“il-chae-u-shim (Everything is in your mind.) ”
- Korean Saying
Hyun Ju Kim is a media artist teaching 3D animation and interactive media at UMass Lowell and a mom of three boys. Kim's work varies from 3D animation, video, robotic art as well as installation. Her computer interactive installations and performance projects deal with post-human conditions in the techno-cultural society, exploring the notion of identities in such an environment with ubiquitous digital technologies. Her works have been exhibited nationally and internationally, including "Continuum" at the George Segal Gallery( NJ, 2009), ImageMovementSound Festival (NY, 2005 ), Sixth International Digital Art Exhibit and Colloquium (Cuba, 2004), Toronto Online Film Festival (Canada,2002), International Audio Visual Creation Festival of Navarre (Spain, 2002) and "Media[Less] Medium" at the Boston Center for the Arts (MA, 2002). Kim has won first place in the juried exhibitions at the 119 gallery (MA, 2008) and Ciao gallery (WY, 2009). Kim has been involved in initiating Artbotics program, a NSF-funded interdisciplinary project combining art and computer science at UMass as well as a local museum and a high school.
Hyun Ju Kim, Animation & Interactive Media
MFA, Computer Art
Syracuse University
BS, Industrial Engineering
Pohang University of Science and Technology