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E U N S U K A N G

E D U C A T I O N ​

2010 Ph.D. in Digital Arts and Experimental Media ​ ​ Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS), University of Washington, USA ​ ​ Dissertation: “Shin’m: Reshaping the Perceived Body with Sound” ​ ​ Project: Shin'm, audiovisual interactive installation/performance ​ ​ Advisor: Juan Pampin

2005 M.A. in Media Arts and Technology ​ ​ Media Arts and Technology Program (MAT), University of California Santa Barbara, USA ​ ​ Thesis: “Commulution: New Forms of Communication” ​ ​ Project: Projector Loquens, interactive robotic video projection system ​ ​ Advisors: George Legrady, Marcos Novak, Curtis Roads

2000 M.F.A. (Terminal degree in Fine Arts) ​ ​ ​ Ewha Womans University, Korea ​ Thesis: “Reading Images: Moving Images by Moving Thoughts” Projects: single channel videos and video installations

1997 B.F.A. (Drawing/ major) ​ Ewha Womans University, Korea ​ Projects: kinetic and static installations

E M P L O Y M E N T

2018 – Present Visiting Professor (Special Faculty) of Art and Machine Learning, School of Computer Science, ​ Carnegie Mellon University 2017 – 2018 Professional Development Leave (aka. sabbatical year), The University of Akron Adjunct Professor of Art, Carnegie Mellon University Adjunct Professor of Machine Learning, Carnegie Mellon University 2015 – 2018 Associate Professor of with Tenure ​ ​ Myers School of Art, The University of Akron 2014 Fall Maternity Leave, The University of Akron 2009 – 2015 Assistant Professor of New Media Art ​ Myers School of Art, The University of Akron 2005 – 2009 Lecturer and Teaching Assistant, University of Washington ​ 2003 – 2005 Teaching Assistant, University of California Santa Barbara ​ 2003 Lecturer, Kaywon School of Art and Design (Seoul, Korea) ​ 2003 User interface designer for a messenger software, Postnet Co. (Seoul, Korea) ​ ​ 2003 User interface designer for SoftCNC software, Turbotek Co. (Seoul, Korea) ​ ​ 2003 Music video director for Zihiion & Ahn-Hye-Kyoung Concert (Seoul, Korea) ​ ​ 2002 Music video director for Concert for Life: Trembling/Slowing/Life Giving (Seoul, Korea) ​ ​ 2001 Music video director for ZiHiion Concert (Seoul, Korea) ​ ​ 2001 User interface designer for V-works and V-ceph softwares, CyberMed Inc. (Seoul, Korea) ​ ​ 1999 Public relations movie director for Ewha Womans University Museum (Seoul, Korea) ​ ​ 1999 Public relations movie director for the Korean Youth Association (Seoul, Korea) ​ ​

1 1997 – 2000 Teaching Assistant, Ewha Womans University (Seoul, Korea) ​

S O L O E X H I B I T I O N

Some of these solo exhibitions consist of collaborative projects. All of these solo exhibitions are funded by the venue or the host organization. These solo exhibitions were invited exhibitions or awards of juried competitions for solo exhibitions.

2017 FACE, Judith Rae Solomon Gallery, Youngstown, USA ​ : Machine learning art portraits in collaboration with artificial neural networks

2011 Submerged, Doosan Gallery New York, NYC, USA ​ : Interactive audiovisual space installations and interactive dance performance

2011 Swimming in Media Space, Doosan Gallery Seoul, Seoul, Korea ​ : Interactive audiovisual space installations and interactive dance performance

2010 Shin'm performance, Wing Luke Asian Museum, Seattle, USA ​ ​ : Interactive dance performance

2010 Shin'm, Gallery KunstDoc, Seoul, Korea ​ : Interactive audiovisual space installation with wearable interface and interactive dance performance

2008 Entanglement, 911 Media Arts Center & Soil Gallery, Seattle, USA ​ : Telematic interactive sound installation between two venues in one city

