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- Ars Electronica X .ART Gallery
.art Domains (UK) Global Gallery Section, Online exhibition
EUNMI MIMI KIM
(b. 1988, KR)
Korea, London-based
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I define myself as an experimental-media-practitioner in a contemporary art context. I work at the intersections of visual arts performance, research, digitally-mediated experimentation, installation and sound art. I explore contemplative, technical and theoretical practice but above all things, my work usually research-driven under conceptually-led approaches ㅡespecially sensorial study including sensory perception, experience and its corresponding communication under my own scientific & medical interest yet emancipatory possibilities of its embodiment in an artistic way. What I’m particularly intrigued by is biology, neuroscience, cognitive psychology and prosthetic art. I’ve been trying to reflect my scientific and medical interests into my own form of art through various medium.
To specify this, my interests during my master period at the Royal College of Art were focused on embodied cognition, neural activity and sensory deprivation based on my physical and mental feature and personality-wise: Since I have hormone/stress-related disease called hyperthyroidism, hypersensitivity and meticulousness, I am easily be pushed into sensory overload. Based on this, I dig on transcendental consciousness and therapeutic experience. For instance, < Me-Time (4.0) > series are self-experiments, it aims to align my mind and body back into balance by reducing sensory stimuli through eccentric methods of sensory deprivation and isolation.
Under my hypersensitivity and the avalanche of runaway thoughts, I often encounter an ineffable cognition, perception, sense, thought and feeling in variable moments that are sometimes too elusive to define because not merely the volatility of associative feelings; but also the confined manifestation. Not all things can be decoded by the linguistic and semantic way: yet-to-be-verbalised/defined-senses. I’m eager for articulating who I am, what I think, ultimately, my sensory world by my own artistic language.
2016 - 2018
Royal College of Art, London, UK — MA Information Experience Design, Experimental Design
2008 - 2013
Hanyang University, South Korea — BA Fine Arts, Multimedia and Interactive Design
2025
‹ Love Peace Harmony Art & Living Festival › MOS (Musuem of Something), Chiangmai, Thailand
2024
‹ Reviving Nature › Performance & Exhibition, The Goodcery & Studio 88, Chiangmai, Thailand
2021
‹ unplugged: 직 · 간접 릴랙 - 세이숀 › SOLO exhibition, Gallery OF, Seoul, Korea
‹ Who Am I › Online Residency Preview, ARTHUB VR Gallery, Selected Artist.
‹ The Dreamers › The Holy Art, Hackney Downs Studio, Online virtual exhibition, Selected Artist.
2020
‹ ARS ELECTRONICA Festival 2020 › Ars Electronica X .ART Gallery, .art Domains (UK) Global Gallery Section, Online exhibition, Selected Artist.
‹ Anthology:Future Now › Aesthetica Art Prize Exhibition 2020 - 100 Contemporary Artist Edition.
2019
‹ Side Sleepers: 모로눕는 › Itta Space, Incheon, Korea
‹ Sunny Art Prize 2019 Exhibition › Sunny Art Centre, London, UK
‹ WAYS TO EXPERIENCE › 2019 KCCUK Open Call — KCCUK (Korean Cultural Centre UK)
‹ Insatiable Mind › SIAF (Salisbury International Arts Festival) — Wiltshire Creative, Salisbury Arts Centre, UK
‹ STRANGER THAN FICTION › Curated by LoosenArt, Millepiani Space, Rome, Italy
‹ THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOON › 4482, Oxo Tower Wharf, London
‹ Interior Futures › a multi-volume book project edited by Graeme Brooker, Harriet Harriss & Kevin Walker published by Crucible Press, Royal College of Art, London, UK
‹ YICCA 2018 › International Contest of Contemporary Art, Prsten Gallery, HDLU museum, Croatian Association of Fine Artists, Zagreb, Croatia
‹ Open / No Theme › Contemporary Art Gallery Online’s competition and exhibition, Photography & Digital art.
