A Memoir of Touch:
a speculative from the perspective of a sentient microbe living on the glowing surface of a touchscreen. Rescuing bacteria
from being recklessly named Engel barterium
Collective publication project ‘TECHNOPOLITICS’ organized and directed by Baltan Laboratory, Eindhoven (NL).
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A Memoir of Touch
Feb.2025.
Writing
: Fiction
Writing
: Fiction
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The guide to ruin Floating Cities
MA thesis
the Critical Inquiry Lab 2023-2024
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The Guide to Ruin Floating Cities
APR.2024.
Writing
: Thesis
Writing
: Thesis
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Unspoken in the Resilient World
MA design project
the Critical Inquiry Lab 2023-2024
Exhibited at Graduation Show 2024 Design Academy Eindhoven
@Microstad
Dutch Desgin Week 2024
Read the script and glossary (open in new tap)
OCT.2024.
Project
Project
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Design and Parenting
The essay series ‘Design and parenting: the products that shape parenting, childcare, and motherhood’ is published on Delft Mama Blog every few months.
Read (open in new tap) >
1. My Sleepless Postpartum Nights with Breast Pumps
2. Holding On and Letting Go: Baby Swings
3. Virtual Insanity: Parental Symbiosis with Digital Connectivity
OCT.2022.
-Present
Writing
: Essay
-Present
Writing
: Essay
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Water Gardener: Speculative Performance about Floating Islands
The co-creation project was proceeded during the workshop ‘Moving Shorelines and Floating Worlds: Re-imagining Tomorrow’s Water Climate’ hosted by RASL(Rotterdam Art and Science Lab)
See the Project Archive > Water Gardener
Water Gardener (ISSUU: open in new tap)
Jun.2022.
Design Workshop
Design Workshop
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Thinking Beyond Papanek
Organizing the talk ‘Thinking Beyond Papanek - Decolonizing Design Education: What’s on now and next’ as a side program of the exhibition ‘Victor Papanek: The Politics of Design’ at Design Museum Den Bosch
See the summary of the event (in Dutch)
Beyond Papanek: Decolonizing Design Education
Watch the Talk (Duration: 1:41:43) >
Thinking Beyond Papanek: Decolonizing Design Education: What's on now and next?
Mar.2021.
Design Education
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Design Education
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Untitled Future: The Story of Evoluon
“When people walked into the body of the creature, rummaged around every part of its innards, and indulged in the taste of the future, the creature couldn’t be prouder of itself than that.”
Read the Fiction >
Untitled Future: The Story of Evoluon (2,310 words, 9 minute read)
FEB.2021.
Writing
: Fiction
Writing
: Fiction
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The Vessel of Randomness
“This is a set of data that is almost close to the state of nature, which means its level of randomness is perfect. So, we can reasonably expect them to replace the obsolete pseudo-random numbers, with the hope that they could be the key for solving the Many-body problem.”
Read the Fiction >
The Vessel of Randomness
(4,206 words, 15 minute read)
MAR.2021.
Writing
: Fiction
Writing
: Fiction
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The Critical Inquirer #2: Trap, Trap, Trap
Three voices (Maxime Benvenuto, Janfer Chung, Yeseul Kim) seek the meaning of traps in our culture from the ontological manner to the intimate (or specious) status.
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Trap, Trap, Trap:
Preface, The ontological status of traps
NOV.2020.
Publication
Publication
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Selected for PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games Art Poster
Performance art 'The Extreme Landscape' was Selected for Art Posters for the 2018 Winter Olympics and archived in the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Exhibition >
평창동계올림픽 예술포스터전, 국립현대미술관, 서울
Read the article >
The art posters for PyeongChang 2018
(Olympic website, open in new tap)
예술 포스터로 전 세계서 만나는 평창올림픽 (KBS, open in new tap)
FEB.2018.
Award
Award
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The Extreme Landscape
The bodily drawing performance creating a landscape.
Exhibitions (featured) >
Art Meet Spirit, The Korean Cultural Center, Washington D.C., U.S., 2017.
The Extreme Landscape: how it’s made, Ujung Art Center, 2018.
2015.
- 2018.
Performance
- 2018.
Performance
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BAR 25: Bio-Makers Movement
With Artist Duruphil, BAR 25: Bio-Makers Movement was initiated. We developed and conducted the research, DIY projects, seminars, and exhibition.
See the project archive (open in new tap) >
: A one-year journey of BAR 25
Read the publication > The Bio Recipe : the guides for crafting bio-materials and DIY apparatus.
This project was funded by Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture
MAR.2017.
- FEB.2018.
Movement
- FEB.2018.
Movement
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Exhibition: Techné Paranoia
The exhibition was directed and organized by Yeseul Kim, Duruphil, as a part of the project ‘BAR 25: Bio-Makers Movement.’
Read the Interview (in Korean) >
NOV.2017.
Exhibition
Exhibition
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Designing Ephemeral User Interface Using Soap Foam
The research explored the adaptability of a natural material in the realm of Tangible User Interfaces and developed the interactive ephemeral interface with soap foam.
MSc. Thesis
Department of Industrial Design,
Wonder Lab (Former Design Media Lab)
KAIST (Daejeon, KR)
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Featured in Elementare Ekstasen. Sondierungen der Technosphäre (2024, Léa Perraudin), published by the research cluster “Matters of Activity” at Humboldt university in Berlin (DE).
Open access (open in new tap) > Elementare Ekstasen. Sondierungen der Technosphäre
Feb.2015.
Graduation Project
Graduation Project