2005 SeoNang, Artspace Hue in Seoul & DXARTS studio in Seattle, Korea & USA ​ : Telematic interactive audiovisual installation between two cities

2003 The Unknown Zone Mobile, KTF Mobile Network, Korea ​ : Online video exhibition on KTF cell-phone network

2003 The Unknown Zone II, Singsegae Gallery, Inchoen, Korea ​ : Visual journey through 8 installations, 1 head-mounted display, and 3 video projections

2002 The Unknown Zone_Invitation I: Aliens, Insa Art Space, Seoul, Korea ​ : Immersive space composed of 10 video projection installations

S E L E C T E D G R O U P E X H I B I T I O N

All these group exhibitions were invited exhibitions, juried selection exhibitions, or commissioned exhibitions.

2019 (upcoming) (Two artworks selected for) NeurIPS Workshop on Machine Learning for Creativity and Design 2019 Technoimagination, The Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Gallery, NYC, USA 2019 Lux Aeterna Exhibition of ISEA 2019, Gwangju, Korea 2018 (Two artworks selected for) NeurIPS Workshop on Machine Learning for Creativity and Design 2018 online gallery, aiartonline.com 2018 Paradox: The Body in the Age of AI, Miller Institute for , Pittsburgh, USA 2018 The Reason Why I Did..., ARTTAIN STAGE, Seoul, Korea 2018 Intersections, Hygienic Art Gallery, New London, USA

2 2017 Hiding in Plain Sight, Bike Powered Cinema, Pittsburgh, USA 2016 Five Galring Lights, Inchoen Art Platform, Inchon, Korea 2016 Being Her Now, SU Art Galleries, Salisbury, USA 2015 First Night Akron, Akron Art Museum, Akron, USA 2014 Water_Innocence, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea 2014 Crotchets, Quavers...and Silicon Parchment, Chapel Performance Space, Seattle, USA 2012 SIGGRAPH Asia 2012 Art Exhibition, Singapore 2012 The Future of Cage: Credo, Robert Gill Theater, Toronto, Canada 2012 27 Days of Ephemeral Sculpture, Summit Art Space, Akron, USA 2012 Daipan Butoh Festival, Velocity Dance Center, Seattle, USA 2012 Northern Spark Festival, W Minneapolis The Foshay, Minneapolis, USA 2012 13 Most American Dreams, Cleveland Public Theater, Cleveland, USA 2012 Spark Family Film Festive Interactive Media Lounge, Akron Art Museum, Akron, USA 2011 C4: Spectacle Kinect Cube, Emerging Technology La of Bierce Library, Akron, USA 2011 Ground Water: Out of Sight/Site Out of Mind, The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, USA 2011 Elegance and Grace: Beautiful People of East Asia, Ewha Womans University Museum, Seoul, Korea 2011 Collider 3: Transform, Emily Davis Gallery, Akron, USA 2011 Outlines, Crandall Gallery, Alliance, USA 2010 Ogaki Biennale, Ogaki, Japan 2010 Cultural Transcendence, Wing Luke Asian Museum, Seattle, USA 2009 ThisAbility, CAFA Museum, Beijing, China 2008 Eonni is Back, Gyoenggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea 2008 Harmony of Collision, ZKMax Gallery, Munich, Germany 2008 ASIAGRAPH 2008, Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai, China 2008 Sound Art 201, Ssamzie Space, Seoul, Korea 2008 Dancing in the Digital Domain, Meany Studio Theater, Seattle, USA 2007 Strange Things, 911 Media Arts Center, Seattle, USA 2007 Shall We Smell?, Coreana Museum of Art Space*C, Seoul, Korea 2007 off_1'c_on_line+screening, undergraoundartchannel.net, World Wide Web 2007 Imported Landscapes, Safe-T-Gallery, NYC, USA 2006 Made in Korea, Le Cube, Issy-Les-Moulineaux, France 2006 Made in Korea, Espace 60 Bolieu, Annecy, France 2006 ACM : Interactive Arts Program, Santa Barbara, USA 2006 Ephemeral Drift: A Night of International Moving Image, Hun Gallery, NYC, USA 2006 Emerging Korean Videos @ Maxim, Maxim Lounge, NYC, USA 2006 3D: Dancing in Digital Domain, Meany Studio Theater, Seattle, USA

