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Byeong Sam Jeon BYEONG SAM JEON Personal Website: www.bsjeon.net Organizational Website: www.koian.com Email: [email protected] Office: 82-2-2038-8290 Address: 7F Sinmyeong BD. 834-44, Yeoksam-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea BIOGRAPHY Byeong Sam Jeon is an internationally recognized artist, researcher, and educator working at the confluence of art and science. His interests include Telematic Culture, Robotic Art, Embodied Interaction, Physical Computing, Trans-Humanism, and STEAM Education. For a decade, Jeon has been invited to present his artwork and research worldwide including: SIGGRAPH (USA), ISIMD (Turkey), LIFE: Version of Science (Russia), ArtBots (Ireland), AsiaGraph (China), SALON (Cuba), Netfilmmakers (Denmark), Siggraph-ASIA (Singapore), DALSMA (Korea), and elsewhere. One of his well-known projects, 'Telematic Drum Circle' has gathered more than 300,000 Internet users and offline participants from 59 countries to perform tele-robotic sound improvisation together since it was premiered at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology in September 2007. Jeon, as a theater director, has produced the world-first robot musical 'Robotata' (2011), the main performance of Korea Science Fest ‘Science for Dream’ (2010), and the opening performance of the 60th International Astronautical Congress ‘Feast of Space’ (2009). As a curator, he directed the international new media art exhibition 'ThisAbility'(China), 'Machine Dreams'(Korea), 'Interactive Playground'(USA), and several others. Byeong Sam Jeon currently works as the president of 'Korea Interdisciplinary Arts Network' (KoIAN) and a research professor in the Department of Media Design at Woosong University, Korea. 1 ACADEMIC EDUCATION 2008-2009 Ph.D. Studies in Electronic Arts (Completion of 3 semesters) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA (Dean’s Scholarship / HASS Fellowship Award) 2006-2008 Master of Science (MS) – Informatics & Computer Science University of California, Irvine, CA, USA (Medici Scholar Award / Dean’s Fellowship / Graduate Research Award) 2003-2005 Master of Fine Arts (MFA) - Art and Technology Studies The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, USA (2nd Year International Grad Scholarship / MFA Graduation Fellowship Award) 1996-2002 Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) - Sculpture Hongik University, Seoul, Korea (Summa Cum Laude / Early Graduation) AWARDS, HONORS, GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS & FELLOWSHIPS 2011 Research Grant for Industrial Technology of Cultural Contents 2011, Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA), Seoul, Korea 2011 Research Grant for Science-Theater Convergence II, Korea Foundation for the Advancement and Creativity (KOFAC), Seoul, Korea 2011 Interdisciplinary Art Research Grant Award, Seoul Arts Foundation, Seoul, Korea 2011 Social Enterprise Business Development Fund, Ministry of Employment and Labor, Seoul, Korea 2011 Social Enterprise Employment Support Fund in Art, Ministry of Employment and Labor, Seoul, Korea 2010 Science Research Grant for NGO, Korea Foundation for the Advancement and Creativity (KOFAC), Seoul, Korea 2011 Public Attraction Scenario Award, Gyeongnam Robot Industry Foundation, Changwon, Korea 2010 Research Grant for Science-Theater Convergence, Korea Foundation for the Advancement and Creativity (KOFAC), Seoul, Korea 2010 Preliminary Social Enterprise Support Fund in Art, Ministry of Employment and Labor, Seoul, Korea 2 2009 Art Research Grant Award, Seoul Arts Foundation, Seoul, Korea 2009 RPI HASS Fellowship Award, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA 2009 Research Grant Award for Visual Artists 2009, Arts Council Korea, Seoul, Korea 2009 Preliminary Social Enterprise Support Fund in Art, Ministry of Employment and Labor, Seoul, Korea 2008 Artist Grant Award 2008, Arts Council Korea, Seoul, Korea 2008 HASS Research Travel Grant Award 2008, School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA 2008 Leonardo Art/Science Contest Award 2008, Leonardo: Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology, Berkeley, CA, USA 2008 Research Grant Award for Interdisciplinary Artists 2008, Arts Council Korea, Seoul, Korea 2007 Medici Scholar Award, Claire Trevor School of the Arts, UCI, Irvine, CA, USA 2007 Research Grant Award for Interdisciplinary Artists 2007, Arts Council Korea, Seoul, Korea 2006 UCI Graduate Research Award 2006, School of Arts, UC Irvine, CA, USA 2006 Dean’s Fellowship, University of California Irvine, CA, USA 2006 Selected Curatorship, Bodies of Work: Chicago Festival of Disability Arts and Culture 2006, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago, IL, USA 2005 MFA Fellowship Award (Juror Group: Joe Amrhein (Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn), Pieranna Cavalchini (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston) and