JUNG E. CHOI
Education
Dec 2016
– PhD in Visual & Media Studies, Duke University, Durham, NC
The Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Dissertation Title: Materializing Depths: The Potential of Contemporary Art and Media
Dissertation Advisor: PhD Mark B.N. Hansen
– Graduate Certificate in Information Science + Studies
: new media and digital humanities research and training
May 2009
– MA in Visual Culture Theory, New York University, NY, NY
Dissertation Title: Reterritorializing the Body – Bodies in Mixed Reality
Dissertation Advisor: PhD Nicholas Mirzoeff
Aug 2006
– Graduate Certificate in Art Theory, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea
Aug 2004
– BA, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea
Work Experiences
July 2019 – Present Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Studies, Media and Arts, Duke Kunshan University, Kunshan, China
July 2020 – Present Major Coordinator, Historical and Critical Studies, Media and Arts, DKU, Kunshan, China
June 2021– Present Exhibition Director, Transtopia I & II, Seongnam Art Center, Seongnam, Korea. (https://www.snart.or.kr/main/main)
June 2021 – Present Co-PI, AR Urban Museum, Seongnam Cultural Foundation, Seongnam, Korea (http://arurbanmuseum.co.kr/)
Sept 2019 – Present Co-director, Kunshan Digital Humanity Lab, DKU, Kunshan, China
July 2018 – June 2019 Director (PI), Digital Humanities City: The Restoration of Soon-sung, Sponsored by National Research Foundation of Korea & Seoul Metropolitan Government, Seoul, Korea (www.inmuncity.org)
Mar 2018 – Present Assistant Professor, The Department of New Media, Seoul Institute of Technology, Seoul, Korea
Apr 2017 – Feb 2018 Research Scholar, Ghett/APP_Visualizing Venice, Wired Lab; Information Science+Studies, Duke University, Durham, USA
Sep 2016 – Dec 2016 Teaching Instructor, Information Science+Studies, Duke University, Durham, USA
Sep 2010 – Dec 2013 Teaching Instructor, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Duke University, Durham, USA
Sep 2007 – Present Editorial Correspondent, AliceOn, Seoul, Korea www.aliceon.net
May 2009 – Aug 2009 Research Fellow, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Seoul, Korea
Sep 2004 – Aug 2007 Founding Editor / Project Curator, AliceOn, Seoul, Korea
Nov 2006 – July 2007 Exhibition Coordinator / Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (ZKM), Karlsruhe, Germany
May 2006 – Sep 2006 Curator / The Special Exhibition of 2006 Goyang International Children’s Film Festival (2006 GICFF), Gyeonggi-do, Korea
June 2005 – Aug 2006 Curator / Art Center Nabi, Seoul, Korea
Sep 2004 – Dec 2004 Curator / Preparat, Seoul, Korea
Selected Publications, Editions & Translations (*: in Korean)
Choi, J. E., S. Choi., ed., Hashtag. Seoul. GOP: Seoul, 2021.
Choi, J. E., “Introduction: Fragmented Thoughts on Space,” Hashtag. Seoul. Edited by Jung E. Choi and Solhee Choi, GOP: Seoul, 2021.
Choi, J. E., “Toward an Integrated Digital Humanities: A Deep Reading,” International Journal of Digital Humanities, Springer, 2021. Full-text
Choi, J. E., “Arts of Living the Anthropocene,” ACKIS No.97, Korea Culture and Tourism Institute, 2020.
Choi, J. E., “Contemporary Korean Media Art: Opening the Space of In-between.” Edited by Y.S. Chung, S. J. Kim, and Keith Wagner, Korean Art from 1953: Collision, Innovation and Interaction (1953-Present): Conflicts, Innovations and Interactions, London: Phaidon, 2020, pp 284-299.
Choi, J. E., “Challenging, Expanding, and Pushing the Boundaries,” Hyundai Motor Art, Seoul: ENart, 2019.
