EDUCATION
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
Ph.D student in Digital Media, School of LCC (Expected: May 2013)
Adviser: Dr. Carl DiSalvo
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
MFA in Digital Media (May 2006)
Ewha Woman’s University, Seoul, Korea
BFA in Information Design (March 2002)
WORK EXPERIENCE
ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), New York, New York (August 2010 - September 2013)
Siggraph Digital Arts Community Committee
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia (August 2008 - present)
Research Assistant in City as Learning Lab (August 2009-present)
Designed and implemented the community workshop “Huggable Nature"
Proposed, planned, and organized the “Huggable Nature” workshop at Conflux Festival in New York and at Georgia Tech
Instructor of the Design for Web class (August 2008 - May 2009)
New York Institute of Technology, New York, New York (August 2007 – July 2008)
Assistant Professor (tenure track) in Communication Arts
Taught multi-media tools, interaction design, and intro to digital imaging
Served on the Metro CAF 2008 Committee for the New York City Siggraph conference and the Teaching Assessment Committee
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (September 2006 – December 2006)
Research Assistant in the Biorobotics Lab
Contributed in the construction of video archives
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island (September 2005 - May 2006)
Taught introduction to animation in the film, audio, video department and 3D Maya Class in the continuing education
SOLO / TWO-PERSON EXHIBITION
"Somewhere In-Between", Buffalo Arts Studio, Buffalo, New York (January 15, 2011- March 12, 2011)
GROUP EXHIBITION
"Evolution/Revolution", Buffalo Arts Studio, Buffalo, New York (Oct 1, 2011- December 23, 2011)
ISEA, Istanbul, Turkey
(September, 2011)
FILE, Sao Paulo, Brazil
(July, 2011)
E3 Expo, Los Angeles, California
(June, 2011)
"Asian-American Portraits of Encounter", The Smithsonians National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC (August 12, 2011 – October 14, 2012)
"Push/Pop" Open Space screening, Seattle, WA
(Feb, 2011)
Virtual MOMA show, New York, New York (October, 2010)
Conflux Festival, New York, New York (October, 2010)
“Please Touch”, ACM Siggraph Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California (September, 2010)
NIME, Sydney, Australia (June, 2010)
"Stand Clear of the Closing Doors, Williamsburg, New York (May, 2010)
CHI (Computer Human Interaction Conference) 10’, Media Showcase, Atlanta, Georgia (April 2010)
Times Square Screening, New York, New York (curator. Isabella Rossellini) (December 2009)
Future Places Festival, Future Places, Porto, Plato (October 2009)
the Lab, San Francisco, California (curator. Misako Inaoka, David Cunningham) (October 2009)
Tweak Festival, Ireland (September 2009)
Dumbo Art under the Bridge Festival, Brooklyn, New York (July 2009)
Video Screening, The Bhavan, London, UK (curator. Ming Turner) (July 2009)
Simply Screen: Inbetweeners of Asia, Berlin, Germany (curator. Ming Turner) (May 2009)
Screengrab, James Cook University, Australia (May 2009)
This ability, Cafa Art Museum, Beijing, China (curator. Byeong Sam Jeon, Wang Chunchen) (May 2009)
Archetime, TheTankSpace, New York (curator. Olga Ast) (May 2009)
ICAD 09, Re-New Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark (May 2009)
Guthman Musical Instrument Competition, Georgia Institute of Technology, Music Technology Dept., Atlanta, Georgia (February 2009)
MISC Video & Performance, NY Studio Gallery, New York, New York (December 2008)
Hun Gallery, New York, New York (October 2008)
Korus House, Korea Embassy, Washington DC (October 2008)
The Coyote Festival 2008, Chicago, Illinois (curator. Catherine Forster) (October 2008)
Emerging Artist: Juried Screening, ISE Gallery, New York (September 2008)
One Minute Festival & Video Festival Aarau, Switzerland (September 2008)
ACM Siggraph 2008 Art Show, Los Angles (August 2008)
Double Take, Eyebeam, New York (September 2008)
Viridian Artist Chelsea, New York (curator. Elisabeth Sussman at the Whitney Museum of Art) (September 2008)
Windows Brooklyn, New York (curator. Sara Jones) (September 2008)
The Future Was Then ..... so now what, SCOPE Pavilion Lincoln Center, New York (May 2008)
Centennial video special, Crawl Space, Seattle (May 2008)
Mix it up, Rhonda Schaller Chelsea, New York, New York (May 2008)
International Winner 2008, Hun Gallery, New York, New York (February 2008)
Kinetic Image, Target Gallery, VI (curator. Patrick Lichty) (February 2008)
Portraiture and Identity, Center For New Americans, New York (September 2007)
