SOLO + TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS_______________________________________
2020/21
“Living Lab,” Archer Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WA. [11/19/2020-2/5/2021]
2019
“Sharing Turtle™,” Museum of Human Achievement, Austin, TX. [Solo for Sharing Turtle™ with libi rose striegl. 12/21-12/31/2019]
“Sharing Turtle™,” ElectroCities & Electrofringe, Sydney, Australia [Solo for Sharing Turtle™ with libi rose striegl. 7/1 - 9/31/2019]
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS___________________________________________
2020
“The Archive to Come,” Telematic Media Arts, San Francisco, CA. [10/22-12/17/2020]
“For Your Pleasure: A TikTok Exhibition,” Sydney, Australia. [8/13-8/31/2020]
"Well Now WTF," Refraction Festival, Online. [7/16-7/30/2020]
“Vicarious Touching,” HARD/SOFT: Faith Holland, Transfer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. [6/4-7/30/2020]
“Everything is Astericked*,” Maybe Blue Art Space, Boulder, CO. [6/29-7/3/2020]
“WellNow.WTF,” Online [4/4/2020-Present]
“Applied Forces,” Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA. [1/18-3/28/2020]
“Life Hacks(and Other Embodied Technologies),” Telematic Media Arts, San Francisco, CA. [1/17-2/29/2020]
“Brutal Realities,” Dairy Arts Center, Boulder, CO. [1/17-2/23/2020]
“Ossuary,” Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (MIAD), Milawukee, WI [1/13-3/7/2020]
2019
“Scareware,” The Wrong New Digital Art Biennale, Daniela Elbahara Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico. [11/14/2019]
“Spinning Beach Ball of Death,” Fusebox Festival, Museum of Human Achievement, Austin, TX. [4/18-4/20/2019]
2018
“Synthetic Zero: Looking At What We Don’t Want To Look At,” Bronx Art Space, Bronx, NY.
“Fluxo Fluido,” Bienal Internacional de Curitiba, Museu Municipal de Arte - MuMA, Curitiba, Brazil.
“Art of Data,” Canyon Gallery, Boulder Public Library, Boulder, CO.
[ Sharing Turtle™ with libi rose striegl. 12/7/2018-2/3/2019]
[ Sharing Turtle™ with libi rose striegl. 12/7/2018-2/3/2019]
“Emoji d’aubergine / Emoji de visage riant aux larmes / Emoji de bras tenant un cellulaire,” Atelier Radio,
Montréal, Québec, Canada. Online on Instagram. [10/15/2018-Present]
Montréal, Québec, Canada. Online on Instagram. [10/15/2018-Present]
“TECHNE Lab,” Harvestworks and Streaming Museum, Governors Island, NY. [5/25-10/21/2018]
“TECHNE Lab,” Made in NY Media Center in Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY. [7/6-7/31/2018]
“BE SOMEBODY!!,” Serial Box Projects, Columbia, MO. [3/1-4/1/2018]
2017
“The Homeostase,” The Wrong New Digital Art Biennale, Centro Cultural São Paulo - CCSP, São Paulo, Brazil.
“Disavowal, “ATLAS Black Box Experimental Studio, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO.
“Internet Archive Residency Exhibition,” Ever Gold Projects, Minnesota Street Project,
San Francisco, CA. [8/5-8/26/2017]
San Francisco, CA. [8/5-8/26/2017]
SCREENINGS___________________________________________________________
2020
“Acting:Transhuman,” 16th Athens Digital Art Festival, Athens, Greece. [7/10-9/10/202]
“Locals Only,” Collective Misnomer, Denver, CO. Online. [4/6/2020]
2019
“Women in Media Technology,” Athens Digital Art Festival, Athens, Greece. [6/1-6/2/2019]
“When I Look at You,” Queer Rebels, Alley Cat Books, San Francisco, CA. [4/20/2019]
“HOT STEAM II: A Science / Video / Art Screening,” MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA. [4/18/2019]
“Performative Computation Symposium,” NAVEL, Los Angeles, CA. [3/10/2019]
2018
“Lungs Project,” Cobalt Studios, Newcastle, UK [10/9/2018]
“Colorado Spotlight,” Supernova Digital Animation Festival, Denver Digirati, Denver, CO [9/22/2018]
“#Cyborgs,” Peripheral Forms, Portland, OR. Online.