3 2006 Post Video Garden, Ewha Womans University Campus Forest, Seoul, Korea 2006 Moving Image @ Cave, Cave Gallery, NYC, USA 2006 Interactive Playground: Sight Unseen, Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, USA 2005 SENEF Mobile & DMB Fest 2005, Media Lounge, Seoul, Korea 2005 Feminism Video Activists 2005, Seogang University Mary Hall, Seoul, Korea 2004 Seoul Net & Film Festival, Internet & Seoul, Korea 2004 Geumgang Nature Art Biennale, Gongju, Korea 2004 Media Concert, O' Little Theater, Santa Barbara, USA 2004 Virtual Soundscapes II, Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall, Santa Barbara, USA 2003 Desk Gallery Project, On a desk, Dusseldorf, Germany 2003 Han-Fluss-Rhein, Atelier Am Eck & Ballhaus Nordpark, Dusseldorf, Germany 2003 Video On Demand, Galerie PICI & RTV & Simin Broadcasting, Seoul, Korea 2003 Where is my friend's home?, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmo, Sweden 2003 Where is my friend's home?, Dumbo Arts Center, NYC, USA 2003 Inchoen Media Art Biennale, Inchoen Culture and Arts Center, Incheon, Korea 2003 Media + Art, Simin Broadcasting & RTV, Seoul, Korea 2003 Jeonju International Film Festival special exhibition Mind 2003, Jeonju, Korea 2003 Comic in Art, Art in Comic, Ewha Womans University Museum, Seoul, Korea 2003 +system Video Festival 2002-2003, BizArt Center, Shanghai, China 2003 International Women's Film Festival in Seoul, Dongsung Art Center, Seoul, Korea 2003 Video Culture Lounge: IDL TV Project, Club Sori Ssamzie Space, Seoul, Korea 2003 Pick & Pick & Pick, Ssamzie Space, Seoul, Korea

th 2002 The 6 ​ Winterthur International Short Film Festival, Winterthur, Switzerland ​ 2002 Media_City Seoul 2002, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea 2002 Modern Korean Film Festival 2002, Art Space A, Nagoya, Japan 2002 PLS, Be quite..., Gallery Sang, Seoul, Korea 2002 Living Furniture, Stone and Water Gallery, Anyang, Korea 2002 New Face 2002, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Gangheung, Korea 2002 Ssamzie Space Open Studio 3, Ssamzie Space, Seoul, Korea 2002 Crosstalk-Art Broadcasting, www.mediaart.org, World Wide Web 2002 Boiling Point, Darling Art Foundation, Seoul, Korea 2002 Ilsim Project, www.dstory.net, World Wide Web

nd 2002 The 2 ​ Women's Art Festival: East Asian Women and Herstroies, Seoul Women Plaza, Seoul, Korea ​ 2002 Indie Video Festival, Cine Cube, Seoul, Korea 2001 Goyang Contemporary Art Invitation Exhibition, Goyang Art Center, Goyang, Korea 2001 Bisang Project II, Hongdae street, Seoul, Korea

