Originally from Busan, South Korea
Currently based in Dundee, Scotland
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
2019 Vivarium Festival, Porto, Portugal
2016 Electric Spring Festival, University of Huddersfield, UK
2015 La Escucha Errante Festival, ZAWP, Bilbao, Spain
2014 Thermospheric Station, Flux Factory, NY, USA
2012 Edinburgh Science Festival / Dialogue Music Festival, Inspace, Edinburgh, UK
2011 Neon Digital Arts Festival, Chamber East, Dundee, UK
2011 Venetian Ball, Wee Red Bar, Edinburgh, UK
2011 Versatile Beings, Art’s Complex, Edinburgh UK
2011 Art For Life, Wallace House, Edinburgh, UK
2011 Imaginate, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, UK
2010 Love Dance Festival, Dance Base, Edinburgh, UK
2008 Fringe Festival, Edinburgh, UK
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2014 Kinokophonography Night, Lincoln Centre for the Performing Arts, NY, USA
2014 Pink Noise Salon, Flux Factory, NY, USA
2014 Nightlight, Flux Factory, NY, USA
2014 Air Show, Flux Factory, NY, USA
2011 Women in Science Festival, Hannah Maclure Centre, Dundee, UK
2010 Hidden Door Festival, Roxy Art House, Edinburgh, UK
2009 Galerie Nord-Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany
SELECTED SCREENINGS
2018 Athens Video Dance Project, Athens, Greece
2014 MIVSC São Carlos Videodance Festival, São Carlos, Brazil
2013 Let’s Dance Festival, Macrobert, Stirling, UK
2012 Sonica - Sonic Art for Visually Minded, Glasgow, UK
2008 Cinemadamare Film Festival, Italy
COMMISSIONED WORKS
Music Impossible
Interactive sound and light installation for young audiences (collaboration)
Family Fun Music Day, Glasgow City Halls
Glasgow, UK
2011
Sponsored by UNESCO
Pandora’s Light Box
Permanent audio guide for visually impaired audiences (collaboration)
Talbot Rice Gallery / Artlink
Edinburgh, UK
2011
SOUND DESIGN for MOVING IMAGE
Thread
by Danwen Xing
Exhibited at Xi’an Art Museum, China, 2018
The Fairytale of Mærsk
by Asbjørn Lund, Aarhus School of Architecture
Exhibited at Milan Design Week, Italy, 2016
Mapping Istanbul 2015
by Superpool
Exhibited at MAXXI, Rome, Italy, 2015
There is No Fairytale
by Youngmi Kim
Exhibited at Galerie Nord-Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany, 2009
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2016 Shaping Time . Space, Flux Factory, NY, USA
2016 Artificial Retirement, Flux Factory, NY, USA
2015 Processing, Inverness Street Gallery, London, UK (co-curating with Bar Yerushalmi)
2014 Thermospheric Station, Flux Factory, NY, USA
RESIDENCIES
2018 ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus, Denmark
2016 Flux Factory (Curatorial), NY, USA
2014 Flux Factory, NY, USA
2011 Dance Base, Edinburgh, UK
WORKSHOPS
2016 Sound Imagining, Sound/Vision/Place Festival, University of Huddersfield, UK
2014 Max MSP for beginners, Pioneer Works, NY, USA
2014 Max MSP x Arduino workshop, Flux Factory, NY, USA
GRANTS / AWARDS
2014 Santander Research Scholarship
2014 PhD Scholarship (Half-Fee Waiver), University of Huddersfield
2011 Arts Trust Scotland Grant
2008 Cinemadamare Film Festival Weekly Competition Award
REVIEWS / INTERVIEWS
2016 Gagin Lee, "[Special Feature] International Art Residencies", Public Art Magazine, South Korea
2014 Mitch Waxman, “Nightlight at LIC Community Garden”, Queens Brownstoner, USA
2012 Narang Kim, “Sense & Sound”, 1st Look, South Korea
2011 Mark Harding, “Transmission”, The Skinny, UK
2011 Stephanie Richardson, “RECREA(C)TION: Versatile Beings”, a-n The Artists Information Company, UK
BOOK CONTRIBUTIONS / ARTICLES / PUBLICATIONS
"Redefining Failure in a Technologically Driven Era", CLOT Magazine (Online), 2017
Artists’ Survival Guide, 2013.
“Soundscape Work; Four Different Approaches to Composing with Environmental Audio and Social, Political, and Philosophical Background”, Sound@Media Magazine (online), 2011.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS / ARTIST TALKS
2019 Arcadia, V&A Dundee, UK (Upcoming)
2018 International Conference on Live Interfaces, Porto, Portugal
2016 Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X, Bergamo, Italy
2016 ISEA2016 Conference, Hong Kong
2015 NEoN Mini Symposium, NEoN Digital Arts Festival, Dundee, UK
2015 Sound / Image Colloquium, University of Greenwich, UK
2015 Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X, Glasgow, UK
WORK EXPERIENCE
Postdoctoral Research and Development Fellow
InGAME: Innovation for Games and Media Enterprise, University of Dundee, UK
04/2019 - Present
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Interactive Engagement / Creative Digital Expression
Teaching Assistant
University of Huddersfield, UK
02/2015 - 06/2016
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Taught the undergraduate module 'Sound For Image'.
Administrator
Flux Factory, New York, USA
02/2014 - 09/2014
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Produced financial reports for grant applications and final reports.
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Organized and directing the day-to-day operations of the office, interfaces with all other departments, and being responsible for assisting with key projects as requested by the Executive Director.
Intern Sound Engineer
Atlantic Sound Studios, New York, USA
03/2013 - 08/2013
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Assisted the chief engineer for live recording sessions.
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Organised customer booking schedule.
Sound and Interaction Designer
Superpool, Istanbul, Turkey
Jul 2012 – Sep 2012
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Designed interactive audiovisual works for the project PARK by the architecture company Superpool for AUDI Urban Future Award 2012 competition as part of Istanbul Design Biennale.
Project Supervisor
University of Edinburgh, UK
01/2012 - 05/2012
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Supervised a group of graduate students from MSc Design and Digital Media, Sound Design, Digital Media and Culture, and Digital Composition courses
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Proposed an audio-visual interactive project, 'Where the action is', where the focus was on designing and developing ways of ‘interactions’ with the audience
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Troubleshooter for their technical support and advised for their academic research
Intern Project Manager & Sound Designer
Sound Tales, UK & Denmark
01/2012 - 04/2012
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Worked as an intern in distance for the 3D audio book design company, Sound Tales, located in Denmark
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Managed the communications between the group of interns in Edinburgh and the company in Denmark setting up a blog, email contacts, file sharing websites, video meetings, etc.
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Produced a stereo version of sound track for the promotion of the story book based on a historical literature from Søren Kierkegaard in 19th century of Copenhagen
Studio Host
Nile, Edinburgh, UK
05/2010 – 04/2012
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Hosted focus groups at the service design consultancy. In charge of taking care of A/V system and front desk tasks.
Freelance Sound Operator
Mama Youth Project, London, UK
10/2008 - 03/2009
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Completed the work experience program for one month at Mama Youth Project and invited to work as freelance
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Operated sound for their youth TV magazine show, What’s Up, on Sky Freeview
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What’s Up was premiered at British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)
EDUCATION
University of Huddersfield, UK — PhD in Music and Music Technology, 2018
The University of Edinburgh, UK — MSc sound design, 2011
London Metropolitan University, UK — BA sound and media, 2009