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Degrees
- Diplom (sehr gut bestanden) in Art and Media, Universität der Künste Berlin, DE, 2023
- Vilém Flusser Summer School in Media culture, Philosophy, and Aesthetics, DE/FR, 2022
- B.M. in Music Composition, Ewha W. University, KR, 2013
- B.A. in Philosophy, Ewha W. University, KR, 2013
Fellowships
- Gaststudentin, Lucerne Festival Academy, Composition, Conductor Sir. Simon Rattle (Berliner Philharmoniker), As a private disciple of the resident composer Unsuk Chin, CH, 2014
- Tongyeong International Music Festival Academy, Composition, Salvatore Sciarrino, KR, 2014
- Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Composition Masterclass, Prof. Johannes Schöllhorn (Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln), Pascal Dusapin (Collège de France), Prof. Tristan Murail (Columbia University in NY), Prof. York Höller (Berliner Akademie der Künste), and Unsuk Chin (SPO) KR, 2010-2014
- Tongyeong International Music Festival Academy, Composition, Unsuk Chin, KR, 2011
Academic Positions
- Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (Scientific Assistant), Universität der Künste Berlin, Einstein Center Digital Future, Digital Education, Human-Machine Peer Learning (HMPL), Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED), Nov. 2023-Jul. 2024
- Zulassungskommission (Admission Committee), Universität der Künste Berlin, Kunst und Medien, stellvertretendes, 2022-2023
- Studentische Hilfskraft (Research Tutor), Universität der Künste Berlin, Vilém Flusser Archive, 2021-2023
Academic Teaching Experience
- I and You, Universität der Künste Berlin, Medienhaus, Aula, Diplom/Master Students with Prof. Dr. Daniel D. Hromada, Studium Generale, Kulturwissenschaft (14 hours), 2024 Summer Semester
- Geste, Gestaltung, und Gestimmtheit - Physical Metaphysics for Artists, Universität der Künste Berlin, Medienhaus, Vilém Flusser Archive, Diplom/Master students (32 hours), 2023/24 Winter Semester
- Into the “into the Universe of Technical Image”, Universität der Künste Berlin, Medienhaus, Vilém Flusser Archive, Diplom/Master students (32 hours), 2022/23 Winter Semester
- How to Get Along with Time - Philosophy in Media Art, Universität der Künste Berlin, Medienhaus, Vilém Flusser Archive, Seminar for Diplom students (32 hours), 2022 Summer Semester
Artistic Research Presentations
- 공백空白: Composition of rest III, Duo of composition for automate piano and improvisation for a human performer, Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf, Institut für Musik und Medien, DE, 2024
- 공백空白: Composition of rest, AI generated Muisk-Tanz Theater, CTM/Transmediale festival, Vorspiel Opening, Silent Green, Berlin, DE (2023), ARS ELECTRONICA, Splace, Linz, AT (2022) 2022
- A History of Defiance: 반항의 역사, AI generated Muisk-Tanz Theater, CTM/Transmediale festival, Vorspiel, Gallery, UdK Medienhaus, Berlin, DE, 2022
- Beyond the Past to the Present as an Independent Woman. : Dance Theater Workshop, 4th DIS-TANZ-SOLO, Somatic Emotion, Cognition, and Their Relationship with Body Movement - Focused on Migrant Women, Korea Verband, Dachverband Tanz Deutschland, Berlin, DE, 2022
- Shouting Through the Body Series - Therapeutic Movement, Body Cognition Theory-Practice Workshops, Korea Verband, Metoo Asians, Overseas Koreans Foundation, DE, 2021-2022
- Bouncing Droplet, Physical-computational generated image-sound translation experimental piece, Artist Homes, Berlin, DE, 2021
- Naive Poem 2, Dance and generative AV, UdK Medienhaus, Aula, Berlin, DE, 2021
- Naive Poem, Gayageum, generative AV, STATE studio, Berlin, DE, 2021
- LASS STECKEN #1, Dance and Water painting Improvisation, Martina Janssen, Zihern Lee, Katja Häberlein, Gosia Gajdemska, KK7, Berlin, DE, 2018
- Frank Fragments, Duo for 2 Violins, Sejong Center for the Performing Arts Chamber hall, Essenz Music Festival, Seoul, KO, 2014
- Analecta II : Le Plaisir du Texte, Trio for free combined instruments, Lamella #1 Feminine Jouissance (Magazine, Score Printed), 2012