4 2001 Nomadic Video, Artside Net, Seoul, Korea 2001 Network, Techno Mart, Seoul, Korea 2001 Contemporary Art Invitation Exhibition, Inchoen Culture and Art Center, Inchoen, Korea 2001 Indie Video Festival, Cine Cube, Seoul, Korea 2001 Indie Art Festival, Theatre Chu, Seoul, Korea 2000 Daejoen Media Art 2000, Daejoen Municipal Museum of Art, Daejoen, Korea 2000 Fernegizing Sang.Sang.Hwal.Hwal., Yeohea Culture Center, Seoul, Korea 2000 RESFEST 2000 Korea, Hoam Art Hall, Seoul, Korea 2000 Media Art 21: Virtually Yours, Sejong Gallery, Seoul, Korea 2000 Indie Video Festival, Cine Cube, Seoul, Korea 2000 Cemetery Project, Gallery Wooduk, Seoul, Korea 1999 Art Factory Project, Samae Factory, Ichon, Korea 1999 Bisang Project 1, Insadong street, Seoul, Korea 1999 Confessions in the Bedroom, Bupyoung, Korea 1999 Indie Art Festival '99, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea 1999 Inchoen Post: Dialogue, Inchoen Cultuer and Art Center, Incheon, Korea 1999 Ddam, Kepco Plaza Gallery, Seoul, Korea 1999 Dialogue, Ewha Womans University Museum, Seoul, Korea 1998 SideSeeing, Woongjeon Gallery, Seoul, Korea

S E L E C T E D P U B L I C A T I O N

(upcoming) Dill, Li, Ge, Kang. “Getting Topology and Point Cloud Generation to Mesh” ​ ​ NeurIPS 2019 Proceedings. 2019. Print.

Ge, Dill, Kang, Li, Zaheer, and Poczos. “Developing Creative AI to Generate Sculptural Objects” ​ ​ ISEA 2019 Proceedings. 2019. Print.

Bidgoli, Kang, and Cardoso-Llach. “Machinic Surrogacy: Human Agents and AI-enabled Tools in Creative Practices” ISEA 2019 Proceedings. 2019. Print.

Kang, Ji, Min and Oh. “The Rise of Minority and Creativity in AI: What, Why, and How” ISEA 2019 Proceedings. 2019. Print.

Ruzicka, Kang, Gordon, Patel, Fashimpaur, and Zaheer. “The Myths of Our Time: Fake News” ISEA 2019 Proceedings. 2019. Print.

Huang, Jiang, Sun, Bai, Kang, and Poczos. “Legend of Wrong Mountain: AI Generated Opera” ISEA 2019 Proceedings. 2019. Print.

Kang, Craig, and Garcia-Snyder. “Dancing With Interactive Space.” Cybernetics Revisited issue Leonardo Electronic Almanac, USA, 2018, Online.

5 Kang. Exhibition Review “Filling up as if emptying, drawing as if erasing.” Light, Sound, Wind. YEON Books, Korea, 2016, Print.

Laramee, Thokala, et al. “Seeing the Unseen.” Biologically Inspried Computing for the Arts: Scientific Data through Graphics. ​ IGI Global, USA, 2012, Print.

Kang. “Shin'm: Reshaping the Perceived Body with Sound.” ​ ​ ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Art) 2009 Proceedings. 2009. Print. ​

Kang and Garcia-Snyder. “Pupaa: Butoh, Digital Media and Collaboration.” ​ ​ ISEA 2009 Proceedings. 2009. Print. ​ ​

Kang. “Shin'm Embryo.” ​ ​ MAIA (International Conference on Media Art and Information Aesthetics) 2009 Proceedings. 2009. Print. ​

Pampin, Kang, and Kollin. “Entanglement.” ISEA 2009 Proceedings. 2008. Print. ​ ​

Kang. “Metamorphosis: Site-Specific Installation with Ambisonic Sound and Powder Screen.” ASIAGRAPH (International Conference and Exhibition on Art, Science, and Multimedia) 2008 Proceedings. 2008. Print. ​

Pampin, Kollin, and Kang. “Ultrasonic Sound Beams in Performance and Sound Art” ICMC (International Conference) 2008 Proceedings. 2007. Print. ​

Kang. “ISEA 2006 and ZeroOne SanJose: Walking in the Jungle of Media Art.” Wolganmisool (Korean monthly art magazine). 2006. Print. ​

