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Minso Kim

Artist, Educator, Researcher

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EDUCATION

2024.               Ph.D. in Emergent Technology and Media Art Practices,

    University of Colorado Boulder (CU-B), Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.

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2013.               MFA in Art and Technology Studies,

    School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.

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2011.               BFA in Painting (Contemporary Arts),

    BA   in Museum Studies, Seoul Women’s University (SWU), Seoul, South Korea.

 

TEACHING AND ADVISING

Fall 2024 -Current     Visiting Assistant Professor, Univ. of North Texas (UNT), Denton, TX, U.S.A.

  • Instructor of record: Digital Communication For Art and Creative Entrepreneurship

  • Instructor of record: Digital Tools and Technologies for Creative Practices

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Spring 2023 ~ Spring 2024.     Lecturer, CU-B, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.

  • Instructor of record: Creative Media Making

  • Instructor of record: Intro to Media Practices (Making)

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Fall 2022.     Graduate Part-Time Instructor, CU-B, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.

  • Instructor of record: Creative Media Making

 

Fall 2018 - Spring 2022.     Teaching Assistant, CU-B, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.

  • Introduction to Contemporary Media Cultures

  • Concepts & Creativity: The Images

  • Approaches to Media Practices

  • Historical Media Practices

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Fall 2015 – Fall 2017.   Lecturer, SWU, Seoul, South Korea.

  • Visual Thoughts

  • Practices of Moving Images

  • Borders of Contemporary Arts

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Fall 2011 - Fall 2012.   Teaching Assistant, SAIC, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.

  • Digital Literacy

  • Sophomore Seminar

 

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2014-2017.     Researcher, Bio-Medical Arts and Design Education Center at SWU, Seoul, South Korea.​

 

2014-2015.     Research Assistant, Bio-Medical Knowledge Engineering Lab at Seoul National University (SNU), Seoul, South Korea.

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PUBLICATIONS

2024

Minso Kim. "Naturoids: Practice-led creative research combining biophilic design, speculative design, and Korean art aesthetics" Dissertation.

 

Minso Kim. "When the past technology comes to the future wearable technology: Speculative art project Lock at First Sight (2020)" 29th International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) 2024 Proceedings,

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2022

Minso Kim. "Biophilic prototypes: Sensory experiences of the speculative interior architecture", Urban Assemblage conference proceedings, AMPS (Architecture, Media, Politics, and Society) (March-April).

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2021

Minso Kim. "Ivy Curtain: An Alternative-plant Robot" Human-Robot Interaction conference 2021 companion proceedings, pp.630-631. (March)

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2019

Minso Kim. “Blurring Borders Between the Real and Digital Worlds”. 25th International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) 2019 Proceedings, p.160-164.

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Poster (Oct. 10-12)

BEA On-Location, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, U.S.A.

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Short paper, Anthropocene Resonance Symposium, University of Boulder Art Museum, Boulder, CO, U.S.A.

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2018

Minso Kim. "Newly generated ritual in the age of digital technology" Virtual Creativity, vol. 8, no. 2, pp.179-188.

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2017

Minso Kim. "Does Ritual Disappear as Walter Benjamin Describes in ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’ in the Age of Digital Technology?”. 23rd International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) 2019 Proceedings.

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EXHIBITIONS

SOLO

2018

· Joy-Sorrow, Gallery Knot (Exhibition Center), Seoul, Korea (Feb.20-26)

 

2017

· Nuance x Nuance, Cy Art Space, Seoul, Korea (Aug.22-28)

· Subtle Tone, SWU Museum, Seoul, Korea (Feb.22-Mar.31)

 

2016

· Empathy and Numbers, Space Sun+ (Sun Art Space), Seoul, Korea (Feb.3-16)

 

2015

· Minso Kim; Sound of a City as a Healer, Laboratory gallery, Spokane, WA, U.S.A. (Sept.24 - Oct.8)

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GROUP

2023

·Trick or B.E.A.T., Junkyard Social Club, Boulder, CO

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2021-2022

· B.E.A.T|Boulder Experiments in Art and Technology: Convivial Machines, Boulder History Museum, Boulder, CO (Oct, 2021 - Feb, 2022)

 

2020

· (Duo) Earth’s Favorite Star. Fiske Planetarium, Boulder, CO, U.S.A. (Feb. - current)

· The Boulder Bunny Rabbit Art Challenge, community art project, Boulder, CO, U.S.A. (April -September)​

 

2019

· Tickle Here, CMCI studio-Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, U.S.A.

· Shadow of stars,  IDEAs section, Future Architecture web

 

2015

· Creative Healer, Community Gallery - Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea (Nov. 4-8)

· Think It Over, Think It Slow, Gallery Korea-Korean Cultural Service of New York, New York City, NY, U.S.A.

  (Jun.10 - Jul.22)

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2014

· Breaking the rules, Roland Dile Center for the Arts - Minnesota State University Moorhead, Moorhead, MN, U.S.A.

· Playa Presents, Summer Lake, OR, U.S.A.

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2013

· MFA Thesis Exhibition, Sullivan Gallery, SAIC, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
· 'Text', PRØVE Gallery, Duluth, MN, U.S.A.