Scenes and Screens Festival, AltSpaceVR, Microsoft, Virtual [6/8/2018]
First Friday Film Night, Firehouse Art Center, Longmont, CO.
PERFORMANCES___________________________________________________________
"Re! Vive!” Virtual Matter(s)II Online Performance Art Series, The Hive Art Community. [4/17-4/18/2021]
2020
“Synthetic Empathic Intelligent Companion Artefacts (SEICA) Human Interaction Labs, Mind the Gap,
Electronic Literature Organization Conference, Montreal, Québec, Canada. [8/14/2018]
Electronic Literature Organization Conference, Montreal, Québec, Canada. [8/14/2018]
ARTIST RESIDENCIES______________________________________________________
2019
Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY. [with Surabhi Saraf, M Eifler, Caroline Sinders as Centre for Emotional Materiality. 9/13-12/13/2019]
ElectroCities & Electrofringe, Sydney, Australia. [Sharing Turtle™ with with libi rose striegl. 7/1 - 9/31/2019]
Lungs Project Creative Incubator Program, Online. [7/1 - 9/31/2019]
Internet Moon Gallery, Online. [“SEICA Human Interaction Labs: Internet Sentiment Study,” with Chris Corrente and Manuel Minch. 8/15-9/14/2019]
2018
Welcome to My Homepage Digital Residency, The Museum of Human Achievement, Austin, TX. [Sharing Turtle™ with with libi rose striegl. 12/1-12/31/2018]
Centre for Emotional Materiality, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA. [10/2-12/15/2018]
2017
Internet Archive, San Francisco, CA.
SCHOLARSHIPS & FELLOWSHIPS___________________________________________
SCHOLARSHIPS & FELLOWSHIPS___________________________________________
2021
Graduate School Dissertation Completion Fellowship, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO. [7/10/2020]
2019
Gerald C. Bean Memorial Scholarship, College of Media, Communication, and Information (CMCI), University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO.
NMC Distinguished Scholar Award, New Media Caucus
CMCI Graduate Student Fellowship, College of Media, Communication, and Information (CMCI), University of Colorado Boulder
2017 - 2019
HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory) Scholar Fellow.
GRANTS, HONORS & AWARDS_____________________________________________
2020
Video Art Award, Black Cube.
Honorable Mention and Micro-Grant, CHA Shelter in Place Award, Center for Humanities & the Arts,
University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO. [5/24/2020]
Judson-Morrison Excellence Award in New Media, New Media Caucus, College Arts Association.
2019
Big Other Book Award for Nonfiction Finalist, Big Other. [3/13/2019]
National Science Foundation (NSF) Travel Grant, Society for Science, Literature, and the Arts.
Graduate Travel Grant, Society for Science, Literature, and the Arts.
2018
National Science Foundation (NSF) Travel Grant, Society for Science, Literature, and the Arts.
Graduate Travel Grant, Society for Science, Literature, and the Arts.
Long-listed, Lumen Prize for Art and Technology.
Partial Grant Awardee (with Jen Liu for “Promontory Project: A Case Study of the Annihilation of Time and Space”), Nature, Environment, Science & Technology (NEST) Studio for the Arts.
