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2022.01.25

The K-Arts Art & Technology Lab (President Daejin Kim) presented the third product of the industry-academia collaboration project between TikTok, a global video platform, and K-Arts AT Lab, <Anti-Climax>, as a showcase on January 21.

* Showcase video: https://bit.ly/3fwrqL5

<Anti-Climax>, which was featured in the showcase, is an interactive story with a different ending based on the viewer's choices, as promoted by TikTok's vertical cinema account, @verticalshortfilm.

TikTok and K-Arts have previously screened 12 shortforms ranging from one to three minutes, including <For Symmetric People,> directed by KKYU FILM, which has garnered more than 1.9 million views in the 2021 showcase.

This showcase is the third installment of the ‘TikTok for Good’ project, an industry-academia collaboration between K-Arts and TikTok Shortform Creators, which was held for one year from March 2020 to February 2021 through the School of Film, TV & Multimedia as part of TikTok's global social contribution project, and is held on a seasonal basis. A total of 12 works were produced in the same season, including 9 short forms, 2 interactive dramas, and 1 series drama, including this showcase, <Anti-Climax>.

Meanwhile, AT Lab is a creation and production laboratory that aims to converge science and technology, cultural arts, industry, and education, and its works, such as the fusion virtual reality works <Scarecrow> and <Rain Fruits,> have been invited to the world's leading-edge film festivals such as Sundance Film Festival, South by Southwest (SXSW), Tribeca, and Cannes Film Festival XR, and have won numerous major awards, and are leading global trends in realistic media, advanced medical care, and artificial intelligence content through collaborations with leading domestic and foreign companies and research institutes such as LG U+, SKT, and TikTok. In 2021, he was selected as a 'Leading Graduate School for Culture and Technology' by the Korea Creative Content Agency, and is working with Pohang University of Technology to build a content metaverse utilizing artificial intelligence and augmented reality.