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2012

· The Loft Show, FeelTrip Studio-Chinatown, Chicago, IL, U.S.A
· void object(), ISEA 2012, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
· 8th Budapest Short Film Festival, Budapest, Hungary
· Freedom of Memory A Virtual Memorial Phnom Penh 2012, META House Phnom Penh, Phnom Penh,   Cambodia
· Fundacion FIART, Electrocuciones 2012, Madrid, Spain
· Body, Breath, Gaze Multi-museum (online show), http://muzej-pokreta.org/
· Movement museum (online show), http://muzej-pokreta.org/
· LatarXpo, Art &Technology Studies Showcase of Graduate Work-SAIC sponsored, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.

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2011

· CologneOFF 2011 Riga, Waterpieces Contemporary Art & Videoart Festival, Liga, Latvia
· CologneOFF 2011 Beirut, Shams - The Sunflower, Beirut, Lebanon
· Good Morning Korea 2011, New Millennium Exhibition, Gallery Sinsang, Seoul, Korea

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2010

· Seoul Women’s University Alumnae Group Exhibition-Alumnae sponsored, Gallery Indeco, Seoul, Korea
· Seoul Women's University BFA Graduation Exhibition, Bahrom Art Center-SWU, Seoul, Korea
· One Minute Film Collection vol.2 -Video Channel Cologne 2010, Cologne, Germany

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PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS

2024

Paper presentation (Jun. 24)

ISEA 2024 Everywhen

Virtual and Brisbane, Australia.

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2021

Paper presentation (Jun. 28)

AMPS (Architecture, Media, Politics, and Society) Conference

Virtual and Hatfield, U.K.

 

Main student design competition (Mar. 9-11)

Human-Robot Interaction 2021,

Boulder, CO, U.S.A. (virtual conference due to COVID-19)

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2019

Poster (Oct. 10-12)

BEA On-Location,

University of Colorado Boulder, CO, U.S.A.

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Long paper presentation (Jun. 22)

ISEA 2019 Lux Aeterna,

Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea.

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Short paper presentation (Feb. 8)

Anthropocene Resonance Symposium, 

University of Boulder Art Museum, Boulder, CO, U.S.A.

 

2017

Long paper presentation (Jun. 14th)

ISEA 2017 BIO-CREACIÓN Y PAZ,

Universidad de Caldas, Manizales, Colombia​

 

2016

Solo exhibition interview

Space Sun+(plus) gallery-Seoul

Online publishment

 

2015

In-person radio interview,

Oct. 1st - Art Hour,

KYRS Thin Air Community Radio, Spokane, WA, U.S.A.

 

​2013

Artist Talk Lecture

2013 fall lecture series, Korean Graduate Students Community-SAIC sponsored

Chicago, IL, U.S.A.

 

2010

Paper interview

Video Channel Interview Project(V.I.P. project),

Online publishment

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HONORS AND AWARDS

2021

Rookie Award, T9Hacks, ATLAS Institute, CU-Boulder, CO, U.S.A.

 

2020

Creative Research Grant - Summer 2020, Dept. of Critical Media Practices, CU-Boulder, CO, U.S.A.

 

2019

Beverly Sears Grant 2019, CU-Boulder Graduate School, Boulder, CO, U.S.A.

 

2017

Knot Prize Award 2017, Gallery Knot, Seoul, Korea

Cy Art Document 2017, Cy Art Space, Seoul, Korea

 

2014

Playa Winter/Spring 2014 Fellowship Residency, Summer Lake, OR, U.S.A.

 

2013

19th Annual Student Leadership, SAIC, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.

 

2010

Dean’s Scholarship, SWU, Seoul, Korea

Academic Achievement Grant, SWU, Seoul, Korea

 

2009

Scholarship for Excelling in a Foreign Language, SWU, Seoul, Korea (fall)

Scholarship for Excelling in a Foreign Language, SWU, Seoul, Korea (spring)

 

2008

Scholarship for Outstanding Academic Achievement, SWU, Seoul, Korea

 

2007

Academic Achievement Grant, SWU, Seoul, Korea

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SERVICE

Professional

2023 Reviewer for CHI '23 (The Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems)

2022 Reviewer for ICA 2022 (International Communication Association Conference)

2021 Reviewer for Creative and Cognition 2021 conference

2020 Reviewers for BEA on-location conference 2020

 

University-wide

2019-2023 Graduate Student Mentor (CU-B)

2018-2019 Graduate Student Representative (CU-B)

2015-2017 Undergraduate student advisor (SWU)

2013 19th Annual Student Leadership certificate, SAIC, Chicago, IL

2013 Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training course, SAIC Wellness Center, Chicago, IL

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Community Outreach

2021 Pod-cast interview link (Oct. 27, 2021)

2016-2017 Chief Juror, Annual exhibition project at Space Sun+(plus), Seoul, Korea

2011 Volunteer, E-Book recording team, Korea Welfare Foundation for the Visually

Handicapped, Seoul, Korea

2010 Volunteer, G20 Seoul Summit, Seoul, Korea

2009 Volunteer, Social welfare team, Korea Cancer Center Hospital, Seoul, Korea

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