The Advanced Imaging International Festival (AIIF) is an international exchange event co-hosted by the Graduate School of Advanced Imaging Science, Multimedia & Film, the BK21 FOUR Educational Research Institute for AI-Contents Future Industry, and the Smart Image Content Research Center at Chung-Ang University. Through exhibition, conference and film programs, it shares research and creative work in AI and advanced imaging, and brings researchers, artists and students from Korea and abroad together to exchange ideas.

This year's theme, AI^ver.7.0 : Dancing Signs, takes as its motif the coded figures of Arthur Conan Doyle's “The Adventure of the Dancing Men.” Shapes that first look like simple drawings are read as a pattern through repetition and arrangement, and, once deciphered, become a message and a story. Today, AI likewise reads images, language and movement as relations of patterns and signs. The festival looks at how humans — through memory, emotion and experience — and machines — through patterns in data — read images and signs differently, and how those signs connect into new meanings and stories.