Minso Kim

Visiting Assistant Professor
Website: Minso-Kim.com

About

Minso Kim is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and researcher whose work explores the intersection of emerging technologies, designed objects and contemporary visual arts. Her doctoral research focuses on contemporary interactive artifacts, what she calls naturoids, that merge biophilic and speculative design within creative media practices. By examining how artists and designers expand consciousness while drawing on hidden ancestral knowledge, Kim connects technological innovation with questions of society, environment and culture.

Her scholarship has been disseminated through conference presentations and publications, including those in Human-Robot Interaction, the International Symposium on Electronic Arts, and the Broadcasting Education Association, among others. Her creative works have been exhibited at the Buk-Seoul Museum of Art in Seoul, Korea; the Fiske Planetarium in Boulder, Colorado; Minnesota State University, Mankato, Minnesota; and the Short Film Festival in Budapest, Hungary, among other venues.

Recent projects include a collaborative study of medieval painting through the lens of medical science, as well as explorations of future living environments through interactive and speculative media. Blending art, design, and technology, Kim investigates how human imagination, ancestral knowledge, and innovation intersect to shape new ways of perceiving and engaging with the world.