Eunsu Kang
Title: Associate Professor
Dept/Program: New Media
Office: Folk Hall 162
Phone: 330–972–6947
Email: eskang@uakron.edu
Website: http://kangeunsu.com
Biography
Eunsu Kang is a media artist from Korea. She creates audiovisual spaces that interacts with people. Her interest in a body without a “normal” communicative method and its metamorphosis into a “singing” body has been embodied using interactive video, spatialized sound, site-specific installation and performing art idioms. Creating interdisciplinary projects, her signature has been seamless integration of art disciplines and innovative techniques. Her work has been invited to numerous places around the world including Japan, China, Switzerland, Sweden, France, Germany, Korea and the US. All nine of her solo shows, consisting of individual or collaborative projects, were invited or awarded. She has won the Korean National Grant for Arts three times. Her research has been presented at prestigious conferences such as ACM, ICMC and ISEA.
Kang earned her Ph.D. in Digital Arts and Experimental Media from DXARTS at the University of Washington. She received an MA in Media Arts and Technology from UCSB and an MFA from the Ewha Woman's University. Kang is currently an Assistant Professor of New Media Art at the University of Akron in Ohio, USA. She has brought the knowledge and techniques of interactive technology, digital art as well as creative interdisciplinary projects to the students at the University of Akron. She also started the New Media Minor with supports from several faculty members across the campus and has established three New Media courses.
Research
IAMAS AIR (Artist-In-Residency) Grant Funding, Artist presentation and Ogaki Biennale - IAMAS (Institution for Advanced Media Arts and Science), Ogaki, Japan, 2010
Shin’m | Solo exhibition at Gallery Kunst Doc, Seoul 2010
Shin’m performance | Collaborative project solo show at Wing Luke Asian Museum, Seattle, Washington, USA, 2009 and 2010
Shin’m: Reshaping the Perceived Body with Sound [Kang] | Presented at ISEA 2009 (International Symposium on Electronic Art), Belfast, UK, 2009
Interdisciplinary (Hybrid) art project funding award from Arts Council Korea, 2009
PuPaa: Butoh, Digital Media and Collaboration [Kang, Garcia-Snyder] | Presented at ISEA 2009 (International Symposium on Electronic Art), Belfast, UK, 2009
ThisAbility | Group exhibition at CAFA Museum, Beijing, China 2009
Eonni is Back | Group exhibition at Gyoenggi Museum of Modern Art (GMMA), Ansan, Korea 2008
Entanglement | Collaborative project solo show at Solo 911 Media Arts Center and SOIL gallery in Seattle, Washington, USA, 2008
Harmony of Collision | Group exhibition at ZKMax Gallery, Munich, Germany 2008
Entanglement [Pampin, Kang, Kollin] | Published and Presented at ISEA 2008 (International Symposium on Electronic Art), Singapore 2008
Dancing in the Digital Domain | Multimedia dance concert at Meany Studio Theatre, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA, 2008
Ultrasonic Sound Beams in Performance and Sound Art [Pampin, Kollin, Kang] | Published and Presented at ICMC 2007 (International Computer Music Conference), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2007
Shall We Smell? | Group exhibition at Coreana Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea, 2007
Imported Landscapes | Group show at Safe-T-Gallery, NYC, New York, USA 2007
Young Korean Artist 45: Interviews | Introduced as one of 45 Korean artists by curators, Jong-Ho Kim and Han-Seung Ryu in this book published by DaVinch Gift, Seoul, Korea, 2006
ACM Multimedia: Interactive Arts Program | Group show at Santa Barbara, California, USA, 2006
SeoNang | Collaborative project solo show at ArtspaceHue in Seoul, Korea & DXARTS studio in Seattle, Washington, USA, 2005
Korean single channel video artists | Introduced in this book published by Ilmin Cultural Foundation in Seoul, Korea, 2005
The Unknown Zone MOBILE | Solo exhibition at KTF Mobile Web 2003
The Unknown Zone II | Solo exhibition at Shinsegae Gallery, Inchon, Korea, 2003
The Unknown Zone_Invitation I: Aliens | Solo exhibition at Insa Art Space, Seoul, Korea 2002
The 6 th Winterthur International Short Film Festival | Winterthur, Switzerland, 2002
MEDIA_CITY SEOUL 2002 | Group exhibition at Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA), Seoul, Korea, 2002
Modern Korean Film Festival 2002 | Art Space A, Nagoya, Japan, 2002
Korean National Juried Project Fund for 2000 The Year of New Arts, 2000
Education
Ph.D. in Digital Arts and Experimental Media, DXARTS: University of Washington
M.A. in Media Arts and Technology, MAT:UCSB
M.F.A., Ewha Woman’s University, Seoul, Korea
B.F.A., Ewha Woman’s University, Seoul, Korea