4.4 Mixed
Tracks
Track 4
Tuesday, June 25, 2024 |
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM |
Plaza P8 |
Speaker
Dr Chanee Choi
Assistant Professor
University of New Mexico / Film and Digital Arts
P: Hangul Project Collective: A Study of Resilience and Identity through Intercultural Visual Dialogues between Korean and Global Influence
10:30 AM - 11:15 AMAbstract
The Hangul Project Collective is dedicated to the exploration of bilingual and intercultural experiences that engender experiential visual dialogues. Our mission involves the examination of underrepresented visual narratives from diverse intercultural perspectives, utilizing the Hangul alphabet, a typeface derived from Korean consonants and vowels, to create a translingual experience. This multidisciplinary visual research encompasses a wide spectrum of mediums, including typeface design, woodworking, digital art, 3D printing, and game performance. Each of these mediums offers intercultural experiences in a narrative-driven, tactile, interactive, and impressionistic manner. Our principal objective is to introduce innovative approaches to visual storytelling, thereby bridging the divide between traditional and contemporary mediums through the application of cutting-edge technology. In addition, we aim to reflect upon the global significance of Hangul, acknowledging its historical importance as a symbol of resilience during periods of resistance. In today's world, marked by the global prominence of Korean culture, including K-pop and Korean literature, the Hangul Project Collective seeks to showcase the profound nature of this spirit of resistance on a global scale or global exposure too. Furthermore, extending beyond the realm of Hangul, we aspire to contribute to the widespread recognition and support of languages and cultures of various nations facing the threat of extinction due to colonization or other historical factors. Our commitment lies in raising awareness and providing encouragement for these languages and cultures.
Biography
The Hangul Project, in collaboration with the Hangul Alphabet Collective, researches the world of bilingual experiences between English and Korean through experiential typographic forms and narratives. Hangul Alphabet, an English typeface crafted using Korean consonants and vowels, provides a translingual perspective. This multidisciplinary exploration of typography involves various methodologies and mediums, such as typeface design, ceramics, motion graphics, generative art, 3D printing, machine learning, and performance, with each medium conveying bilingual experiences in visual, interactive, tactile, and playable letterforms using the Hangul alphabet. This project has been showcased at various conferences and art exhibitions, including the College Art Association (CAA) Conference, Digitally Engaged Learning (DEL) Conference, Virtual Design Education Forum, and TypeCon.
Dr Jinsil Hwaryoung Seo
Associate professor
Texas A&M University
Co-presenter
Biography
Jinsil Hwaryoung Seo is an interactive artist/researcher focusing on aesthetics of interactive experience. Currently she is an associate professor in the School of Performance, Visualization & Fine Arts and a faculty fellow in the Institute for Applied Creativity and the Center for Health Systems & Design at Texas A&M University. Seo received a Ph.D. in Interactive Art and Technology from Simon Fraser University in Canada and an MFA in Computer Arts from School of Visual Arts (SVA). With interdisciplinary, interactive art practice, Seo investigates the intersection between body, nature and technology. Seo has been focusing on the aesthetic qualities of human experience, the relationships that emerge through interactions within artworks, the underlying beauty and pattern inherent in the nature. Seo has chosen interactive art for her creative practice and research in particular as it encourages immersive and embodied relationships within a work of art and with participants.
Mr Taekyeom Lee
Assistant Professor
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Co-presenter
Biography
Taekyeom is an award-winning multidisciplinary designer, educator, and maker. He is currently an Assistant professor of Graphic Design at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He received an MFA degree in Graphic Design from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research explores unconventional materials and alternative solutions to create tangible typography, graphics, and even designed objects using digital fabrication. He infused 3D printing into his research and has been experimenting with various methods and materials for tactile experiences. He presented through national and international conferences, including AIGA Design Conference, AIGA DEC (Design Educators Community), ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale), Design Incubation, DEL, ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Art), IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) VIS, TypeCon, Tipografia México, UCDA (University & College Designers Association) Education Summit, and NCECA (National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts). His work has been featured in various media. His research draws attention nationally and internationally. He exhibited his work and provided workshops and lectures across the country and abroad.
Mr Yangbin Park
Assistant Professor, The University of Memphis
Hangul Project Collective
Co-presenter
Biography
Yangbin Park is an artist and educator, known for his innovative print-based installation, print media, and papermaking. A graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a BFA in Studio Art (2011) and an MFA in Printmaking from Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University (2013), he is currently Assistant Professor of Art and Design at the University of Memphis. Park has also taught at Muhlenberg College, Chungnam National University, and Seoul Women’s University.
With a profound commitment to social engagement, Park navigates the confluence of identity, history, and culture. His interdisciplinary approach has led to recognition in premier venues like the Print Center, the International Print Center New York (now Print Center New York), Woodmere Museum, Fleisher Art Memorial, Janet Turner Print Museum, Asian Art Initiative, and Seoul Art Center.
