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KIEUN KIM

Multimedia, Visual / Media

About the Artist

KIEUN KIM NEW MEDIA ARTIST | PERFORMER | VISUAL DESIGNER thekieunkim@gmail.com | kieunkim.com   [ Biography ] New York/Baltimore-based, seasoned professional new media artist and visual designer, experienced computer engineer and in coding. Fluent in Korean and English with international work experience. Main interests are in the fields of visual art, interactive art, installation, physical computing, soft circuit, vital signs and wearable technology. Artistic concentration on self-portrait, emotional expressions and human connection. Mission to focus on interactive healing effects between people on a variety of projects.   [ Education ]  Master of Fine Arts in Design and Technology Parsons, The New School for Design, New York, NY 2015 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art Education Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea 2000   [ Honors & Awards ] December 2018 Fusion Art, Palm Springs, CA Selected Artist April Sound 4th Annual Leaves & Petals Art Exhibition September 2018 School 33 Art Center (BOPA), Baltimore, MD Selected Artist Revealuxion School 33 Project Space June 2018 Overlea Community Association, Baltimore, MD Featured Artist / People's Choice Award & 2nd Prize in 2D Abstract Sound Tree 3rd Annual Overlea ArtsFest Juried Competition and Show September 2016 4heads, New York Harbor, New York, NY Selected Artist Revealuxion 9th Annual Governors Island Art Fair 2016 June 2016 Space in Arts New York, New York, NY Selected Artist Revealuxion Kieun Kim Solo Exhibition January 2016 RAW, Melrose Ballroom, New York, NY Featured Artist Revealuxion RAW: New York Presents Futures September 2015 The New York Times,Women in The World Featured Artist / 15 Remarkable Moments from Maker Faire NYC Revealuxion Women in The World in Association, The New York Times September 2015 New York Hall of Science, Queens, NY Selected Artist / Best in Class Revealuxion 6th Annual World Maker Faire  September 2015 New York University Skirball Center, New York, NY Selected Artist Revealuxion NYC Media Lab Annual Summit  January 2015 Autodesk, San Rafael, CA Featured Artist / Winner of the 2014 Papercraft Contest Brainwave-Controlled Paper Garment Instructables November 2014 Autodesk, San Rafael, CA Featured Maker The Finger Drums Instructables November 2014 Autodesk, San Rafael, CA Featured Maker The Healing Lamp Instructables  June 2014 Adafruit, New York, NY Featured Artist Talk To Me Adafruit Wearable Wednesday August 2013 - May 2015 New York, NY The Provost Scholarship Parsons, The New School For Design May 2011 Lydia Fair, Cambridge, MA Selected Artist Home Tonight Lydia Fair Feb 2004 Gwacheon, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea Grand Prize / Korea Software Awards (KSWA) Digital Ceramics and Patterns Ministry of Science and Technology   [ Conference Presentations ] September 22, 2018, Baltimore, MD, USA A Discussion of New-ish Media Hosted by Katie Duffy and Carlyn Thomas Selected Artist Panel July 7 – 9, 2015, London, U.K. Electronic Visualization and the Arts (EVA), London 2015 Conference Stitch, Bitch, Make/Perform: Wearables and Performance July 7 – 9, 2015, London, U.K. Conference Authors: Camille Baker & Kate Sicchio Featured Guest Speaker (via Skype)   [ Donation ] Revealuxion 6x6 - The International Small Art Phenomenon | Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY | June 2-July 15, 2018   [ Selected Exhibitions ] Snap to Grid | Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA | December 13, 2018-January 5, 2019 4th Annual Leaves & Petals Online Art Exhibition | Fusion Art, Palm Springs, CA | December 1, 2018-December 31, 2018  School 33 Project Space | School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD | August 31-September 29, 2018 6x6 - The International Small Art Phenomenon | Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY | June 2-July 15, 2018 The 3rd Annual Overlea ArtsFest Juried Art Exhibit & Competition | Overlea Community Association, Natural History Society, Baltimore, MD | June 2, 2018 Out of Order 2018 MAP’s 21st Annual Benefit Exhibition and Silent Auction | Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD | April 13, 2018 7th Annual World