Choi, J. E., “The Paradigm Shifts in Art and Science: From Bodies to Environments” ACKIS, Korea Culture and Tourism Institute, Vol. 65 (2018): 2-13.
Choi, J. E., “The Fragmented Orchestra: Where Space Emerges in Network, Somatic Memory, and Depresencing,” Content Plus, The Korea Society of Media & Arts, Vol. 16, No. 3 (2018): 5-19.
Choi, J. E., “The Experiential Assemblage of the Singular Plural Autobiographical Situation: Tino Sehgal’s Carte Blanche.” Studies of Modern Art History, Korea Association for History of Modern Art, Vol, 40, No. 2 (2017): 173-189.
Choi, J. E., “Architecture of Depth: Gravicells as a Critical Spatial Practice in the 21st Century.” Journal of the Faculty of Architecture, Vol. 34, No. 2 (2017): 1-12.
Choi, J. E., Finding Depth in Postmodern Self_You Were Once There Too. Soo Gwack Solo Exhibition Catalogue, Seoul: Gallery Dos, June 2017.
Choi, J. E., “Materializing Depth in Gravicells: The Potential of Twenty-first-century Media.” In Archiving and Questioning Immateriality. Edited by Everardo Reyes-Garcia, Pierre Châtel-Innocenti, Khaldowun Zreik, Paris: Europia Productions, 2016.
Choi, J. E., “Toward 21st Century Media: Critical Spatial Practices in Art History,” Studies of Modern Art History, Korea Association for History of Modern Art, Vol. 39, No. 1 (2016):
Choi, J. E., “Cyborgs as Embodiments of Sociocultural Paradigms of Human Identity—From Dada New Man to Contemporary Hybridized Bodies,” The Journal of the Society of Art & Design, Vol. 18, No. 4 (2015): 214-239. Access at: http://www.art-design.or.kr/page_nFlr55
Choi, J. E., “Conceptual Laboratory of Depth: Olafur Eliasson’s Your Atmospheric Colour Atlas,” Art and Documentation, Issue 10 (Autumn, 2014): 61-66. Access at: http://www.journal.doc.art.pl/pdf10/art_and_text_jung_choi.pdf
Choi, J. E., “Pinar Yoldas_Trespassing Boundaries,” Aliceon, Feb 2013.
Choi, J. E., “Zero 1 Biennale,” Review, Aliceon, Oct, 2012.
Choi, J. E., “Figurative Sound & Potential Ground”, Hakseung Lee Solo Exhibition Catalogue, Seoul: Gallery 175, 2008. Access at: https://neolook.com/archives/20080212e
Choi, J. E., “Hey, Mr. Paik, Once Again,” Aliceview, Aliceon.net, Jan, 2007. Access at: http://aliceon.tistory.com/208
Choi, Martha J. E., and et al. ed., Thermocline of Art. New Asian Waves. Exhibition Catalogue, ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2007.
Choi, J. E., ed., Project I 1.0, Seoul: Art Center Nabi Press, Korea, 2005.
Choi, J. E., Y. S. Chung and et al., trans, Critical Terms for Media Studies, Edited by W.T.J Mitchell and Mark B.N. Hansen, Seoul: Mijinsa, Korea, 2015. (English to Korean)
Selected Talks & Presentations
– Choi, J. E. “On placeness”, Artist Talk_Transtopia I, Seongnam Art Center, Seongnam, Korea, Aug, 2021.
– Choi, J. E. “Visualizing the Anthropocene”, SECAC Annual Conference, USA, 2020. (Session Chair)
– Choi, J. E. H.J. Kim., J. Y. Chun. “Digital Humanities City: Restoration of Soonsung: Experiencing urban space and time through humanities and arts in the digital age,” The 6th World Humanities Forum: Humanities of Harmony: Striving towards Coexistence and Mutual Prosperity, Gyeongju, Korea, Nov 19-21, 2020.