Beyond exhibitions, his works are preserved in public collections such as the China Printmaking Museum, Contemporary Center for the Arts, and Vernon Public Art Gallery. Park’s accolades include being a finalist in the 94th Annual International Competition at the Print Center, receiving the Exhibition Merit Award at Janet Turner Print Museum, the Excellent Artist Award at Cyart Space, and the New Prints Mentorship Award at Print Center New York.
Park's current endeavors delve into innovative artistic practices that reflect a problematizing of the world and boundaries in the face of today’s political and economic power hierarchies, both physical and conceptual, investigating the form of the map and critical cartography to create novel meaning and seek to change the world through various modes of mapping that reveal maps as human documents.
Ms Yeohyun Ahn
Assistant professor
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Co-presenter
Biography
Yeohyun Ahn is an award-winning artist, designer, educator, and researcher who integrates creative coding, diversity and belongs to experiential graphic design and digital art. She leads several research projects: the interdisciplinary typography project TYPE+CODE Series; a multidisciplinary art and design project to bring awareness to Asian female faculty in America titled Social Homelessness on US campuses; Evolving Graphic Design, bringing academic diversity in European-centric and print-driven graphic design education, and Hangul Project, exploring intercultural visual dialogue between Korean and English. Ahn received the SEGD Design Educator Award in 2022, the Juror’s Choice Award at IDEAS in 2015, and the Graduate Fellowship from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2009. Her projects have been featured in the Washington Post, PRINT, New York Times Magazine, Letter Arts Review, Creator’s Project, Designboom.com, and more, and published in Graphic Design: The New Basics, Type on Screen, Data-Driven Graphic Design and Giving Type Meaning . Her works have been included in research papers and exhibitions from Leonardo, SIGGRAPH, ISEA, Atypi, AIGA, CAA, SEGD, and more. She is on committees for the CAA Annual Conference and the Academic Task Force of the Society of Experiential Graphic Design. She has worked as a freelance graphic artist for New York Times Magazine and taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Ahn is an Assistant Professor in the Art Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Professor Brian Yecies
Professor, Communication and Media
University of Wollongong
P: Empowering the Visual Arts via Blockchain Remix Innovations
11:15 AM - 12:00 PMAbstract
This panel contributes new scholarly research to current debates on intellectual property rights infringement in the digital sphere where visual art is created, bought, sold, and traded. Artists, scientists, technologists, policymakers, and scholars remain concerned about fakes, imitations, and the lack of trust and transparency in such global transactions. Through ongoing Australian Research Council Linkage Project work (LP210300009) – conducted in association with partnering change-makers such as the Australian Copyright Council, Copyright Agency, National Association for the Visual Arts, Australian Network for Art & Technology, and Common-wealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Data61, this panel shows how a range of digital artwork can be listed, securely traded, preserved, and remixed in previously unrecognized ways. Preliminary innovative blockchain solutions of the nature explored by our project team aim to authenticate, safeguard, and promote the work and livelihoods of creative industry practitioners and enterprises in cyber-secure ways. The hope is to challenge the rapid rise of fraud and unethical Artificial Intelligence-generated content in the wider copyright industries while encouraging the authorized remix of formerly inaccessible and future creative work.
Biography
Brian Yecies is a Professor in Communication and Media at the
University of Wollongong. He is a leading scholar on Asia’s creative industries with a strong record of leading big data research
teams and collaborating with and mentoring younger researchers.
Prof Jun Shen
University of Wollongong
Co-presenter
Biography
Jun Shen is a Professor in the School of Computing and Information Technology at the University of Wollongong. He has extensive experience in applying computational methods, including blockchain, machine intelligence-based recommendation systems, workflow management and agile methods.
Associate Professor Jo Law
University of Wollongong
Co-presenter
Biography
Jo Law researches on the intersection of art, media, and technology, and she has experience in touring object-based electronic artworks to exhibitions overseas. As the Australian Council Tokyo artist-in-residence, she pioneered the delivery of artworks as online digital artefacts and lithographic prints. She and Agnieszka Golda have long standing collaborations together, delivering a live-cast for the Virtually MakerFaire 2020 as part of Making Futures Industries, where they employ longitudinal studies to gauge change.
Dr Agnieszka Golda
Associate Professor
University of Wollongong
Co-presenter
Biography
Agnieszka Golda has expertise in the visual arts, exhibition curatorship, and working with museum collections. Her curatorial project, Ways to Water, brings together key artworks from Wollongong Art Gallery and UoW to highlight the evolving cultural relationships with coastal regions. It combines historical and contemporary artworks with indigenous artefacts, and a commissioned
Augmented Reality work brings to life the multifaceted stories of
NSW South Coast. As an artist, Golda has experience in touring
object-based textile and installation works internationally
Dr Grant Ellmers
University of Wollongong
Co-presenter
Biography
Grant Ellmers has expertise in design education, reflective practice, and photography exhibitions. His interdisciplinary research on design workflows and practice-led approaches has created new knowledge for the study of co-design processes. He has skills in graphic user interface design and web and mobile app design.
Session chair
Anastasia Tyurina
Senior Lecturer, Academic Lead Learning and Teaching (Design)
Queensland University of Technology
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