Maker Faire | Make: Magazine, New York Hall of Science, New York, NY | October 1-2, 2016 Governors Island Art Fair 2016 | 4heads, New York Harbor, NY | September 3-25, 2016 The Enchanted City 2016 | Troy, NY | August 25-27, 2016 Kieun Kim Solo Exhibition | Space in Arts, New York, NY | June 8-14, 2016 The Art Show | Space in Arts, New York, NY | May 26, 2016 Raw: New York - NYC Presents Futures | Melrose Ballroom, New York, NY | January 13, 2016 6th Annual World Maker Faire | Make: Magazine, New York Hall of Science, New York, NY | September 26-27, 2015 NYC Media Lab Annual Summit | New York University Skirball Center, New York, NY | September 25, 2015 Designing Multiplicity: Performance & Screening | John Tishman Auditorium, Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall, New York, NY | May 18, 2015 Designing Multiplicity | Albert and Vera List Academic Center, New York, NY | May 18-22, 2015 Parsons Gala | John L. Tishman Auditorium, University Center, New York, NY | April 26, 2015 The Brainwave-Controlled Paper Garment | Arnold Hall, New York, NY | January 1, 2015 Papercraft Exhibition | Instructables, Autodesk, San Rafael, CA | November 24, 2014-January 19, 2015 Talk to Me | Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, New York, NY | June 15, 2014 Talk to Me | Adafruit’s Wearable Wednesday, New York, NY | June 11, 2014 Face-to-Face | Eugene Lang Of Liberal Arts, New York, NY | December 5-12, 2013 Home Tonight | The Lydia Fair, Greater Boston Vineyard, Cambridge, MA | May 21-22, 2011 2000 Dream of New Millennium, Fine Arts & Communication Design & Calligraphy | The National Theater of Korea, South Korea | December 29, 1999-January 30, 2000 Beauty | Jong Ro Gallery, South Korea | October 4-10, 2000   [ Press & Publications ] ______________________________________________________________________________ • Author: Camille C. Baker | Published: August 23, 2018   New Directions in Mobile Media and Performance. Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities.    Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. 2018   Caption: © 2015 Kieun Kim – Revealuxion Version ii - 1 /r (P.110) ISBN-13: 978-1472467188, ISBN-10: 1472467183 • The New York Times,Women in The World | September 28, 2015    [ Do-It-Herself ] 15 Remarkable Moments from Maker Faire NYC ______________________________________________________________________________ • ArtfixDaily | December 1, 2018 • Fusion Art | December 1, 2018 • School 33 Art Center  | August 31, 2018 • Bmore Art | August 28, 2018 • BOPA (Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts)  | August 31, 2018 • Carpe Diem! | August 12, 2018 • Evensi | August 12, 2018 • Carroll County Times | June 2, 2018 • 4heads, Governors Island Art Fair 2016 | April 18, 2017 • 4heads, Governors Island Art Fair 2016 | September 3-25, 2016 • The Culture Files | September 8, 2016 • Scoopnest News | June 17, 2016 • New York Culture Beat | June 9, 2016 • AllEvents Magazine | June 9, 2016 • Heyevents | June 9, 2016 • Eventbrite | June 9, 2016 • Newsroh | June 8, 2016 • Artslant New York | June 8, 2016 / December 5, 2013 • Plus Model Magazine & Marla Wynne Fashion Collection | February 11, 2016 • News Talk EE | December 17, 2015 • Workshopshed | November 2, 2015 • 6th Annual World Maker Faire | October 1-2, 2015 • Oszine Magazine | October 2, 2015 • Frequency | September 30, 2015 • AMT Magazine  | September 29, 2015    2015 MFA DT Alumna Kieun Kim Featured in The New York Times • Adafruit Wearable Wednesday blog: Revealuxion | September 27, 2015    Featured and selected artist by Becky Stern, the director of wearable electronics at Adafruit • Fruit Industries | September 27, 2015 • Taable Note News Magazine | September 27, 2015     • Make Me Feed | September 27, 2015 • Nuzzel News | September 27, 2015 • New York City Media Lab Annual Summit 2015 | September 25, 2015      Interactive Science Fair – Wearables • American Entrepreneurship | July 13, 2015 • Ecouterre Magazine | June 10, 2015 • The New School Archives Digital Collections | May 12, 2015 • Instructables | January 2015 • Adafruit’s Wearable Wednesday blog: Talk To Me | June 11, 2014 • CTTAgent (Cyber Technology Transfer Agents) | October 8, 2012 • Ennoble Magazine | February 2005 • Screen Magazine | July 2004 • Film 2.0 Magazine | July 2004

