Artist Eun Woo Cho\'s work describes the correlation between art and science, reality and virtuality, and humans and technology. As explained by Professor Max Tegmark (MIT), author Eun Woo Cho is convinced that we have now entered the era of Life 3.0, where humans can escape the shackles of death and design their own hardware (body and thoughts).
As explained above, Cho moves away from AI pessimism or optimistic hypotheses but focuses on the essence of the human brain and mind, which is the basis of AI. Cho explains that the finiteness of existence and the limitations of the body cannot be overcome with technologies such as AI, but begin with a consideration of human origins.
Through this lecture, the author studies the brain and brain waves, the first model of artificial intelligence, implements the technology, and applies it to art, exploring the coexistence of humans and technology.

AI, Brain Wave & Ideal City No.2} Eun Woo Cho’ s work {AI, Brain Wave & Ideal City} invites the spectator to wear a wireless EEG headset and look at body parts (e.g., brains, arms, legs, and torsos) cast by the artist and illuminated with superimposed images of the spectator and the lighting activated by his or her brain wave responses. This symbolizes how one coexists in relationships with others and reflects on what would happen if one’ s responses, representing information, are translated into data and fully exposed to everyone else.

Cho’s core research theme, “the duplexity of human existence and technology, ” is divided into two questions: First, do machines control humans? Second, do machines determine the actions of humans? Cho’s works feature an intriguing composition of the relationship between the scientific convergent installations and the participants. One characteristic of her work is that it is incomplete without the human participant as if it were broken machinery. The artist uses the human brain, especially the brain wave (Bio Signal Interface), which is the original model of AI, to breathe life into the work with the human mind & think into inanimate objects (artworks). For instance, her most famous work,{AI, Brain Wave & Ideal City}, uses brain waves to operate the installation’s lights. Another work,{Brain Wave & Polyphonic}, likewise uses brain waves to operate the speakers. When the participant approaches the unlit installation while wearing the electroencephalography (EEG), he or she can watch his or her brain waves shining like a rain of jewels. Cho constructs an interactive installation piece synchronized with the brain waves, which symbolize the human, robot, and mutant. The program that she uses to manipulate the light through the brain waves symbolizes the prelude to HyperScan, and these methods posit the phenomena that will happen in a fully opened networking space, featuring the complete deconstruction of the boundary between the “I ” and “other, ” where the thoughts of the individual disappear and all information are shared and exposed. She expands the concept of a “city, ” a space sometimes recognized as simply a physical space to one of coexistence shared by multiple people, and uses it as the basis for her installations to bring together the hologram materials and brain waves.