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Hyowon Shim
Curriculum Vitae
Statement
I am a media studies researcher and experimental writer based in Seoul, Korea, with a doctorate in Comparative Literature, working across post-anthropocentrism and media ecology. My practice lies at the intersection of the conceptual and the sensorial, where writing becomes a medium for weaving embodied thought and speculative resonance.
My work engages with transdisciplinary inquiry and corporeal attention as core research methods, drawing from both contemporary media studies and the lived textures of situated East Asian sensibilities.
My work engages with transdisciplinary inquiry and corporeal attention as core research methods, drawing from both contemporary media studies and the lived textures of situated East Asian sensibilities.
Affiliation
Research Professor, Institute of Media Arts
Lecturer
Research Grants & Honors
Ethics of Hands in Contemporary Art Practice
The Anthropocene and Visuality: Theories and Practices of Virtual Reality
New Media Materialism of Rare Earths and E-waste
Journal Articles
Books
Author
"Deep Matter: Gazing into the Abyss" in Minibus, Oort Cloud, Fluttering Pages
"Becoming Earthworms, making the Soft Architecture" in Sseulm vol.19
"Our Sentiment for Nature and Future" in Ecology in Latent Space: Disasters, Generative Neural Networks, and the Non-Futures
"Media History / History of Media Theory" in Intersection Vol 2: The life of Materials
Translation
Jucan, Ioana B., Jussi Parikka, and Rebecca Schneider, Remain
Parikka, Jussi. Geology of Media
Higonnet, Margaret R. "Comparative Literature on the Feminist Edge" in Bernheimer Report
Demos, T.J. "Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today" in Dear Amazon: On Anthropocene
Demos, T.J. "Blackout: The Necropolitics of Extraction" and "Worlds to Come" in What Do Museums Change?: Art and Democracy
Shanken, Edward A. "Deus ex Poiesis" and Parikka, Jussi. "Thousands of Tiny Futures" in Embracing the Parallel Worlds
Exhibitions & Practice-Based Works
"Dental Critics" — Group Exhibition
"Text Pairing" — Group Exhibition
2024 Unlimited Edition — Seoul Art Book Fair
"Text Movement: A Field/Shelf of Flowing Knowledge"
Selected Presentations
Conferences
The Virtual World Fascinated by Plants
Our Belief in Bodies Experiencing the Virtual World
Chronophotography and Its Transformation of Reality
Forums & Invited Seminars
Ethics of Hands: Recycling and Reconstruction in Contemporary Art Practices
Book Talk with the Translator: Jussi Parikka, Geology of Media
Post-Anthropocentrism — Technical Media — Body Media
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