《Deep.PhotoPlay》 is an interactive VR artwork that uses deep learning-based cooperative AI and immersive VR as its main strategies. It reenacts a silent-film, a Korean cultural heritage, disseminates artistic values, and ultimately realizes remediation.
The material for this artwork is the silent-film <There is No Poverty at the End of Labor> (12 minutes, estimated to have been produced in the 1920s) discovered by the Korean Film Archive (KOFA) at the Gosfilmofound of Russia in 2019. As the title suggests, it depicts the life and history of people escaping poverty through hard work. In particular, it is an important piece of cultural heritage that fills gaps in knowledge of early Korean film history. It is an action-film in which performances of piano and string instruments and narration are harmonized. Through cooperation with the KOFA, we discovered that the audience's immersion comes primarily from sounds in the film, which convey the scenes' atmosphere and expand the actors' emotions.