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Artist's Statement

I am a New York/Baltimore based-new media artist. My work displays 2-dimensional art, 3-dimensional art, physical computing, soft circuit, installation, and interactive art. This creativity also demonstrates self-portraits, emotional expressions, and human connection. I aim to focus on interactive healing effects between people on a variety of projects. I believe my art is expressed in everything I touch. As my portfolio illustrates, my passion for art is interdisciplinary and expressed across diverse media. My artworks have been accepted in various art galleries and art fairs including School 33 Art Center 2018 in Baltimore and Governor’s Island Art Fair 2016 in New York. My project, Revealuxion has received critical praise and acclaim, winning Best in Class at Maker Faire 2015 and is featured in The New York Times article “Women in the World.” I received Master of Fine Arts degree in Design and Technology at Parsons School of Design in May, 2015.

Featured Work

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Revealuxion is a personal, artistic performance using an experimental, interactive, wearable garment that is connected to my brainwaves. My concept concentrates on self-esteem, self-portrait, aesthetic emotions, and human connection. I express my internal feelings and emotions in front of audiences through the garment, which means I will reveal my true self instead of a version of myself that is fake, sealed up, or hidden behind technology. Ultimately, I aim to find ways to reach catharsis, with spectators, through empathetic engagement.
Revealuxion is a video installation using the shapes and mechanisms inspired by cocoons and marionettes. She views herself as a young butterfly, through the reflection of chrysalis as a representation of her alter ego, she expresses suffering and patience that is embedded in her artwork.
Revealuxion, a multi-media installation by Kieun Kim, utilizes mechanisms and forms inspired by butterfly chrysalides and stringed marionette hands. With this work, Kim envisions herself through the reflection of a chrysalis — a metaphor which embodies the suffering and vulnerability, as well as the patience and self-determination required for periods of intense personal growth. For the artist, the process of making and presenting Revealuxion to viewers is an exercise in unapologetically embracing and revealing the genuine self, forgoing the propensity to put forth inauthentic versions of ourselves to the people we encounter. The patience inherent with this work is reflected in the details — which feature kaleidoscopic projections, laser cut acrylic, articulated wooden hands, and hundreds of yards of carefully stretched, illuminated cotton string.

Videos

  • Revealuxion: My Journey of Evolution 2015

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    Revealuxion is a version of video art composed of the shapes and mechanisms inspired by cocoons and marionettes. She views herself as a young butterfly, through the reflection of chrysalis as a representation of her alter ego, she expresses suffering and patience that is embedded in her artwork.

    Initially, Revealuxion was an experimental garment for performance, which uses LED lights connected to brainwaves as a mental representation and finger movements as a physical representation. The title came from a combination of Reveal and Lux. She designed organic shapes by fragile acrylic materials like her concept. To extend journey of imagination, she installed exhibitions of a video projector with white threads and wooden hands at Solo Exhibition, NY, U.S.A. 2016, Governors Island Art Fair, NY, U.S.A. 2016, and School 33 Art Center, MD, U.S.A. 2018. The video symbolizes a dynamic hole presenting a struggled butterfly in the chrysalis. She integrates all her documentary videos into the kaleidoscope effects. Audiences would feel empathy, sympathy and healing through her solitary journey.
    Year: 2015