James Fuentes (Deitch Projects, NYC)), The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA 2004 Final Winner of 2004 Selection of Group Exhibition, G2 Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA 2004 International Graduate Student Scholarship, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA 2002 Art Research Grant Award, Arts Council Korea, Seoul, Korea 2001 Competition Division Award of 4th Seoul Marginal Theater Festival, Seoul, Korea 2001 Winner of Tae-Ahn Outdoor Sculpture Contest, Tae-Ahn, Korea 2000 Hongik Univ. Scholarship for the President of the Student Council in Dept. of Sculpture 1999 Third Prize of 7th Taebaek Snow Sculpture Festival, Taebaek Mountain, Korea 1998 Third Prize of Republic of Korea Armed Forces 50th Anniversary Art, Korean Army Headquarters, Seoul, Korea 1996 Hongik Univ. Scholarships (Fall 1996 / Spring 1997 / Spring 2000 / Spring 2001 / Fall 2001), Seoul, Korea 1995 Mokwon Univ. Scholarship (4 year full scholarship awarded to outstanding new student) 3 SOLO EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES 2010 Splendid Scenery (6th Solo Exhibition), Hyundai Department Store (Main Branch) Special Exhibition Hall, Seoul, Korea 2009 TELEROBOT_NANTA (5th Solo Exhibition), Television12 Gallery (Seoul, Korea) & RPI Darrin Communications Center (Troy, USA) 2008 Telematic Drum Circle (4th Solo Exhibition), California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, Irvine, CA, USA 2004 We Are Romantic (3rd Solo Exhibition), Sensorium, 112 Michigan Building, Chicago, IL, USA 2000 Freedom Exists or Not - Solo performance and seminar, Mapo Street & Student Center in Hongik University, Seoul, Korea 1996 Mysterious Angle & View, F504 Gallery in Hongik University, Seoul, Korea LECTURES & RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS 2011 ‘UX Designer’s Convergence Era’, UX Camp Seoul, Invited Lecture, DAUM Communications Headquarter, Seoul, Korea 2011 ‘STEAM Convergence and Creative Contents’, Korea Advanced Institute of Women in Science, Engineering and Technology (WISET), Invited Lecture, WISET Headquarter, Seoul, Korea 2011 ‘Future Science Life’, 2011 Korea Science and Technology Annual Meeting, Panel Discussion, Kim Dae-Jung Convention Center, Gwangju, Korea 2011 ‘Convergence of Art and Science’, Design for Woman’s Concern Association (DWCA), Invited Lecture, Ehwa Womans University, Seoul, Korea 2011 ‘Multimedia Design’ Class (Fall Semester), Woosong University, Daejeon, Korea 2011 Artist Talk, Moscow Center for Contemporary Art WINZAVOD, Moscow, Russia 2011 ‘Multimedia Contents Production’ Class (Spring Semester), Woosong University, Daejeon, Korea 2010 ‘Robot Performance Robot Nanta’, Convergence Forum ‘New Media Technologies & Cutting-Edge Performance Contents’, The Korea Federation of Science and Technology Societies (FOFST), Seoul, Korea 2010 ‘Web Techniques’ Class (Fall Semester), Woosong University, Daejeon, Korea 4 2010 ‘Disability as Creative Inspirations in the Context of Media’, Busan Media Center, Invited Lecture, Busan, Korea 2010 ‘Media Façade’, Digital Architecture and Large Scale Media (DALSMA), Invited Lecture, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea 2010 Artist Talk, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark 2010 ‘Convergence of Sciences and Arts’, Korea Foundation for the Advancement and Creativity, Invited Lecture, Seoul, Korea 2010 ‘The Imagination Project’, Yonsei University, Institute of Media Art, Guest Lecture, Seoul, Korea 2010 ‘2D Computer Graphics’ Class (Spring Semester), Department of Painting, Dankook University, Cheonan, Korea 2009 ‘Lack of Electricity in Media Arts’, 5th Media Art Forum ’Lost in Translation’, Panel Discussion, Seokyo Art Experiments Center, Seoul, Korea 2009 ‘Digital Culture & Interdisciplinary Society’, Kwangwoon University, Invited Lecture, Seoul, Korea 2009 ’Telerobotic Sound Improvisation’, The 2nd International Conference on Media Art and Information Aesthetics, Invited Presentation, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China 2009 ‘Media Studio: Imaging’ Class (Spring Semester), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA 2009 ‘Media Art as Creative Inspiratoin’, LG Electronics, Invited Lecture, LG R&D Center, Seoul, Korea 2009 ‘Media Art and Technology in 21st Century’, KAIST Graduate School of Culture- Technology, Invited Lecture, KAIST, Seoul, Korea 2009 ‘Being an Interdisciplinarian’, International Symposium on Generative Arts – Machine Dreams, Invited Lecture, Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea 2009 ‘Imagination and Creativity on Media Art’, Yonsei University, Invited Lecture, Media Art Research Center, Seoul, Korea 2008 ‘Media Studio: Imaging’ Class (Fall Semester), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA 2008 Artist Presentation, Department of Electronic Arts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA 2008 ‘Trends
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