About – bio

absurdee.com is a collection of experimental art & technology projects by Younghui Kim.  Younghui is also known as ‘Marie‘.

Younghui is a media artist, co-founder of an artist group, RedOnion, and professor at the School of Design Convergence, Hongik Univeristy.  For over one and half decade, Younghui has been exploring the field of new media art, often interactive, wearble, tangible, generative, and data-driven.  Most recently, her work explores data as an artistic material, and how it reveals context while focusing on data bias, left-out data, and small self collected data. 

Her digital media art projects were presented in numerous exhibitions worldwide such as QUT (Seeking for Outleirs, the Block Gallery, Australia 2020), Design Korea Festival (Design Beyond Data -BreatheOut 2020), Robotronica Biennale 2019, CHI Art 2018 (Weight of Data, the Society of Art and Technologies, Montreal 2018), Platform-L Contemporary Art Center (The Sense of Data 2018), TEI 2015 (Metamorphosis), Interactivity-Exploration at CHI 2013 (Gravity of Light), Seoul International Media Art Biennale 2013, Lay Artist by Art Center Nabi 2012, DALSMA 2011, and ISEA 2011, Leonardo Journal, HCI 2010, Social Fabrics 2008, FutureFasion 2006, Gwangju International Design Biennale 2005, Emerging Technologies Gallery in SIGGRAPH 2004. Other notable art installations were exhibited at Busan Cinema Center (Spring 2022), Savina Museum of Art (3D Printing & Art 2014), Arko Art Center (Dynamic Structure & Fluid 2014) and Hongik Museum of Modern Art (Across 2013).

Younghui’s wearable technology projects were featured on media such as BBC News Clicks, Korean Science Times, Surface Asia Magazine, The Korea Times Magazine, Nippon TV, iChannel TV, Computer Graphics World and artist has been interviewed in Art4D, The Christian Science Monitor (as well as abc.com), Donga Science, Donga News, Chosun News, Money Today News, fashionabletech.com, and more.

Younghui is from New York and has joined Hongik University since 2007 and has been teaching and researching interactive art and design.  She researches and teaches media art, interactive media design, sound-visualization, and data art.

Her publication includes a book, titled ‘Data, Algorith, AI Art’ (Communication Books 2026 – in Korean), as well as published papers and articles in numerous conferneces and journals such as CHI, TEI, ISEA, SIGGRAPH, KRIGA, HCI Korea, Antennae, AI Times, 월간 국회도서관, and etc.

Younghui earned a PhD in Interactive and Visual Design at Urban Informatics Design Lab, the faculty of Creative Industries, Queensland University of Technology, received her Masters degree from at ITP, Tisch School of the Art, New York University and a BFA degree from the Parsons School of Design in New York.

You can contact her at <ihongik@gmail.com>

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