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