- Peep, Quintet for Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Piano, Konzerthaus Berlin Werner Otto Saal, Berlin, DE (2014), Kim Young Ui Hall, Seoul, KO (2013), Tongyeong Cultural centre, Tongyeong International Music Festival, Tongyeong, KO (2011), 2010
- Analecta I: Gedanken ohne Inhalt sind leer, Anschauungen ohne Begriffe sind blind., Quartet for Clarinet, Cello, 2 Percussions, Ewha W. University recital hall, Seoul, KO, 2010
- 늙은사람, from a poem of Ki Hyung-Do, Trio for Piano, Clarinet, Percussion, Ewha W. University recital hall, Seoul, KO, 2009
Lecture-Performance Presentations
- Geste, Gestaltung, und Gestimmtheit, as Director, Supervisor, Keyboard improvisation, (Participants: Benny Lichtner, Daeun Joo, Inkyung Jeong, Luisa Ungar, Ruben Bass, Stratos Bichakis), CTM/Transmediale festival, Vorspiel, UdK Medienhaus, Aula, Berlin, DE, 2023
- 매생이 전복죽 (Every life is ruined), Music, Generative art, AI art, Text, Dramaturge, Narration, Vilém Flusser Archive, Berlin, DE, 2023
- Into the “Into the Universe of Technical Image”, as Director, Supervisor, (Participants: Augusto Gerardi, Daeun Joo, Fang Tsai, Jesse Torres, Jiawen Wang, Jien Park, Leon Eckard, Selenay Kiray, Yujin Song), CTM/Transmediale festival, Vorspiel, UdK Medienhaus, Aula, Berlin, DE, 2023
- How to Get Along with Time, as Director, Supervisor, Generative artist, (Participants: Fang Tsai, Jiawen Wang, Leon Eckard, Cecilia Xuetong Feng), UdK Medienhaus, Aula, Berlin, DE, 2022
Publications
- “Bad Education is Worse Than No Education”: Harnessing Technology to Shape Appropriate Habits in Reading Acquisition, EDULEARN24 Proceedings, 7925-7931p, ISSN: 2340-1117, ISBN: 978-84-09-62938-1, doi: 10.21125/edulearn.2024.1862, 2024
- Towards Technosophy, Ten days - a Dialogue Between a Guard, a Boxer, a Musician, a Teacher, and a Man. Fachhochschule Potsdam press, 47-56p, ISBN: 978-3-947796-10-6, https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-fhpotsdam/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2955, 2023
- 기억을 쓰다 2013 실내악 작품 모음집 (Writing Memories 2013 Collection of Chamber Music Works), 현대문화 (Contemporary Culture Group), ISBN: 9791185167046, 2013
Presentations, Talks, Panels, Chairing
- 16th annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies EDULEARN24, Oral Presentation, Session Chair in “AI in Language Education”, Palau de Congressos de Palma, Palma, ES, 2024
- 0. Berliner Symposium über Leseförderung im Zeitalter der Künstlichen Intelligenz, Leading Workshop “Track 3: Kognitive, ethische und philosophische Aspekte”, Einstein Center Digital Future, The Robert-Koch-Forum, Berlin, DE, 2024
- Einstein Center Digital Future Soirée, Poster Presentation ‘Why Personal Primer?’, Einstein Center Digital Future, The Robert-Koch-Forum, Berlin, DE, 2024
- How To Make Your Own Digital Primer, Presentation “AI Artefact for Language Learning”, Online Educa Berlin, with Prof. Dr. Daniel Hromada, Berlin, DE, 2023
- LaborAtelier II - 20 Jahre Universität der Künste Berlin, Panel discussion "Strange Strings – Improvisation als Forschung” with Prof. Dr. George W. Bertram, Prof. Dr. Vera Bühlmann, Prof. Dr. phil. Florian Dombois, George E. Lewis, Arlette-Louise Ndakoze, Prof. Avinoam Shalev. On behalf of Prof. Dr. phil. Florian Dombois, DE, 2022
- 9th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & x, Future Voices - Zukunftsmusik, Presentation, the Future Voices project as a part of S4NTP (Society for Non-Trivial Pursuits collective), Online, 2021
- Composer's talk, Essenz Music Festival, Sejong Center for the Performing Arts, Chamber hall, Seoul, KR, 2015
Solo Invited Talks
- Embodied Time: Computation, Gesture, and Perception, Workshop Talk, Faculty of Computer and Information Science: Visual Computing, Universität Konstanz, Konstanz, DE, 2025
- Creativity, Sustainability, and AI: What Is Harmony in the Contemporary Environment?, Keynote Talk, Berlin School of Business and Innovation, Berlin, DE, 2025
- Flusserian dialogues Vilém Flusser Archive + Towards Technosophy Book Talk, Invited Talk, Goethe Institute Ankara, Ankara, TR, 2023
- The Gestured World: You and Technology, Workshop, Bilkent University, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture (FADA), Ankara, TR, 2023
