Artist Statement

Keywords: Digital Art, Data Art, Artistic Exploration of Data, Outliers, Concept-driver

With the rapid advancement of information technology, many people live in data-saturated digital societies. The collection of our action, decisions and opinions are digitally traced and analyzed to inform decision-making or AI (Artificial Intelligent) products. Through the series of artwork, “The Sense of Data”, I artistically approached how our everyday lives could be expressed and influenced through data. This work-in-progress artwork, “Seeking for Outliers” is the process of my artistic exploration of data. I hope to reflect on how data brings a role as a concept driver in art practice, where it defines materials, forms, shapes and context of meaning-making through my creative practice and discuss further on the artistic exploration of possible ‘outliers’ in data.

• Younghui Kim is an artist and researcher in the discipline of digital art and design. Since practicing interactive media in New York during late-90s, her artworks are expressed in various forms and digital media such as wearable, kinetic, tangible media for the last 15 years. Through creative practice, she questions about everyday issues of current digital society in rapid transformation. After living in New York and Seoul for each decade, she now resides in Australia for her on-going research in digital art as a PhD candidate at Queensland University of Technology. Younghui earned her BFA degree from Parsons School of Design, USA, Master degree from ITP, New York University, USA. She has presented her artworks at numerous art exhibitions worldwide such as Platform-L Live Arts 2018 (Seoul), CHI 2018 (Montreal), TEI Art 2015 (Stanford), Savina Museum 2014, Seoul Arko Art Center 2014, CHI 2013 (Paris), Art Center Nabi 2012 & Da Vinci Creative 2012 (Seoul), ISEA2011 (Istanbul).

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