Joo Yun Lee
Pratt Institute
South Korea, United States
Joo Yun Lee is an art historian, curator, and cultural producer based in New York and working on the intersection of art and computational media in contemporary art and visual culture. She received her Ph.D. in Art History and Criticism from Stony Brook University, where she wrote a dissertation on Japanese composer and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda’s audiovisual work: Infinitesimal to Infinity: Ryoji Ikeda’s Data Composition and Space of Sensing (2018). She finds her interests in ontology, materiality, spatiality, and the senses of computational media and its social political implication in art and visual culture from the 1960s to the present crossing regional boundaries. Her research brings together methodologies from art history and criticism, critical studies, media aesthetics and archeology, post-phenomenological philosophy, sound studies, and history of computational media to provide a more sophisticated aesthetic, historical, and theoretical foundation for the criticism of experimental art and sound practices at the intersection of art, science, and computational media. She was awarded Fulbright Graduate Study Award and was a 2013-2014 Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow in the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program, and teaches at the Pratt Institute in New York. Before starting her doctoral work in art history, she was an assistant curator at the Seoul Museum of Art and was in charge of the Seoul International Media Art Festival. She was also an editor of AliceOn (aliceon.net), South Korea’s first web magazine and networking channel on media art and culture.