- Hidden Women in History, Online Workshops, Metoo Asians, Overseas Koreans Foundation, DE, 2021
Organising Academic Events
- 0. Berliner Symposium über Leseförderung im Zeitalter der Künstlichen Intelligenz, Co-Organiser with Prof. Dr. Daniel D. Hromada, Einstein Center Digital Future, The Robert-Koch-Forum, Berlin, DE, 2024
- Flusser: From Science Fiction to Fictional Science and Technoimagination, Co-Organiser with Dr. Anita Jóri, UdK Medienhaus, Aula, Berlin, DE, 2023
- Vilém Flusser and Arts Now - panel discussion with Rafael Alonso, Alice Bucknell, Victoria Keddie and Hana Yoo, Co-Organiser and moderator with Dr. Anita Jóri, UdK Medienhaus, Aula, Berlin, DE, 2023
- A joint book presentation with Daniel Irrgang and Francesco Restuccia, Co-Organiser with Dr. Anita Jóri, UdK Medienhaus, Aula, Berlin, DE, 2022
- "A human is not a tree" - panel discussion on Vilém Flusser's Freedom of the Migrant with Michael Hanke, Sabine Zahn and Christopher Dell, Co-Organiser with Dr. Anita Jóri, UdK Medienhaus, Aula, Berlin, DE, 2022
Academic Experimental Group Projects
- Six Strings, https://sixstrings.cargo.site/, the Society for Non-Trivial Pursuits (S4NTP), 2022
- Future Voices/Zukunftsmusik, https://futurevoices.radio/about, the Society for Non-Trivial Pursuits (S4NTP), 2020
Awards, Grants, Selections
- Vilém Flusser Summer School Scholarship, DAAD, 2022
- Musikfonds Artistic Research Grant FEB-II, 2022
- 4th DIS-TANZ-SOLO Dachverbandtanz Artistic Research Grant, 2022
- Artist in residence in Vilém Flusser Archive, 2021/22
- GVL Artistic Research Grant, 2021
- Musikfonds Förderrunde 02-2021, 2021
- Koreanisches Kulturzentrum Excellence Award, 2021
- Artist Homes Residence Artist, 2020
- Tongyeong International Music Festival Academy Scholarship, 2014
- Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra Orchestral Reading Session selected, 2013
- Chosun Ilbo Rookie Concerts nominated, 2012
- Tongyeong International Music Festival Academy Excellence Piece, 2011
Related Certification
- 1st tier Psychological Anger Management Counsellor, 2018-001666, Issuing authority: Korea Association of Vocational Education, Ministry of Health and Welfare
Languages
- Korean, Native speaker
- English, EF SET English Certificate (C2 Proficient), 2023
- German, B2 Certification from Universität der Künste Berlin (completed C1 course), 2022
- Japanese, Intermediate
- French, Basic
- Italian, Basic
Professional Experience outside Academia
- Advisor for AI Applications in Artwork, 2024 ARTS KOREA LAB SUPER TEST BED, Mother: Digital Umbilical Cord Service (mother.Mother2), and other projects, 2024-
- Philosophical and Aesthetics Advisor for Professional Artists and Musicians, 2020-
- Dancer of Berlin Korean Dance Project, and other projects, 2019-2023
- Private Teacher and Educational Consultant, mentoring students and supervising their writing across institutions such as Dulwich College Seoul, North London Collegiate School Jeju, Ewha W. University, Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber, and Yale University, covering IB, ABRSM, and undergraduate levels, 2008-2015
- Literary Critic 2012
- Executive Assistant, Intern, ABRSM (Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music) Korea, 2008-2009
Social Activities
- Financial Auditor, Metoo Asians e.V., 2023-2025
- Representative Director, Co-founder, Metoo Asians e.V., 2020-2022
- Member, Society for Non-Trivial Pursuits (S4NTP)
- Member, Lacanian Affinities Berlin (laLAB)
- Member, Künstlerhilfe e.V.
- Member, Gesellschaft für künstlerische Forschung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Technical Skills
- Body: Ballet, Kung-fu Wushu (Black Belt, 2nd Dan), Korean Classical Dance, Meditation, Yoga
- Musical Instruments: Cello, Flute, Gayageum, Harp, Piano
- Musical Transcribing Software: Finale, Sibelius
- Office Software: Adobe Creative Cloud, Canva, Google Workspace, Microsoft Office, Miro, Wordpress, Overleaf
- Programming & Production: Arduino, JavaScript, Logic Pro, MaxMSP, Processing, Python, SuperCollider, TouchDesigner