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LAURA HYUNJHEE KIM
LAURA HYUNJHEE KIM (b. Palo Alto, CA, USA) is a Korean-American multimedia artist who creates post-disciplinary performances to reimagine human and nonhuman interaction through embodied ways of knowing. Her projects are multimodal and take many shapes, from video art, performance art, installation, digital art, new media art, and writing. Thinking-through-making, her work is driven by blobby nuanced moments of in-betweenness: when language loses its coherence, necessitates absurd leaps in logic and fluency, and reroutes into intuitive and improvisational sense-making modes of expression. Blending and bending pop cultural tropes that playfully engage with amateur aesthetics of the internet, she actively incorporates consumer electronics in production and draws inspiration from viral memes, mixed-fidelity music, found-footage film, and kitschy low-budget commercials. As an avid cross-disciplinary pollinator, collaborator, and storyteller, her ongoing projects focus on blobology, feelosophy, pigeonology, and digital technology.
Kim has shown work around the world, recently including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Crow Museum of Asian Art, Theatre of Digital Art in Dubai, Kadist Art Foundation & Chinatown Media & Arts Collective, Transfer Gallery, Pioneer Works, Telematic Media Arts, Harvestworks, Centro Cultural São Paulo, Vector Festival, Athens Digital Art Festival, Bienal Internacional de Curitiba, and The Wrong Biennale. Her projects have also appeared in the Lumen Prize for Art and Technology collection, Stillpoint Magazine, The Denver Post, Southwest Contemporary, Westword, ArtSlant, Hyperallergic, KQED, Daily Serving, San Francisco Chronicle, and VICE The Creators Project. She was in the 2020-2021 revival of the Got Milk? campaign and her social media performance was broadcasted nationwide on TV and various online streaming services. Kim was an artist in residence at the Internet Archive (2017), Korea National University of the Arts (2017), and Electrofringe (with libi rose striegl as the collaborative duo sharing turtle™, 2019). Kim’s short feature Marvelous Miramol was the first moving image to receive the Wisconsin Union Directorate Art Committee’s Sally Owen Marshall Best in Show Award (2010). Kim’s video art SHARING IS CARING received the inaugural ArtSlant Award in New Media (2013), Cricket World won the Black Cube Video Art Award (2020), Soul (Re)cycling with Raccoons in Human-Time won the Artist Film (Short) Award from the Berlin Indie Film Festival (2022), projection-mapping project Close Encounters won the Prix City Digital Skin Art (CDSA) Silver Award from the China Academy of Art and Pasha Meta School (2023), and Blink won the Creative Process Award from the international exhibition “Aberrant Creativity: Unusual Partnerships Between Humans and Machines” organized by Texas A&M’s Institute for Applied Creativity and School of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts and The Arts Council of Brazos Valley (2023). She also received the New Media Caucus Distinguished Scholar Award (2019) and the Judson-Morrissey Excellence in New Media Award (2020). Kim is the author of Entering the Blobosphere: A Musing on Blobs, which was published by The Accomplices / Civil Coping Mechanisms (June 17, 2019) and the coauthor of Remixing Persona: An Imaginary Digital Media Object from the Onto-tales of the Digital Afterlife with Mark Amerika, published with Open Humanities Press (November, 2019). She has collaborated with numerous multidisciplinary artists and researchers including: Chris Corrente (on video / music / creative direction, recently including Traveling 2046, Blink, and Sky’s Edge), libi rose striegl (on sharing turtle™), Surabhi Saraf, Caroline Sinders, Marcus Brittain Fleming, Mariah Hill (on Centre for Emotional Materiality), Mark Amerika (on MALK and ACI: Artificial Creative Intelligence), Kevin Sweet (on Pigeonology), and Thomas Riccio (on Blue Jelly and Dream Play).
Kim received a BS in Art from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, MFA from the New Genres Department at the San Francisco Art Institute, and PhD in Intermedia Art, Writing and Performance (IAWP) from the College of Media, Communication and Information (CMCI) at the University of Colorado Boulder. Kim is an Assistant Professor of Visual and Performing Arts at The University of Texas at Dallas. She lives and works in the company of neighboring songbirds, squirrels, and wild rabbits in Richardson, Texas.
김 로라 현지
미국 캘리포니아에서 태어나, 아홉 살 되던 해 한국에 와서 초, 중, 고등학교를 마침.
University of Wisconsin-Madison에서 시각예술 (비디오, 행위예술, 설치미술) 전공으로 학부 졸업.
San Francisco Art Institute에서 New Genres 석사 수여.
University of Colorado Boulder에서 Intermedia Art, Writing and Performance (IAWP) 박사 수여.
The University of Texas at Dallas에서 Visual and Performing Arts 조교수.
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