Congratulations on the opening of the 27th Advanced Imaging International Festival.

AIIF has reached its twenty-seventh year thanks to the continued dedication and support of the researchers, artists, and students who have taken part in the festival over the years. The BK21 FOUR Educational Research Institute for AI-Contents Future Industry at Chung-Ang University has also continued its efforts to broaden the foundations of education, research, and creative practice across AI and content, while supporting AIIF as a platform for exchange where diverse perspectives and experiences can come together.

This year, under the theme “AI^ver.7.0 : Dancing Signs,” AIIF explores the different ways in which humans and artificial intelligence perceive and interpret images and signs. Just as encoded signs form meaning and narrative through repetition and arrangement, the festival considers how images and signs in the age of AI are connected to generate new meanings and narratives through its three programs: Exhibition, Conference, and Film.

This year also introduces the AI Film Showcase, presenting emerging currents in AI-based creative practice and further expanding the possibilities of filmmaking with artificial intelligence.

I hope AIIF 2026 will offer an opportunity to discover new directions for creative practice and research at the intersection of technology and art, and to imagine the future of art with artificial intelligence from a range of perspectives.

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It is a great pleasure to celebrate the opening of the 27th Advanced Imaging International Festival.

AIIF reflects the integration of art and technology, research and creative practice that the Graduate School of Advanced Imaging Science, Multimedia & Film at Chung-Ang University has long pursued. Each year, the festival has provided an opportunity to explore emerging technologies and changes in the media landscape, while serving as a platform for exchange where researchers, artists, and students from Korea and abroad share their perspectives and achievements.

This year's theme, “AI^ver.7.0 : Dancing Signs,” focuses on the relationship between humans and artificial intelligence as they perceive and interpret images, language, sound, and movement in different ways. By exploring how a single sign takes on meaning and develops into new images and stories, the theme invites us to reconsider the ways we create and communicate in the age of AI.

Through this year's festival, we will encounter diverse achievements in research and creative practice that explore how artificial intelligence and advanced imaging technologies are transforming our senses and perceptions, while giving rise to new meanings and narratives. I hope these encounters and exchanges will bring different disciplines together and inspire new questions and possibilities for creative expression.

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to all the participants from Korea and abroad, as well as the faculty, researchers, and students who have contributed to making AIIF 2026 possible. May this festival be a meaningful occasion for us to imagine together the future of art and content that we will continue to shape.

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As AIIF 2026 opens, I am delighted to celebrate this meaningful occasion and to see 19 AI films created by Chinese students through an international educational program of the Graduate School of Advanced Imaging Science, Multimedia & Film at Chung-Ang University presented as part of this year’s exhibition and screening.

These films are not simply the result of using artificial intelligence as a new technology. They reflect each student’s process of learning, experimentation, and creative discovery. AI is rapidly transforming the way images and stories are created, yet it is ultimately human imagination, perspective, and questioning that give technology direction and artistic meaning.

I hope this exhibition will become a space where different cultural perspectives meet, inspire one another, and open new possibilities for creation.

As Advisor, I sincerely thank everyone who contributed to this program and exhibition. Above all, I extend my warmest congratulations to all the participating students on their creative achievements.

Congratulations on the opening of AIIF 2026, and may these 19 AI films become a meaningful starting point for further creation and international exchange.

Thank you.