Presenters

“Augmented and Socialized: Abstracting Interactions Between Bodies and Phones”

Tyler Calkin is an interdisciplinary artist and educator who investigates the effects of digital technology on physiological and social experience. He received his MFA in Art and Integrated Media from the California Institute of the Arts, and his work has been exhibited and performed in art and educational institutions around the world, including in Berlin, London, Beijing, Guadalajara, Mexico, Gimpo, South Korea, New York City, and Los Angeles. Calkin is the head of Digital Media at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Jonas Kasper Jensen is a visual artist based in Copenhagen. He studied at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen with Prof. Carsten Juhl and at Stadelschule, Frankfurt with Prof. Willem de Rooij. Jensen is the founding member of the new media school at Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek called FELT.
Jensen has been teaching at Trondheim Academy of fine art (2015), Chung-Ang University in Seoul (2016), Rat School of art in Seoul (2016), Krabbesholm H©ªjskole (2015-2016 and 2018) and Huset for kunst og design Holstebro (2016 – 2017). Jensen write on digitization of art for the online blockchain magazine the Tokenizer, exhibits digital work as Iona Apples and is the founding member of the artist collective Lehman Brothers.

“Fractured Kinship, Flattened Space”

Sarah Lasley is a filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. She received her MFA from Yale School of Art and her BFA from University of Louisville. Her film and video work has exhibited internationally at galleries and film festivals, most recently at National Chiao Tung University in Hsinchu, Taiwan and Leslie Hellar Workspace in New York City. For over a decade, Sarah taught video and animation at Yale University, Vassar College, and the Pratt Institute before being appointed to Assistant Professor of New Media at University of Texas San Antonio. She has worked professionally as a motion graphics artist for Martha Stewart Omnimedia and created the title animation for Todd Haynes¡¯s Academy Award Nominated film ¡°Carol¡±. In 2012, she joined Amanda Palmer¡¯s international ¡°Theatre is Evil¡± tour as a videographer and projection designer. Her visual effects credits include work for Panda Bear and MGMT. She has also worked extensively in theatre as a video and projection designer/engineer, notably at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, Harlem Stage, and Ars Nova in New York City. Her work is currently on view in Louisville as a part of the Kentucky Triennial at the KMAC Museum.

“Who moves my body?”

Ajin Lee has received MFA and MA Design in Seoul and London. She has been working on artworks since her solo exhibition in 2018 to focus on creative expressions with performance and installation. She is interested in the meaning of being as an individual in a social community. She shows the inner experience of the individual through artworks, but she looks at the other side of the surrounding such as social system and then explore the causes and solutions of the inner conflict formed by it. Since 2019, She has worked in Turkey and India to carry out Nomadic art projects.

Shony Rivnay is an interdisciplinary Israeli-American artist based in Tel Aviv, Israel. He works in various media including painting, sculpture, video, installation, and performance. He has exhibited solo shows in numerous locations around the globe including SPRING/BREAK Art Fair (NYC), TEMP Art Space (NYC), Bosi Contemporary (NYC), Hamburger Bannhoff Museum Campus (Berlin), and Tavi Dresdner Gallery (TLV), and has participated in group shows in venues such as Youkobo Art Space (Tokyo), Artilife for The World Gallery (Venice, IT), CICA Museum (South Korea), and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (Tel Aviv), among others. Rivnay has participated at the prestigious I-Park Residency (USA, 2016), and HomeBase Residency (Germany, 2012). Recent solo shows include “How Things Work” at Nulubaz Cooperative Art Space, Tel Aviv (2018), curated by Nogah Davidson; “Unfolding” at The Yard — Columbus Circle, NYC (2019), curated by Sarah Crown; “Nature of Wonder” at ZAZ10TS, Times Square, NYC (2019), Curated by Tzili Charney; and upcoming solo shows include Beit Haomanim, Tel Aviv (2019), curated by Arie Berkowiz; and at the Jewish Federation, Cleveland Ohio (2019), curated by Erica Hartman-Horvitz. Rivnay’s works are in private and public collections worldwide. He holds a BFA from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel.