– Choi, J. E. (host) “Curating Experience as A Work of Art,” 2018 CAA’s Annual Conference, USA
– Choi, J. E. Session Chair, “Curating Experience as A Work of Art,” 2018 CAA’s Annual Conference, Los Angeles, USA, Feb 2018. (invited)
– Choi, J. E. “Contemporary Korean Media Art: Opening the Space of In-between,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angels, USA, Oct. 21, 2017.
– Choi, J. E. “This Experiential Assemblage of the Singular Plural Autobiographical Situation: Tino Sehgal’s Carte Blanche,” The 18th International Symposium: Art and Autobiography, Korea Association for History of Modern Art, Sep. 23, 2017
– Choi, J. E. “Spatial Practices and Paradigms of Contemporary Art and Media,” The Department of Digital Humanities and New Media, Molloy University, Aug 29, 2017.
– Choi, J. E. “The Fragmented Orchestra: Depth, Somatic Memory, and Inter-implication,” 2017 CAA’s Annual Conference, New York, USA, Feb 14-18, 2017.
– Choi, J. E. “Materializing Depth in Gravicells: The Potential of Twenty-first-century Media,” Digital Art: Archiving and Questioning Immateriality, The 5th International Computer Art Congress, Paris, France, Oct 26-28, 2016.
– Choi, J. E. “History of New Media Art,” The Department of Art History, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea, Dec 2015.
– Choi, J. E., “Temporalizing the Space of Light: Olafur Eliasson’s Your Atmospheric Colour Atlas,” See the Light: The 30th Annual Boston University Symposium, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA, Feb 2014.
– Choi, J. E., “Reterritorializing the Body – Bodies in Mixed Reality,” Reading the Body in Contemporary Culture, The Art Gallery and the Department of Art History and Archaeology, The University of Maryland, College Park, USA, April 2011.
– Choi, J. E., “Possible Location for Play, Imagination, and Storytelling: A Mixed Reality,” Storytelling: Playful Interactions and Spaces of Imagination in Contemporary Visual Culture, The Department of History of Art and Architecture of University of Pittsburgh in collaboration with Carnegie Museum of Art and the Film Studies Department, USA, 2008.
– Choi, J. E., “Life of Nam June Paik,” Seocho Women Cultural Center, Seoul, Korea, Jul 2006.
Teaching Experiences
2018-2019
– Critical Studies in Visual and Media Studies
– Digital Curation
– New Media Aesthetics
– Topics in New Media Art
– Instructor, Fundamentals of Web-Based Multimedia Communications, Cross-listed in Information Science & Studies, Program in Arts of the Moving Image, and Visual & Media Studies, Duke University
* Fall 2016
– Instructor, Introduction to Visual Culture, Cross-listed in Art History and Visual & Media Studies, Duke University
* Fall 2013
* Fall 2011
* Fall 2010
– Teaching Assistant
History of Art Market, Spring 2013
Contemporary Documentary Studies, Spring 2011
Media Theory, Spring 2010
Professional Affiliations
Committee Chair, International Symposium on Electronic Art 2019
College Art Association [CAA]
Society of Cinema and Media Studies [SCMS]
Awards
– 2016 Conference Travel Award, The Graduate School, Duke University, Durham, USA
– 2016 The Graduate Student Training Enhancement Grants, Interdisciplinary Studies, Duke University, Durham, USA
– 2009 – 2014 Full-time PhD Fellowship, Art, Art History and Visual Studies, Duke University, Durham, USA
– 2013 Summer Research Fellowship, The Graduate School, Duke University, Durham, USA
– 2012 Summer Research Award, Art, Art History and Visual Studies, Duke University, Durham, USA
– 2008 Symposium Travel Award, Graduate Student Association, NYU, New York, USA
– 2006 Art Center Nabi, The First Place in Curatorial Award of the Minister of Culture, Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Seoul, Korea
– 2005 – 2006 Alumni Scholarship, The Graduate School of Hongik University, Seoul, Korea
– 2003 – 2004 Outstanding Performance Fellowship, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea
– 2002 – 2003 Outstanding Performance Fellowship, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea
Languages
Korean (Native), English (Fluent), German (Proficient)
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