User:Tyg18/sandbox

Laura Hyunjheen Kim was born in Palo Alto, California on 1987. Kim is a Korean-American artist who works with Video, performance, and the Internet as a medium to provide familiar physical experiences into digitally fabricated (non) existent spaces that reimagine digital cultural. Kim’s recent projects study universal consumer- grade technology and ‘readymade’ apps that control online experiences, influence behavior, create new daily rituals and reconfigure everyday life. She has worked with on and offline exhibition spaces and festivals all around including CAAMFest, Kadist Art Foundation, The Internet Archive and many more. Kim received the inaugular ArtSlant Award in new media and the Saly Owen Marshall best in show Award. Her work has been featured in ArtSlant, KQED, New Hive, Mutual Art, and The One. She lives and works in San Francisco, California.

Early life and Education
Kim was born in Palo Alto, California. When she was nine years old, she moved to Seoul, South Korea. As a teen she returned to the states where she attend the University of Wisconsin- Madison. She studies biology but after taking a Renaissance Art History course, she became interested in contemporary art. Kim received her B.S. in art. She currently lives in San Francisco where she received her M.F.A. in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute.

Career
Tourist Photo: #tourist, 2016

It’s an ongoing project in collaboration with visitors of San Francisco” Worlds Famous Crookedest street, Lombard Street. Lombard Street is a San Francisco landmark that attracts people from all over. While visitors are observing the beautiful view, they also use their smartphones or ipads to take pictures for each other. This allows for fast interaction between strangers. Kim asks for a “tourist” to take a picture of her and in return she offers to do the same for that person. Self- Portrait with Slurpee, 2013

It’s a picture of Kim with a Slurpee in her hand while making the “peace” sign with the other. In the photo, it looks like she is at a amusement park but the image behind her is clearly a digital photograph.

Year of the black snake rattles its tail, 2013

The image is the Mona lisa with a sloth face and a snake around her neck.

Be My Clone (screen capture), 2013

This piece is about electronic devices and digital platforms that contribute to data storage and memory retention.

Control Freak, 2012

This piece is a video (2min 11sec) or Kim with a pixelated rainbow background. The video explores the repetition of the word “control” in relation to touch screens.

Recent Projects
(Modern) Foundations 1, 2016

This work is a video in loop that is 1 minute and 30 seconds. It attempts to examine and extract the absurd beauty of being part of a world that is filtered through screens. It shows multiple individuals interacting with their smartphones. This project intends to explode the relationship between materiality, physicality, and virtuality.

(Modern) Foundations 2, 2016

It’s a video in loop that lasts for 1 minute and 30 seconds.

(Modern) Foundations 3, 2016

This video the last one for the projects and it’s also lasts for a minute and 30 seconds. It documents smartphone behavior of 34 individuals who were directed to respond to certain standing positions. Some of the commands were to turn on the phone and wait till it turned on completely, enter a passcode, check for wifi or data service, check the phone for notifications, check email and see if they had any, check social media, check calendar, check for texts, check for voicemails, call a number and talk to the caller, take a photo of Laura, take a selfie and email the photo to Laura.

Medium 1: Thought it was a Ghost…But…, 2016

This project is one out of two. The video focuses on human- forms mediated through popular digital technology. It emphasizes online experiences that bring a sense of shared physical and material presence. It investigates human condition through the screens. The project intends to capture the mysterious myths, legends and phenomena documented on the web.

Medium 2: Virality, 2016

This is the second video and it lasts for 30 seconds. “Medium 2: Virality” captures the virality of online hoax and spam messages that make individuals to take action (such as copy and paste). Promising dire real- life consequences if overlooked.

Solo exhibitions
BWP/ AiRVI: Laura Hyunjhee Kim, 2016

Kim was will be residence here from May 16 to June 2, with public hours on Thursdays and Fridays from 6pm to 9pm, and Saturdays 11am-3pm. The work created on-site will culminate into a solo exhibition opening Friday, June 3, 7-10pm and on view through June 17. Grey Matter Paradise, 2012

Is a multimedia exhibition showing the recent drawings and videos that Kim completed. It analyzes her changes of identities formed by interaction. The exhibition incorporates both static and non-static imagery that blends and bends popular culture, art history, science and technology with a twist of kaleidoscopic imagination and blank humor. Hide and Seek, 2011

Kim showcases a sampling from her video art portfolio. The videos show us the dependability of the identities that people take on an everyday life and media. Type 3 Toy, 2011

Is composed in four short videos. This project tries to address a cross- cultural language of identity. The project is about how children see Spider-Man as a mutant superhero that preserves humanity. To the young girl, the fiction becomes a dream in a reality that humanity no longer seems to prevail its morals and judges according to her ethnic background. Featured Student Artist, 2008

Awards
•	ArtSlant Award Winner in New Media, ERROR 415, ArtSlant, 2013

•	New Genres Spirit of Tradition Award, San Francisco Art Institute New Genres Department, 2011

•	The Most Prolific Award, San Francisco Art Institute New Genres Department, 2011

•	Silver Angel Audience Award, The Society of 23 Biennial, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco CA, USA, 2011

•	Sally Owen Marshall Best In Show Award, EIGHTY TWO “Artists Emerge,” Potter Butts & Class of 1925 Galleries, Madison WI, USA, 2010

Publications
•	Recibo F5, Bia Rodriguez, 2017

•	Special Guest number 8, Living Room Light Exchange Publication (issue 01), and My 5 Internet Obsessions, 2016

•	The One and Out of Print Gallery, 2012

•	Textinction, Tex Gallery Year Book, 2011

•	Illumination: Undergraduated Journal of Humanities, 2009