S E L E C T E D C O N F E R E N C E P R E S E N T A T I O N

2019 (Upcoming) “Getting Topology and Point Cloud Generation to Mesh” [Austin Dill, Chun-Liang Li, Songwei Ge, Eunsu Kang] NeurIPS 2019 Vancouver, Canada

2019 (Upcoming) “Learned Interpolation for 3D Generation” [Austin Dill, Songwei Ge, Eunsu Kang, Chun-Liang Li, Barnabas Poczos] NeurIPS 2019 Vancouver, Canada

2019 (Upcoming) “LucidDream: Controlled Temporally-Consistent DeepDream on Video” [Joel Moniz, Eunsu Kang, Barnabas Poczos] NeurIPS 2019 Vancouver, Canada

2019 (Upcoming) “Abstractions and Automatons: Balancing Myth and the Machine” panel ​ [Joel Ong, Eunsu Kang, Inmi Lee, Ha Na Lee, Robert Twomey] SLSA (Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts) 2019 Experimental Engagements Irvine, USA

2019 “Developing Creative AI to Generate Sculptural Objects” ​ [Songwei Ge, Austin Dill, Eunsu Kang, Chun-Liang Li, Manzil Zaheer, and Barnabas Poczos]

6 ISEA 2019 Gwangju, Korea

2019 “Machinic Surrogacy: Human Agents and AI-enabled Tools in Creative Practices” [Ardavan Bidgoli, Eunsu Kang, and Daniel Cardoso Llach] ISEA 2019 Gwangju, Korea

2019 “The Rise of Minority and Creativity in AI: What, Why, and How” panel [ Eunsu Kang, Haru Ji, Sey Min and Jean Oh] ISEA 2019 Gwangju, Korea

2019 “The Myths of Our Time: Fake News” [Vit Ruzicka, Eunsu Kang, David Gordon, Ankita Patel, Jacqui Fashimpaur, and Manzil Zaheer] ISEA 2019 Gwangju, Korea

2019 “Legend of Wrong Mountain: AI Generated Opera” [Lingdong Huang, Zheng Jiang, Syuan-Cheng Sun, Tong Bai, Eunsu Kang, Barnabas Poczos] ​ ​ ISEA 2019 Gwangju, Korea

2019 “Digital Mythologies: Abstractions and Automations” panel [Joel Ong, Inmi Lee, Ha Na Lee, Eunsu Kang, Robert Twomey] CAA (College of Art Association) 2019 NYC, USA

2019 “Her Stories in the Age of AI” workshop [Eunsu Kang, Haru Ji, Maja Petric, Ha Na Lee, Jinsil Hwaryoung Seo] ​ AWMAT (Women in Media Arts and Technology) 2019 Santa Barbara, USA

2018 “Hallucinating Point Cloud into 3D Sculptural Object” [Chun-Liang Li, Eunsu Kang, Songwei Ge, Lingyao Zhang, Austin Dill, Manzil Zaheer, Barnabas Poczos] NeurIPS 2018 (The Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems) Montreal, Canada

2018 “Legend of Wrong Mountain: Full Generation of Traditional Chinese Opera Using Multiple Machine Learning Algorithms” [Lingdong Huang, Zheng Jiang, Syuan-Cheng Sun, Tong Bai, Eunsu Kang, Barnabas Poczos] NeurIPS 2018 (The Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems) Montreal, Canada

2013 "Dancing with Interactive Space: Fluid Cave, Membranes, and Shin'm 2.0" [Kang, Craig, Garcia-Snyder] HASTAC 2013 (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory) York University, Toronto, Canada

2012 "The Shin'm Series Interactive Space and Dance" [Kang, Craig, Garcia-Snyder] The Future of Cage: CREDO University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

7 2012 "Dancing with Interactive Space: Comparing Human-Space Interface of Shin'm 2.0 using Kinect Sensor and of Shin'm using Wearable Interface" [Kang, Craig, Garcia-Snyder] The Interactive Media Art Conference 2012 Copenhagen, Denmark