“Being: Exploring Emplacement and Identity”

Hazel Choo is a photographer based in Los Angeles, California. Hazel received a Bachelor’s degree in Art with a specialization in Photography from UCLA. She has advanced training in a range of studio art genres with photography as her primary focus. Over time, Hazel has seen growth in her understanding of and approach to photography as she pursued educational and professional opportunities in South Korea, the US, England, and other countries abroad. Her work explores the following ideas and topics: the emotional and political tensions between North and South Korea, her family experience with gendercide (the systematic killing of unborn female infants), her immigrant experience in the USA, and explorations of both her contemporary identity and traditional Korean female identity. Her photography, installation and mixed media works have been exhibited at New Wight Gallery (Los Angeles), Brea Gallery (Brea), CICA Museum (Gimpo, Korea) and artefact (Paris, France), with juried exhibitions selected by curators from The Los Angeles County Museum of Art and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

“The Matter of Time: Being and Time”

Jay (Jae Won) Jung is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York. She has earned a Bachelor of Laws Degree at Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea. After receiving her degree, she moved to New York City to begin her art career and explore the emotional and philosophical tensions of abstract painting, sculptures, installation, and experimental filmmaking, photography. Her years of experience and diverse career background have influenced her deep engagement related to the investigation of the property of matter, earth materials with spatiotemporal philosophy, existentialism, and psychology. In addition to that, currently, she is exploring spatiotemporal abstract painting, sculpture, and installation in MFA Fine Arts at School of Visual Arts, New York.

Jay (Jae Won) Jung has been exhibited Solo Exhibition at ARTIFACT Gallery, Lower East Side in Manhattan, New York. and her upcoming Solo Exhibition will be shown at CICA Museum, Gim-Po, Korea. And, she has been expected to have upcoming Group Exhibition at Van Der Plas Gallery, Lower East Side in Manhattan, New York. Also, she has screening at the Modern Art Museum, Firenze, Italy, Anthology film archives, New York. Rome University of Fine Arts (RUFA), Rome, Italy, Art/New York Theatre, New York, Saban Theatre, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, CA, Gregory Hall Theater, Urbana Champaign, Illinois(UIUC), Leviit Theater, Philadelphia.

“The Paradox of the Non-Space (Humanity in Homogenous Zones)”

Bridget Moreen Leslie is an Australian artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Bridget creates installations with a focus on video, sound, and light. Bridget is interested in collapsing spatial and psychological barriers between class, architecture, noise, location, and repetitious body language. She received her BFA from Sydney University’s, Sydney College of the Arts in 2015 and received her MFA Fine Arts with Honors from Parsons School of Design, 2017. Bridget has written book reviews for Artbook/ D.A.P, and FineArtGlobe and worked at galleries and museums across New York as well as assisting various artists. She was the publicity director for Art in Odd Places: Body 2018, curated by Katya Grokhovsky, which presented projects by women, female identifying, and non-binary artists along 14th Street. She will be releasing a book in 2020 that explores the paradoxical nature of Non-Spaces through a series of essays and art projects on subjects such as Non-Wealth , Ai celebrities, Ideological State Apparatuses, and the developing world. Other projects include the Non-Space Network an ongoing, online, archive of audience submitted and personal photos taken across the globe (from post-Maria, Puerto Rico to the highest ATM found at the China-Pakistan border). Her work has been shown internationally at Sydney, Australia at Brand-X, Ded-Space gallery, the Queen’s Museum in New York, the National Humanities Center in North Carolina, IAO in Oklahoma City, to the CICA Museum in South Korea. She was a resident at the Hollows, Brooklyn and has had work published in Vellum Magazine, EMERGENCY INDEX and other international publications.

