Hye Yeon Nam


Hye Yeon Nam
is a digital media artist and HCI designer exploring how technology can improve our interactions with other agents - humans, robots, or nature. She foregrounds the complexity of social relationships by making the familiar strange and interpreting everyday behaviors in performative ways. Hye Yeon has participated in exhibitions, festivals, and showcases at ARS Electronica Center, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Asia Society Texas Center, Japanese American National Museum, Times Square,Eyebeam, Conflux festival, D.U.M.B.O. Festival, the Lab in San Francisco, Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletronica (FILE), SIGGRAPH, Computer-Human Interaction (CHI), Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI), International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), Creativity & Cognition (C&C), and several festivals in China, Istanbul,Ireland, the UK, Germany, Australia, Denmark, and Switzerland. Her work has been broadcast on the Discovery Channel and LIVE TV show Good Day Sacramento, published in Leonardo Journal and featured in Wired, We Make Money Not Art, Makezine, Business Insider, Slashdot, Engadget among other publications. She is currently an associate professor of digital art at Louisiana State University.
Rooted
Work in Progress
Ec(h)o
2023
Contingent Dreams
2023
FloraWear
2022-2023
Talking Place
2021
Shifting Datum
2019-2021

Interactive Finger Puppet
2018
Floating Identity in Auburn
2017-2018
Invisible Stream
2017-2018

Journey of Footsteps
2016

Floating Identity in Korea
2015

Self-Portrait
2015/2006

Cheeeeese
2014

Breathing
2014

Hooray
2013

Whatever You Say
2012

Please Smile
2011
Life is a Journey Lamp
2011
Kiss Controller
2011

Dinner Party
2010/2008

Huggable Nature
2010

Wonderland
2008

Suffocation
2006

Gaze
2006

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