Hye Yeon Nam is a digital media artist working on audio/video/robotic installation. She is a Ph.D. candidate at the Georgia Institute of Technology and holds an M.F.A. in digital media from the Rhode Island School of Design. She foregrounds the complexity of social relationships by making the familiar strange, and interpreting everyday behaviors in unexpected ways. Hye Yeon's art has been showcased in The Smithsonians National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. (2011-2012), Times Square (2009), the art gallery Eyebeam and The Tank, the conflux, the D.U.M.B.O. Art Festival in New York (2009), FILE (2011), SIGGRAPH (2008, 2010), CHI (2010), ISEA (2011), E3 Expo (201), the Lab in San Francisco, and several festivals in China, Istanbul, Ireland, the UK, Germany, Australia, Denmark, and Switzerland. Her work has been broadcast on the Discovery Channel (Canada) and LIVE TV show Goodday Sacramento, published in Leonardo Journal and featured in Wired, We Make Money Not Art, Makezine, Bussiness Insider, Slashdot, Engadget, and among other publications.
![]() Life is a Journey Kinetic Art 2011 Oct |
![]() Kiss Controller (w/Sam) Input Hardware 2011 Feb |
![]() Please Smile(w/Changhyun) Robotic Art 2011 Jan |
![]() Huggable Nature(w/CarlDiSalvo) Community Workshop 2010 Oct |
![]() Tongue Music The Sound of Kiss 2009 Sep |
![]() Dinner Party (w/Jeremy, Zach) Interactive Installation 2010 Jul/2008 Jul |
![]() Window Project Site Specific Art 2008 Jul/2005 Aug/2005 May |
![]() Wonderland Video Art 2008 Feb |
![]() Self Portrait Video Art 2006 May |
![]() Pointing at Me Robotic Art 2006 May |
![]() Blurred Kinetic Art 2006 May |
![]() What Color is It? Video Art 2006 May |
![]() Drawing Machine Interactive Robot 2005 Oct / 2005 May |
![]() Gaze Interactive Installation 2005 May |
![]() Suffocation Video Art+Sculpture 2005 Mar |
![]() Change Interactive Installation 2004 Dec |
![]() Virtual Aquarium 3D Virtual Fish Tank 2004 Jul |
Graphic work (Poster, Advertising, Typography)1998-2003 |