Hye Yeon Nam

Hye Yeon Nam is a digital media artist working on performance video, speculative design, experimental games, and robotic installations. She is a Ph.D. candidate at the Georgia Institute of Technology and holds an M.F.A. in digital media from the Rhode Island School of Design. She foregrounds the complexity of social relationships by making the familiar strange, and interpreting everyday behaviors in performative ways. Hye Yeon's art has been showcased in The Smithsonians National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. (2011-2012), Times Square (2009), the art gallery Eyebeam and The Tank, the conflux, the D.U.M.B.O. Art Festival in New York (2009), FILE (2011, 2012), SIGGRAPH (2008, 2010), CHI (2010, 2012), ISEA (2011), E3 Expo (2011), the Lab in San Francisco, and several festivals in China, Istanbul, Ireland, the UK, Germany, Australia, Denmark, and Switzerland. Her work has been broadcast on the Discovery Channel (Canada) and LIVE TV show Goodday Sacramento, published in Leonardo Journal and featured in Wired, We Make Money Not Art, Makezine, Bussiness Insider, Slashdot, Engadget, and among other publications.

::Performance Video

Wonderland
2008 Feb

Self Portrait
2006 May

What Color is It?
2005 May

::Installations

Whatever you say (w/Inmi Lee) 2012 Jan	Please Smile (w/Changhyun Choi) 2011 Jan	Dinner Party (w/Jeremy Rotsztain, Zach Lieberman) 2010 Jul/2008 Jul
Window Project 2008 May, 2005 July	Suffocation 2006 May	Gaze 2006 May

::Artistic Products

Hooray (Man-Se)
2012 Jan

Life is a Journey Lamp
2011 Oct

Kiss Controller (w/Sam Mendenhall)
2011 Feb

::Community Workshop

Huggable Nature (w/Carl DiSalvo)
2010 Oct