PUBLISHED BOOKS______________________________________________________
2019
“Remixing Persona: An Imaginary Digital Media Object from the Onto-tales of the Digital Afterlife,”
coauthor Mark Amerika, Book, Open Humanities Press. [11/2019]
coauthor Mark Amerika, Book, Open Humanities Press. [11/2019]
“Entering the Blobosphere: A Musing on Blobs,” Book, Civil Coping Mechanisms / The Accomplices. [6/17/2019]
ACADEMIC JOURNALS (PEER-REVIEWED)________________________________
2021
“The Robot Does Not Exist: Remixing Psychic Automatism and Artificial Creative Intelligence,” co-authored with Mark Amerika and Brad Gallagher, Forking Paths in New Media Art Practices: Investigating Remix, Vol. 17 No. 1. [1/15/2021]
2020
“Fatal Error: Artificial Creative Intelligence (ACI),” co-authored with Mark Amerika and Brad Gallagher, Alt.Chi, CHI. [Conference cancelled due to COVID-19. 4/2020]
2019
“Trash Queen Pulverator (T.Q.P),” introduction by Lori Emerson, Apocryphal Technologies, Jamie Allen and Anthony Enns, Continent., Online. [11/2019]
BOOK, MAGAZINE, ZINE, ARTICLE, CHAPBOOKS & CATALOG_CONTRIBUTIONS__
2021
The Whole Sell, Curated by Nina Sarnelle, Praksis, Oslo, Norway. [3/21/2021]
2019
“GUEST,” Edited by Brenda Iijima, above/ground press. [3/2019]
“Biodigitally,” Important Magazine,”Hervisions, Issue 2. [3/2019]
2018
“College of Media, Communication, and Information,” Fall 2018 issue cover spread. CU Boulder. [11/2018]
“Polyvoices,” Lungs Project, Issue 3, [10/2018]
#Cyborgs, Peripheral Forms, [9/2018]
“Thank You For Nothing (TYFN) Zine,” Renae Moua, Vol.2. [6/2018]
2017
“Living Room Light Exchange Publication (STATE CHANGE, Issue 02),” Living Room Light Exchange.
“RECIBO F5,” Bia Rodrigez (BIARRITZZZ), Online.
INVITED ARTIST TALKS__________________________________________________
2021
Artist Talk (Virtual), University of Colorado Boulder, Theories of the Avant-Garde, Erin Espelie, Boulder, CO [4/21/2021]
Artist Talk (Virtual), University of Colorado Boulder, Remix Culture, Mark Amerika, Boulder, CO [3/8/2021]
Artist Talk (Virtual), Stanford University, Digital Art, Jenny Odell, Stanford, CA [3/7/2021]
2020
Artist Talk (Virtual), University of Oregon Eugene, Intro to Video Art, Rick Silva, Eugene, OR. [8/11/2020]
Artist Talk (Virtual), Stanford University, Digital Art, Jenny Odell, Stanford, CA [6/1/2020]
2019
Artist Talk, University of Colorado Boulder, Undergraduate Seminar, Jorge Perez-Gallago, Boulder, CO.
Artist Talk, University of Colorado Boulder, Media Performance, Ondine Geary, Boulder, CO.
Artist Talk, University of Washington, Time-Based Art, Whitney Lynn, Seattle, WA. [5/16/2019]
CSU Electronic Art Speaker Series, Art & Art History, Colorado State University, Colorado Springs, CO.
Artist Talk, Colorado State University, Interactive Media, Cyane Tornatzky, Colorado Springs, CO.
2018
Artist Talk, University of Colorado Boulder, Graduate Dance Seminar, Michelle Ellsworth, Boulder, CO.
Artist Talk, University of Colorado Boulder, Digital Arts 2, Ryan Wade Ruehlen, Boulder, CO.
Artist Talk, University of Colorado Denver, Video Art, Ryan Wurst, Denver, CO.
Artist Talk, Scenes and Screens Festival, AltSpaceVR, Microsoft, Virtual.
Artist Talk (Virtual), University of California, Berkeley, Video / Performance, Whitney Lynn, Berkeley, CA.
Artist Talk, University of Colorado Boulder, Digital Arts 1, Angie Eng, Boulder, CO.
2017
Artist Talk, University of California, Berkeley, Advanced Senior Projects, Allan DeSouza, Berkeley, CA.
