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Kristy Kang (kkang)




Kristy H.A. Kang is an award winning media artist and educator in the digital humanities. She is a founding member of The Labyrinth Project—a research initiative on digital scholarship at the University of Southern California that has, since 1997, produced a range of interactive cultural histories using new media in collaboration with experimental filmmakers, scholars and cultural institutions. These works have been presented both internationally and nationally at conferences and art institutions including the Getty Research Institute, The Center for Media Art and Technology (ZKM), the Society for Cinema and Media Studies and received numerous awards including the Jury Award for New Forms at the 2004 Sundance Online Film Festival. Kang has lectured at universities in Asia, Europe and the Middle East and was an Adjunct Faculty at USC’s Division of Animation and Digital Arts in the School of Cinematic Arts where she is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Media Arts and Practice. Her research interests include animation, new media and transnational flows of digital media arts between the U.S. and Asia.








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    Kristy Kang unlocked Douglas EngelbartDouglas Engelbart   10 months, 2 weeks ago · View

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    Kristy Kang unlocked Alan TuringAlan Turing   10 months, 2 weeks ago · View

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    kkang wrote a new blog post: NAMELESS SCIENCE   3 years, 2 months ago · View

    Thumbnail Nameless Science Curated by Henk Slager December 10, 2008 – January 31, 2009 @ apexart 291 Churchstreet, New York, NY Opening reception: Wednesday, December 10, 6-8 pm With projects by Ricardo Basbaum (Brazil), Jan Kaila (Finland), Irene Kopelman (The Netherlands), Matts Leiderstam (Sweden), Ronan McCrea (Ireland), Sarah Pierce (UK/USA), and Morten Torgersrud (Norway). Related Symposium: [...]

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    kkang wrote a new blog post: RMB City   3 years, 2 months ago · View

    Thumbnail “RMB City” is a project in Second Life created by the 30 year old Beijing artist Cao Fei in March of 2008. Exploring the boundaries between virtual and physical worlds “RMB City” is a wry exploration of the correllation between the boom in Beijing’s global real estate market and the parallel international growth of the [...]

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    kkang wrote a new blog post: T-RACES   3 years, 2 months ago · View

    Thumbnail T-RACES: Testbed for the Redlining of Archives of California Exclusionary Spaces The University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI), in collaboration with the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at UNC Chapel Hill, will preserve, analyze, and make publicly accessible online documents relating to the practice of redlining neighborhoods in the 1930s and 1940s in [...]

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    kkang wrote a new blog post: Gendered Strategies for Loitering   3 years, 2 months ago · View

    Thumbnail Shilpa Phadke, Shilpa Ranade & Sameera Khan (India) Collaborating with : University Scholars Programme Cyberart Studio This was an interesting interactive piece featured at ISEA 2008 in Singapore. It explores questions of female subjectivity and public space in Mumbai. Like Singapore, Mumbai is reputed to be one of the safest cities in the world for women, and yet [...]

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    kkang wrote a new blog post: Special Event Monday 4pm @ Ron Howard Theatre   3 years, 5 months ago · View

    You are invited to a presentation by: Filmmaker MASAAKI TANABE and his Producer NORICO T. WADA HIROSHIMA GROUND ZERO & HIROSHIMA – WHERE DID MY HOME GO? Two documentary films featuring a 3-D graphics re-creation of the city before it was destroyed by the Atomic Bomb. Both films are part of Tanabe’s HIROSHIMA RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT [...]