Hye Yeon Nam

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