WORKSHOPS_____________________________________________________________
2021
“Feeling without Touching,” Workshop, Platform (Post?) Pandemic, Electronic Literature Organization Conference and Festival. [5/24-5/25/2021]
“Remix Culture” lecture-workshop, Mark Amerika University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO [3/8/2021]
2020
“Feeling without Touching: An Archive of Feelosophic Artefacts from the Living Lab,” Archer Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WA. [Remote. 12/2/2020]
“Embodied Emotional Resilience,” with Surabhi Saraf, Fruits of the Pluralist, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY. [Postponed from 3/23 and held remotely due to COVID-19. 5/19/2020]
“Hi-Feel Lo-Tech Workout: Relaxation and Recovery,” Heavy Breathing, San Francisco, CA. Online. [3/31/2020]
2019
“Emotions as Materials”, Study Circle Moderator and Collaborator with Centre for Emotional Materiality, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY.
PEER-REVIEWED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS__________________________
2021
“Feeling without Touching,” Workshop, Platform (Post?) Pandemic, Electronic Literature Organization Conference and Festival. [5/24-5/25]
2019
Presenter, “The Power of Slippery Forms,” Experimental Engagements, Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, Irvine, CA.
Presenter, “New Media Showcase,” New Media Caucus, New York, NY.
Poster Session, College Arts Association, New York, NY.
2018
Presenter, “Creative Workshops of Matter,” Out of Mind, Society for Literature, Science, and Art, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Panelist, “Innovations in Art + Law + Technology,” Colorado Creative Industries Summit, Greeley, CO.
Panelist, “Section 512 Safe Harbor: Challenges and Opportunities in User-Generated Content,” Silicon Flatirons, Boulder, CO
INVITED PRESENTATIONS AND SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS__________________
2020
Speaker (Virtual), “WYD (What’re You Doing),” NAVEL, Los Angeles, LA [5/23/2020]
Panelist (Virtual), “Centre for Emotional Materiality: Reflections on the Techno-Emoto-Sphere,” wellnow.wtf. [5/13/2020]
Conversation (Virtual), “Absurd Digital World,” Dairy Arts Center, Boulder, CO. [5/7/2020]
Panelist (Virtual), “Emotional Materiality Across Mixed Realities,” Silicon Valet, wellnow.wtf. [5/1/2020]
Chair, “Edge of Being,” New Media Caucus Featured Program, CAA Media Lounge, College Arts Association (CAA), Chicago, IL. [2/13/2020]
2018
Panelist, “Innovations in Art + Law + Technology,” Colorado Creative Industries Summit, Greeley, CO.
Panelist, “Section 512 Safe Harbor: Challenges and Opportunities in User-Generated Content,” Silicon Flatirons, Boulder, CO.
2017
Speaker, “Nam June Paik: In Character,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA.
Panelist, “Internet Archive Public Programming,” Ever Gold [Projects], San Francisco, CA. [8/5/2017]
BIBLIOGRAPHY_________________________________________________________
2020
“Issue 1. Functional Openness,” CMU Miller ICA control, [4/2/2020]
2018
“How Art Can Be Thought: A Handbook for Change,” Allan deSouza, Duke University Press. [11/2018]
2017
“The Synapse Before the Charge: Mediated Bodies in the Works of Laura Hyunjhee Kim and Cara Rose DeFabio,” Dorothy R. Santos, Shared Studios. [10/2017]
COMMISSIONS & PARTICIPATIONS________________________________________
2020
“Touching Party,” HARD/SOFT: Faith Holland, Transfer Gallery, Online. [8/21/2020]
“Got Milk?,” Milk advertising campaign, MilkPEP [8/3/2020-8/2/2021]
The Nieuwstraat Festival, organized by Unnoticed Art and The Concept Bank, Dordrecht, Netherlands. [6/20/2020]
“Seed Seekers,” with Kevin Sweet, Creative Neighborhoods: COVID-19 Work Projects, City of Boulder Office of Arts and Culture, Boulder, CO. [4/31-12/31/2020]
Art & Tech BFA Review Guest Critiquer, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR. [4/7/2020]
“Heavy Breathing 2019-2020 Season Artist,” Heavy Breathing, San Francisco, CA.
