KAIST professor and media artist Jinjoon Lee has unveiled a landmark interdisciplinary project in collaboration with global K-pop icon and fellow KAIST professor, G-Dragon (Kwon Ji-yong) at KAIST Space Institute on 9th April 2025. Titled Good Morning Mr. G-Dragon, the project merges art, science, and emotion in an unprecedented act: the transmission of G-Dragon’s music and biometric iris data into outer space via satellite.
At the heart of this experiment is a generative AI media artwork based on G-Dragon’s iris imagery, combined with the emotional resonance of his track Home Sweet Home. This data was launched into space using KAIST’s satellite technology, forming a poetic signal directed beyond the Earth, resonating with the vision of NASA’s SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) programme—forming a speculative message across the cosmos.
Far beyond conventional media art, this project brings together advanced AI, biosignal processing, and space communication technologies, in a collaboration that includes KAIST Space Institute, Ama Studio, and Galaxy Corporation. Professor Lee describes the work as “a cosmic inquiry into the emotional depth of human existence in the age of AI”, reframing how we communicate in a post-digital world.
The title Good Morning, Mr. G-Dragon is a contemporary homage to Nam June Paik’s 1984 satellite broadcast Good Morning Mr. Orwell. By reinterpreting Paik’s vision for the 21st century, the project establishes a new paradigm of “space communication art,” using today’s technologies to reconnect art, science, and the collective imagination.
In a time of global fragmentation and uncertainty, this project dares to imagine that hope, empathy, and the question of human existence might transcend planetary borders—and begin again from the vast silence of the cosmos.
At KAIST Space Institute, G-Dragon (left) and Jinjoon Lee (right) view their Space Media Art Project, <Good Morning, Mr. G-Dragon>
Good Morning, Mr. G-Dragon, Jinjoon Lee, 2025,
Photo by Jinjoon Lee.
Title: Good Morning, Mr. G-Dragon
Date: 9th April 2025
Venue: KAIST Space Institute (291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, S. Korea)
Medium: Generative AI-based media installation with biometric data, sound composition, projection mapping and satellite signal transmission
Collaborators: Jinjoon Lee (artist and direction), G-Dragon (biometric and musical source), AMA Studio, Galaxy Corporation
Special Partnership: KAIST Space Institute, KAIST Art & Technology Center, Gyeongju National Museum