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Min young Kim
born in Seoul, Korea
mmmin1214@gmail.com

I construct situations where bodies become political actors within technological systems of capture and display. Working from Seoul's hyper-surveilled environment, I develop real-time systems that transform white cubes, black boxes, and everyday spaces into sites where conventional relationships between performer, audience, and apparatus are reconfigured. My practice extends from artists who use institutional spaces to stage encounters between bodies and power structures—yet where others might orchestrate purely human interactions, I introduce computational agents that fundamentally alter the conditions of agency and spectatorship.

As an independent developer, I build technological choreographies from the ground up, collaborating with dancers, data scientists, and medical institutions to create works where bodies tracked by cameras, sensors, and algorithms reveal new forms of performativity. Each project repositions the surveilled body—whether in galleries, theaters, or hospitals—as an active negotiator rather than passive subject, exposing how power operates through technological mediation while creating spaces for resistance through play, excess, and improvisation. The white cube becomes a laboratory for biometric speculation, the black box a site for human-machine duets, and everyday surveillance infrastructure a playground for subversive embodiment.

김민영은 디지털과 정보 기술이 신체 감각을 매개하고 변형시키는 과정을 탐구한다. 렌즈 기반 미디어에서 출발한 그의 작업은 카메라가 단순히 기록하는 것이 아니라 현실을 적극적으로 재구성한다는 인식을 바탕으로, 감시 기술을 안무적 구조와 서사 장치로 전환시킨다. 작가는 컴퓨터 비전, AI, 라이다 센서, 생체 모니터링 시스템 등을 퍼포먼스의 공동 수행자로 초대한다. 기계의 시선이 무대 위 신체를 실시간으로 해석하고 서술하는 과정에서 발생하는 물리적 현존과 알고리즘적 번역 사이의 간극은 새로운 내러티브 공간이 된다. 무용수의 움직임이 데이터로, 생체 신호가 시장 정보로, 일상의 리듬이 알고리즘의 재료로 변환되는 순간들을 포착하며, 현대 기술 환경에서 신체가 경험하는 긴장과 변형을 드러낸다.

시뮬레이션은 그의 핵심 방법론이다. 게임 엔진으로 구현된 가상 환경, AI가 생성한 이미지 아카이브, 실시간 데이터로 변화하는 디지털 정원은 정보가 현실을 구성하는 오늘날의 조건을 탐색한다. 최근작들은 이러한 데이터 흐름을 다시 물질적이고 감각적인 경험으로 번역하며, 가상과 실재의 경계가 모호해진 시대에 신체성의 의미를 재정의한다. 작가에게 신체는 기술과 대립하는 자연적 실체가 아니라 이미 다양한 매체와 얽혀 있는 복합적 존재다. 독립 XR 개발자이자 연구자로서 로봇공학, AI, 현대무용 등 다양한 분야와 협업하며, 기술의 가능성을 탐구하는 동시에 그것이 만들어내는 새로운 감각적 조건을 비평적으로 성찰한다.

CV

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2025 (Duo)《Sugar Sugar Loops》, Factory2, Seoul
2024 《Forking Room 2024: Hyper Super X-Large Boom!》, Post Territory Ujeongguk, Seoul
2023 《Generation that Generates》, Art Center Nabi, Seoul
2023 《ZER01NE Day 2023》, Seongsu S Factory, Seoul
2022 《Art&Tech Salon》, Arts Council Korea (ARKO), online showcase
2022 《ZER01NE Day 2022》, Seongsu S Factory, Seoul
2022 (Duo)《Giant Whisper》, C.ENTER, Seoul
2022 《AI with Weird Wonderland》, Celine Park Gallery, Seoul
2021 《JOURNEYS: THE HEALING ARTS》, Saatchi Gallery, London
2021 《ZER01NE Day 2021》, online showcase
2021 《Nextrise》 (Tech Conference), COEX, Seoul
2020 《Play on AI》, Art Center Nabi , Seoul
2018 《Transmission Pit》, The Lancaster Vaults, Southampton
2018 《Between Things》, Catalyst Arts, Belfast
2018 《Show RCA》, Royal College of Art, London
2018 《SOAPBOX》, Close Up Cinema, London
2018 Open Screening, Whitechapel Gallery, London
2017 Open Studios, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
2017 《Small Press Project》, UCL, London

PERFORMANCE
2023 《Alain》, QUAD Theatre, Seoul

GRANTS & AWARDS
2025 Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Arts Support Program
2023 Arts Council Korea, Art and Technology Convergence Grant
2022 Hyundai Motor Company, ZERO1NE Creator
2022 Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Arts Support Program
2022 Arts Council Korea, Art and Technology Convergence Grant
2021 Hyundai Motor Company, ZERO1NE Creator
2020 CW+ (Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust), Relax Digital Commission
2020 Art Center Nabi & Korea Creative Content Agency, Young Creator Support Program
2019 CW+ (Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust), Relax Digital Commission

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
2025 《Weaving the Energy》 , Energy X Technology X Art seminar, Seoul National University, Seoul
2024 Korean National Contemporary Dance Company, Dance X Technology Creation Lab, Seoul
2023 ZER01NE Z-Lab, Seoul
2021 Wanderlust: Research Development Using Korean Emotion Recognition Database, KAIST x Art Center Nabi
2021 Open Lab, Art Center Nabi, Seoul

RESIDENCIES
2024 Forkingroom 2024:Hyper Super X-large, KR
2018 Digital Artist Residency (DAR), Online
2017 Cité Internationale des Arts (supported by RCA), Paris

CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS
2025 Humanoids Embodied Co-Creation Workshop, Facilitator
2024 Art Korea Lab (Korea Arts Management Service) 《AI Communication Lab》, Workshop Instructor

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2024/25 Sogang University, Department of Art & Technology, Lecturer
2024/25 Hanyang University, Department of Design Technology, Lecturer
2024 Kookmin University Graduate School of Spatial Design, Guest Lecturer
2024 Kaywon University of Art & Design, Department of Photography, Guest Lecturer
2023 Konkuk University, Visual Communication Design, Lecturer
2023 Kaywon University of Art & Design, Department of Moving Image Design, Guest Lecturer
2018 Wimbledon College of Arts, Print and Time-Based Media Course, Guest Lecturer

ART PRODUCTION SUPPORT
2023 Yaloo, game engine simulation production
2023 Dongjoo Seo, game engine simulation production
2022 Dongjoo Seo, game engine simulation production
2021 Jangwon Lee, Mixed Reality development

EDUCATION
2016/18 MA Moving Image, Royal College of Art
2010/16 BFA Fashion Design, Ewha Womans University