Kristy H.A. Kang
Most Recent Affiliation(s):
- Nanyang Technological University, Assistant Professor
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ISEA2019
Kristy H.A. Kang is a practice-based researcher whose work explores narratives of place and geographies of cultural memory. She is Assistant Professor at the School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her research interests combine urban and ethnic studies, mapping, animation and emerging media arts to visualize cultural histories of cities and communities. She is currently developing a project with the Urban Redevelopment Authority mapping the spatial narratives of Singapore’s ethnic communities. Her works have been exhibited internationally and received awards including the Jury Award for New Forms at the Sundance Online Film Festival. She was co-organizer of an international symposium on mediated public space “Emergent Visions: Adjacency and Urban Screens” (http://www.emergentvisions.org) and her article “Interfaces and Intentionalities: Adjacent Practices of Urban Media Art in Singapore” will be published in a forthcoming special issue on Urban Interfaces in Leonardo Electronic Almanac.
ISEA2011
Kristy H.A. Kang is an award winning Korean-American media artist and educator at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, where she is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Media Arts and Practice. Ms. Kang has lectured and taught multimedia workshops internationally at universities in Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Since 1997, she has been a Creative Director with The Labyrinth Project research initiative on interactive narrative and digital scholarship at USC. Contributing her background in digital arts and animation, she has served as project director and designer on a range of collaborative projects at Labyrinth. These works have been exhibited internationally and received numerous awards including the Jury Award for New Forms at the 2004 Sundance Online Film Festival which she received as co-director with filmmaker Carroll Parrot Blue and The Labyrinth Project for The Dawn at My Back:Memoir of a Black Texas Upbringing–an interactive memoir which explores the cultural history of race in Houston by juxtaposing official histories with Blue’s personal narrative and family archives. Kang was the director of Labyrinth’s two science visualization projects A Tale of Two MAO Genes: Exploring the Biology and Culture of Aggression and Anxiety, a collaboration with molecular biologist Jean Chen Shih, which is being used as a model for interactive science education at USC and universities in China and Taiwan, and Three Winters in the Sun: Einstein in California – an interactive installation about Albert Einstein exhibited at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. Among Labyrinth’s projects on the city Kang co-directed are The Danube Exodus: The Rippling Currents of the River, a cinematic installation with Hungarian documentary filmmaker Peter Forgács which premiered at The Getty Center, and Tracing the Decay of Fiction: Encounters with a Film by Pat O’Neill–an exploration of the Ambassador Hotel and it’s surrounding neighborhood near downtown Los Angeles. Kang’s research interests include spatial and mobile narrative, digital humanities and transnational media studies between the U.S. and East Asia. Video Excerpts from “Tracing the Decay of Fiction: Encounters with a Film by Pat O’Neill” by Pat O’Neill, Rosemary Comella, Kristy H.A. Kang and The Labyrinth Project (2002).
ISEA2008
Dr.Kristy H.A. Kang(USA/SG) is an award winning media artist and scholar whose work explores narratives of place and geographies of cultural memory.
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Last Known Location:
- Singapore
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Title: Visualizing the Invisible: Exploring the Border between Science and Culture
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Title: Illuminating Invisible Histories in the City of Continual Becoming
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Title: Media Ruins: Aesthetics of Neglected Media in the Software City
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Title: Practices and Poetics of Urban Media Art in the Shadows of the Illuminated City Panel Introduction
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