2019
“The Rehearsal Artist,” Michelle Ellsworth, Commissioned Dancer, Fusebox Festival, Austin, TX. [4/18-4/20/2019]
“The Rehearsal Artist,” Michelle Ellsworth, Commissioned Dancer, On the Boards, Seattle, WA. [4/4-4/6/2019]
“Post-Verbal Social Network,” Michelle Ellsworth, Dancer, Video / Performance Project.
2018
“Art of Data,” (Sharing Turtle, Collaboration with Libi Rose Striegl), City of Boulder, CO. [12/7/2018-2/3/2019]
PRESS, ARTICLES & REVIEWS ____________________________________________
2021
“Profile: Laura Hyunjhee Kim,” Flights of Fancy, Natalie Hegert, Southwest Contemporary. [Spring 2021]
2020
“Entering the Blobosphere: A Musing on Blobs,” Joseph Houlihan, Rain Taxi. [11/1/2020]
“A View From the Easel During Times of Quarantine,” Elisa Wouk Almino, Hyperallergic. [7/17/2020]
“Faith Holland on dick pics and collective mourning,” Giampaolo Bianconi, Art Forum. [6/22/2020]
“Artists Create ‘Seed Seekers’ Scavenger Hunt,” Shay Castle, Community Foundation Boulder County. [6/10/2020]
“A guarantee of sanity,” Caitlin Rockett, Boulder Weekly. [5/14/2020]
“Denver artists create off-beat videos to capture this historic time,” Ray Mark Rinaldi, Denver Post. [4/19/2020]
2019
“Language Cells: Laura Hyunjhee Kim’s Entering the Blobosphere,” Mike Corrao, Empty Mirror. [6/14/2019]
“Vol.1 Brooklyn’s June 2019 Preview,” Book of the Month, Vol. 1 Brooklyn. [5/30/2019]
“A Blobcounter: A Editor’s Foreword,” Janice Lee, Entropy Magazine. [5/20/2019]
“Laura Hyunjhee Kim Probes the Power of Social Media,” Lumen Prize Collection on Meural. [2/27/2019]
2018
“Academics in the Spotlight,” Carla Rapoport, The Lumen Prize. [8/27/2018]
2017
“Internet Archive is a treasure trove of materials for artists,” Charles Demaris, San Francisco Chronicle (Paper/Print). [8/11/2017]
WEB, PODCAST, & BROADCAST MEDIA_______________________________________
2020
“Experts: Art can be a source of therapy during pandemic even for those without artistic skill,” Dan Grossman, Denver Channel 7 News. [5/27/2020]
“Laura Hyunjhee Kim in Conversation with Blair Murphy,” Arlington Arts Center. [4/23/2020]
2019
“Blobs - Laura Hyunjhee Kim,” What’s My Thesis, Podcast. [6/10/2019]
“Interview with The Accomplice Laura Hyunjhee Kim,” The Accomplices. [6/7/2019]
2018
“Laura Hyunjhee Kim Honored as a Colorado Creative,” Susan Froyd, Westword. [9/28/2018]
“Episode 5,” Peter Max Lawrence. Time Waster Radio. [10/2018]
“Sonic Futures,” Patricia Cariño, SF Untitled Art Fair. [1/14/2018]
ACADEMIC SERVICES & COMMITTEES_____________________________________
2019 - Present
Media-N Journal, Editorial Board, New Media Caucus
Digital Art Certificate and Minor Program Committee, University of Colorado Boulder, CO
Center for Media, Arts and Performance(CMAP) Advisory Committee, University of Colorado Boulder, CO
2018 - 2020
CMCI Diversity, Equity, and Integrity Graduate Advisory Committee, University of Colorado Boulder, CO
2017 - 2019
HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory) Scholar Fellow
CERTIFICATES____________________________________________________________
2019
Digital Humanities Certificate, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO. [Spring. 2019]