big to have these guys on stage sharing their experience on how they helped make Korea the world's most wired country! Grab one of the remaining tickets and join us at Lift Asia on Thursday!

Korean time is much faster than even dog years :)

We are very happy to announce that Chul Shin has accepted our invitation to participate as a speaker at Lift Asia 09. The legendary film producer, who created with Taekon V on of the most beloved characters in anime, will share with the audience his experience in film production.

Chul Shin will speak in the Storytelling session on Thursday afternoon with TED video director Jashon Wishnow and Julian Bleeker from Nokia Design.

Learn more about Chul Shin on his speaker profile and see some Taekwon V taekwondo movies here and here and here on Youtube :)

Soh Yeong Roh, director from Art Center Nabi in Seoul, gives her perspective the importance of spirituality and art as a way to question the values of our technophile culture. Based on her experience and a strong south-asian flavor, she shows how art can create "creative communities" that can work as engine for social development (socio-cultural-economic) for our knowledge based society.

Soh Yeong Roh, director from Art Center Nabi in Seoul, gives her perspective the importance of spirituality and art as a way to question the values of our technophile culture. Based on her experience and a strong south-asian flavor, she shows how art can create "creative communities" that can work as engine for social development (socio-cultural-economic) for our knowledge based society.

Chang Kim, the CEO of TNC (Korea's leading provider of professional blog solutions) discusses the evolution of the social web by addressing four issues: the homepage evolution, the need for data portability, the difference between online/offline relationships and how content authoring is not an homogeneous skill.

Chang Kim, the CEO of TNC (Korea's leading provider of professional blog solutions) discusses the evolution of the social web by addressing four issues: the homepage evolution, the need for data portability, the difference between online/offline relationships and how content authoring is not an homogeneous skill.

Bruce Sterling, science-fiction and tech journalist - and Lift's "big thinker in residence" - talks about the implications of money digitization. His though-provoking presentation deals with how virtual money systems are the financial services for the new urban poor.

"When you are working on cell phones, when you are working on the web, when you are working on electronic money and payment systems, you need to think: What if my user is a North-Korean"

How would I do this differently if I knew my user was from Pyongyang, that his regime had collapsed, that his economy had collapsed, he was completely bewildered, and he had never seen a cell phone or a computer in his life, and I intended to make him a productive and happy fellow citizen in ten years, what kind of technology would I give that person, what kind of trading system, economic system?”

After Octopus sashimi and rotten pink fish, I had live shrimps yesterday night as this video will show.

If you travel to Lift Asia be sure to ask a Korean friend to take you to a sashimi place, it is a really unique experience you will never forget, plus it is good and healthy!