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.