Hye Yeon Nam

Hye Yeon Nam is a digital media artist working on audio/video installation in Atlanta and New York City.  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 Times Square, the art gallery Eyebeam and The Tank, the D.U.M.B.O. Art Festival in New York, SIGGRAPH (2008, 2010), CHI (2010), NIME (2010), the Lab in San Francisco, and several festivals in China, Ireland, the UK, Germany, Australia, Denmark, and Switzerland.  Her work has been broadcast on the Discovery Channel (Canada), and published in Wired and Makezine, among other publications.


Huggable Nature
Community Workshop
2010 (ongoing project)

Pointing at Me v.2
Robot Enermies
2010 (ongoing project)

Tongue Music v.2
The Sound of Kiss
2009 July

Tongue Music v.1
(w/Ramaldo)
2009 Jan

We Make a Rule
Data Visualization
2008 Dec

Shadow Friend
Video Art
2008 Oct

Dinner Party (w/Jeremy, Zach)
Interactive Installation
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 v.1
Robot Enemy
2006 May

Blurred
Kinetic Art
2006 May

What Color is It?
Video Art
2006 May

Drawing Machine
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