2011 Speed presentation [Kang] Art && Code 3D Conference Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

2009 "Pupaa, the Body of Elsewhere: Body Metamorphosis in Butoh and Digital Media" [Kang, Garcia-Snyder] SDHS 2009 (Society of Dance History Scholars) Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA

2009 "Shin'm: Reshaping the Perceived Body with Sound" [Kang] ISEA 2009 (International Symposium on Electronic Art) Belfast, UK

2009 "Pupaa: Butoh, Digital Media and Collaboration" [Kang, Garcia-Snyder] ISEA 2009 Belfast, UK

2009 "Shin'm Embryo" [Kang] MAIA (The Second International Conference on Media Art and Information Aesthetics) Beijing, China

2008 "Entanglement" [Pampin, Kang, Kollin] ISEA 2008 Singapore 2008 "Pupaa, the Body of Elsewhere: Body Metamorphosis in Butoh and Digital Media" [Kang, Garcia-Snyder] ASTR 2008 (American Society for Theatre Research) Boston, USA

2007 "Ultrasonic Sound Beams in Performance and Sound Art" [Pampin, Kollin, Kang] ICMC 2007 (The International Computer Music Conference) Copenhagen, Denmark

S E L E C T E D A R T I S T T A L K

2019 (Upcoming) Panel discussion at the “Living Data: AI, A-Life & Data Art”, a part of the Korean Media Art Festival, The Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Gallery, NYC, USA

2019 Panel presentation at the “Symposium: AI X Art”, a part of the Live Ideas festival, New York Live Arts Theater, NYC, USA

2019 “Paradox: Frames and Biases in Art and AI” symposium organization with Elizabeth Chodos (co-organizer), Manuela Veloso, Alexandra Chouldechova, Sey Min, Jillian Mayer, and

8 Kerry Doran (panel members) Miller ICA, Pittsburgh, USA

2018 “A.I. and Art”, Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, Pittsburgh, USA

2018 “Art with Machines: from Interaction to Collaboration” TIMARA (Technology in Music and Related Arts Program), Oberlin College, Oberlin, USA

2016 Digital Media area of Art department, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, USA

2016 School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington, Tacoma, USA

2014 "Eunsu Kang: Inaudible Songs, Invisible Spaces" Media Arts and Technology Graduate Program, University California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, USA

2014 "Faculty Lecture by Eunsu Kang" Student Art League of Myers School of Art, The University of Akron, Akron, USA

2012 Digital Media Program, York University, Toronto, Canada

2012 Camille Utterback's Media art class, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

2011 "Careers in New Media" panel discussion Myers School of Art, The University of Akron, Akron, USA

2011 Art School, University of Mount Union, Mount Union, USA

2010 "Eunsu Kang: Swimming in the New Media" Myers School of Art Design Week, The University of Akron, Akron, USA

2010 "New Media Art" Computer Science class, The University of Akron, Akron, USA

2010 "Swimming in the New Media" ITL Seminar, The University of Akron, Akron, USA

2010 IAMAS AIR Artist presentation Institution for Advanced Media Arts and Science, Japan

2008 "How Does the Body Speak? Digital Media in Performance" Theater Arts and Dance dept., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

2007 "Webcasting Project: Crossing Talks about Interactivity" Crecloo Art Gallery, NYC, USA

2007 Upgrade! Seattle, 911 Media Art Center, Seattle, USA

2006 "Media Artist Eunsu Kang with a Talk by Media Theorist Jaeho Kang" Upgrade! Seoul, Art Center Nabi, Seoul, Korea

2006 "The Creation Process: Media Art Project, Imago" IGERT seminar, University of California Santa Barbara, USA

9 2006 Department of Media Technology, Sogang University, Korea

2002 School of Art, Dankook University, Yongin, Korea

2001 "New Media Art" Graduate School of Art, Ewha Womens University, Korea

2000 "Eunsu Kang's Video Artworks" Seoul Institute of the Arts, Korea

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