2018
‹ Hey, Siri, What am I doing? › Safe House 1, London supported by The Korean Women’s International Network UK
‹ RCA MA Final Show › West Work, London
‹ RCA Work-In-Progress Show › RCA Garden House, London
‹ Mundane Mantra › ‘First Thursdays’ Organised by White Chapel Gallery, St. John Church, Bethnal Green, London
2017
‹ Operating Manual For Living in the Worst-Case Scenario › Cabinet, New York, USA
2016
‹ Thinking Through Sound, Chill*matic Moment › Design Museum, London
2014
‹ VoyageTypography › Chiangmai, Thailand
2012
‹ DESIGN COMPLEXICON › Invited International Exhibition, Danwon Art Gallery, Korea.
‹ Design END & BEGIN › International Invitation Exhibition. KDDA (Korea Digital Artist Association), Korea Society of Digital Industry, Haenam Culture & Art Centre, Korea.
‹ Triangle > Hanyang University BA Fine Arts Degree Show — Digital Pavilion, Seoul, Korea
2025
Research, Meditation Centre Wat Umongsuanbuddhadham
Research, Old Medicine Hospital Thai Massage School Shivagakomarapaj
2024
‹ Reviving Nature: Pollution Alert › International Artists in Residence: Research, Artist Talks, Performance and Sound x Meditation Workshop with Oscar Sidoû Rydelius
2021 - 2022
ARTHUB, A-year-long Online Residency Programme
2021
Art & Technology Project Grant supported by Art Council Korea
Korea Artist Welfare Foundation, Creative Grant
Online Residency Programme, ARTHUB
Global Exceptional Talent (Tier 1) Visa, Art Council England, UK Government
15th ARTE LAGUNA PRIZE, Cultural Association MoCA (Modern Contemporary Art) , Artists in the Spotlight
Opening Magazine Interview, Crowd-Funded Publication, Interview
2020
Künstler, Künstlerin, Berlin-based art organisation, Interview
ARTUPON, Istanbul-based online art platform
bluebee Magazine, Volume 5 - Hyacinth, Selected Artist.
[ S P A C E ] Studio - Advice Bureau Grant
ARTJOBS, Artist of the month (MARCH) Selected Artist, Monthly competition for the on-line platform
Aesthetica Magazine, Anthology: Future Now Aesthetica Art Prize 2020 - 100 Contemporary Artist Edition.
2019
Sunny Art Prize 2019 sponsored by Art Council England, III Prize Winner
KCCUK Open Call 2019 Finalist & Performance
4482 Award with Itta Space Award Winner & Artist Talk
Insatiable Mind SIAF (Salisbury International Arts Festival), WILTSHIRE CREATIVE 2019, Finalist
13th edition of Art Prize Laguna 2019 First Selection - Performance
13th edition of Art Prize Laguna 2019 First Selection - Video art
London Korean Link
Salisbury Life Magazine
Elephant Magazine, Image of the Day
London Live TV Channel
Art Rabbit, Voices of Contemporary UK-based Artists from Korea
Create! Magazine, WINTER 2019 International Print issue - Curated section
2018
YICCA (International Contest of Contemporary Art) Finalist
Artist Talk Korean Cultural Centre UK (KCCUK), London
London Korean Link, TOP3 of Korean artist exhibitions of 2018
Murze Magazine, Minimalist Project, Interview
London Korean Link, Young Korean artists based in London
2017
CHS (Critical History Studies) MA Dissertation @ Royal College of Art awarded as a Distinction
2016
USA, RISD (Rhode Island School of Design), MFA Fellowship & Assistantship
USA, NYU TISCH(Tisch School of the Arts Interactive Telecommunications, New York University MA Scholarship
2013
Volunteer, Missionaries of Charity, Mother Teresa House, Kolkata, India
2011
Junior Designer, Tag-It Magazine Company, Korea
2010
Vice Course Rep, Hanyang University, Korea
2009
Multimedia Design Group, Hanyang University, Korea
2008 - 2010
Student Union — Hanyang University, Korea
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