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, and nature. She foregrounds the complexity of social relationships by making the familiar strange and interpreting everyday behaviors in performative ways. Her work has been exhibited and showcased widely at venues including 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. Art Festival, The LAB in San Francisco, and the Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletronica (FILE), as well as academic and research platforms including SIGGRAPH, CHI, TEI, ISEA, and C&C, with international exhibitions across Turkey, Ireland, China, Korea, Poland, 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 a recipient of an Anonymous Was A Woman Grant, has collaborated with the New York Botanical Garden, and participated in a residency at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. She is currently an associate professor of digital design at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT).

Field Recording 2026	Heritage Trees 2025	African American Burial Ground 2025
Green Wall 2024	Tactile Ecology 2024	LoveForm 2024
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	Gaze 2006