“Horizontal Sowing (aperform)”

Debbie Y.J. Lin (dbyj) is a Chinese Canadian Californian interdisciplinary artist interested in site specific work focused in the architecture of human sound, interpersonal gestures and languages. She began playing classical piano at four and having performed as a vocalist at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Hollywood Bowl, and Carnegie Hall, she explores the reconciliation of performative and reflective time-based works, often experimenting with a hybrid of sound, found, upcycled, and video to transcribe the transience of thought, memory and emotion through the lens of Faith and emerging technology. She graduated cum laude from UCLA with a B.A in Music Education, summa cum laude from Berklee College of Music with a M.M in Music Production and Technology and received her M.A. in Media Studies from The New School of Public Engagement in New York. Making her European museum debut with the”cluttermonster” installation at Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe and Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia Spain, she followed up with her three movement composition during Berlin Art week 2017 and Loop Barcelona in 2018. Debbie’s works have either been shown and/or privately collected in the US, UK, Canada, South Korea, China, Germany, Spain, Israel, Sweden and Norway; she is currently based in Los Angeles and New York, consulting in creative expressions and producing a virtual pop up micro art residency: gather.art.

Rhea In is a figurative painter whose work expresses her doubts, her pleasant and unpleasant feelings, the memories of places and people. She graduated from an art high school in Toronto and moved to the United States in 2007. She received a BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago. in 2011 and graduated from the Pratt Institute in 2017. She is currently living and working in Brooklyn. She has won the first prize in Illinois Kew Sun Chai First Art Prize in 2011 and her work has been exhibited internationally including Chicago, New York, and Korea.

“Stories Become Data: Interactive Participatory Story Drawing Event”

MiHyun Kim is an Assistant Professor of Communication Design at Texas State University. Her main research agenda focuses on screen-based interactive storytelling, combining design, data visualization and human-centered UI/UX design. MiHyun has directed a wide range of projects, partnering with non-profit organizations, including Habitat for Humanity (Dallas), the City of Austin, the City of San Marcos, Amala Foundation, and Opportunity Village Eugene (Oregon). Her interdisciplinary project Placed: Historical Digital Platform to Collectively Archive Our History with Augmented Reality (AR) was selected for the shortlist at the 2020 Interactive Design Awards. Her Data Visualization course projects for the City of Austin were presented at the SXSW Interactive Festival in 2019. MiHyun’s research projects have been awarded recognition from numerous national and international design organizations and competitions including AIAP Woman in Design Awards, European Design Awards, Horizon Interactive Awards, International Council of Design (ico-d), Cumulus, AIGA Design Educator Community, UCDA Design Competition, UCDA Design Education Summit, and eyeO Festival.

“Conglomerates”

Nicole Lenzi’s work questions what a drawing is and its link to thinking. She takes a multi-media approach to expand the concept of drawing that include installations, photography, and works on paper. Her work has been exhibited in numerous galleries, museums, and non-profit art spaces including District of Columbia Arts Center, The Delaware Contemporary, The Delaware Art Museum, Vox Populi, VisArts, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, The Lodge Gallery, and Northern Illinois University Art Museum. Lenzi has had residencies at Soaring Gardens, the Villa Montalvo, and the Vermont Studio Center. She has a B.F.A from Carnegie Mellon University and an M.F.A from the Maryland Institute College of Art.  Her blog, Expanded, presents a range of contemporary drawing practices from artists around the world. Lenzi is based in Baltimore, MD.

“Beyond Boundaries in 21st Century Arts”

Dr. Park-Huntington earned her Ph.D. at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond in 2010. She recently co-edited the book, Ceramics of Ancient America: Multidisciplinary Approaches, which included her essay on “Emblems of Cultural Identity in Early Andean Art: Engraved Head Motifs on Cupisnique Ceramics.” Her 2012 book, Mirrors of Clay: Reflection of Ancient Andean Life in Ceramics from the Sam Olden Collection, was published by University Press of Mississippi. She has also written on “Teaching Art History to STEM,” a chapter to be included in the forthcoming volume, Redefining Liberal Arts Education in the 21st century.

“Screen Breach”

Videokaffe explores the intersection of handcraft and modern technology through exhibitions, art residencies and connecting artist studios worldwide. The members show their individual works and together build workspaces / labs onsite, where they work collaboratively and create artwork. During the exhibitions, Videokaffe invites the audience to enter the workspace to witness, learn about, and participate in the art making process. Between exhibitions, Videokaffe members meet regularly online by connecting their studios via webcams and video projectors. Through this process, the members work together as if they are sharing the same space. Videokaffe seeks to build bridges among cultures and to collaborate through the universal language of art.