Translation: Misguided Machines and Cultural Loops, Duo Gallery, New York, New York (curator. Christian Paul at Whitney Museum) (September 2006)
LDN Vs NYC (Inflatable Collapsing New People from London and New York), NYC (curator. Karim Hamid)
Community Folk Art Center, Syracuse, New York (May 2006)
MFA Thesis Show, RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island (May 2006)
Feminism Festival, The Arts at Marks, Hawaii (August 2006)
10 years later, Gana Arts Center, Seoul, Korea (July 2006)
Space at Alice, Providence, Rhode Island (May 2006)
ISE Cultural Gallery, New York, New York (curator. Melissa Chiu as Museum Director of the Asia Society, Benjamin Genocchio as Art Critic of New York Times, Mariko Mori) (May 2006)
Becoming Uncomfortable, List Museum, Providence, Rhode Island (May 2006)
The Sol Koffler Gallery, Technetronic Teleologies, Providence, Rhode Island (May 2006)
Pixilations V.2 (Firstworksprov Festival), Providence, Rhode Island (March 2006)
AWARDS / GRANT / COMMISION
Dean’s Scholarship, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia (September 2010 – May 2011)
Next Generation Design Leaders Program ($20,000), Korea Ministry of Knowledge and Economy and Korea Institute of Design Promotion, Korea (June 2010 – January 2011)
Creative Divergents, Summer 2010 Winner ($500) (August 2010)
FILE, interactive work finalist, Brazil (June 2010)
Metropolis Art Prize, Runner-Up, New York (December 2009)
Honorable Mention, Porto, Portugal (October 2009)
ZeitGeist 09 video art winner, United Creators, New York (September 2009)
Focal Press Voucher (AUS $1000), Australia (June 2009)
First Prize in 19th Annual Juried Exhibition, Viridian Artists, New York, New York (September 2008)
Third Prize, Target Gallery, Alexandria, Virginia (February 2008)
Hun Gallery International 2008 Winner, Hun gallery, New York, New York (February 2008)
Travel Grant, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island (August 2006)
Artist Grant, Gana Art Center, Seoul, Korea (July 2006)
IT-Design Scholarship, The Ministry of Information and Communication, Korea (May 2003)
ARTIST TALK
Uiversity of Montana, Missoula, MT (Oct 2010)
Siggraph 2010 art gellery, "please touch", Los Angles, California (July 2010)
Dork Bot, New York, New York (September 2009)
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island (July 2009)
Siggraph 2008 art gellery, "slowart", Los Angles, California (September 2008)
Community Folk Art Center, New York, New York (May 2006)
REVIEW / BROADCASTING
Bussiness Insider (March 2011)
Discovery Channel (Canada Broadcasting), Daily Planet Episode, by producer Regine Taduran, (February 28, 2011)
Slashdot (February 2011)
Wired by Bruce Sterling (February 2011)
Engadget By Vlad Savov (February 2011)
Kotaku By StephenTotilo (February 2011)
Gizmodo (February 2011)
Mashable by Charlie White (February 2011)
Tech News Daily by Stuart Fox (July 2010)
Times Square by Glenn Weiss (December 2009)
MSNBC (Broadcasting), Morning Jeo (December 2009)
PSFK(news), by Aziz Ali (November 2009)
Real Time Issue(Magazine), #93 Oct-Nov 2009, by editor Bernadette Ashley (October 2009)
Brokelyn.com, by Faye (September 2009)
Art Fag City, by Paddy Johnson (September 2009)
Discovery Channel (Canada Broadcasting), Daily Planet Episode, by producer Seonaid Eggett, (April 2, 2009)
Wire/multimedia, by editor Eliot Van Buskirk (February 2009)
Makezine, by editor Collin Cunningham (February 2009)
NoiseAddicts (February 2009)
NZMusician (February 2009)
Syracuse City Eagle (News Paper), Vol.3, Issue 37, Community Folks Art Center Opens Double Header, Nancy Keefe Rhode (March 2006)
RISD View(Magazine), The future by Design, p.10 (January 2006)
INTERVIEW
MDR JUMP, German public radio station, Germany (March 2011)
Goodday Sacramento, Live TV show, California (February 2011)
AOL News (February 2011)
Strange Angels, KBCH Radio's weekly broadcast of art & technology, Los Angeles, California (September 2008)
ACM Siggraph 2008 Art Interview, report by JEN ZEN, Los Angeles, California (September 2008)
REVIEWER
Creative Divergents, Winter 2010 (December 2010)
CHI (Computer Human Interaction Conference) 10’, Media Showcase, Atlanta, Georgia (April 2009)Creative Divergents, Winter 2010 (December 2010)
CERTIFICATION
Teaching Certification, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island (2006)
ICPNM (International Certificate Program for New Media), RISD/CRCG imedia, Providence, Rhode Island
(2004)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Research Assistant for Virtual Reality Fish Tank, CRCG, Providence, Rhode Island (2003)
Video Engineer, LG Broadcasting Company, Seoul, Korea (2002)
Art Planner, LG Advertising Company, Seoul, Korea (2001)