ABOUT
Lisa PARK SoYoung is a Hong Kong-based, South Korean-born educator, and a scholar / artist / curator in the overlapping fields of creative media, art, and technology. As a third-culture individual, Lisa's creative practices and theoretical reflections focus on expanding how we make and speak on art through diverse cultural perspectives. By applying this key ethos in her teaching and creative endeavors, Lisa advocates for systems and languages that are more ontologically diverse and equitably global.
Weaving together projects in education, art-making, expanded curation, and academic research, Lisa's medium-agnostic practices converge as an interdiciplinary action research platform. She has a BFA (Visual Arts) from York University (2006), and an MFA (2015) and PhD (2022) in Creative Media, at City University of Hong Kong.
ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS
Leonardo Journal, Technoetic Arts Journal, International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA 2016, 2024), Consciousness Reframed (China), and RIXC Open Fields (Latvia), Ars Electronica Garden Hong Kong symposium on Post-human Art (2021), Art Centre Nabi's East-meets-East conference at Korean Cultural Centre in London (2022), Open Systems PhD Salon at Art Machines: International Symposium on Machine Learning and Art (2020), New Vision Arts Festival at the Asia Society HK (2021), and on AI and the Arts panel organized by Asia Society Southern California (2023) ++
EXPANDED CURATION
Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) Hong Kong at the School of Creative Media, City University of HK (2024); Ars Electronica Garden HK (2020 & 2021); Open Sky Campus exhibitions (2014-16) and Open Sky Gallery Open call and exhibition for ISEA2016 (2016); FOUNDATION: A Web3 Media Art Festival by Videotage HK (2022-3); Hybrid HCI Hackathons for future interaction for Smart Glasses in Singapore (NUS, 2022); as well as earlier experiences with Fleeting Lights: The 4th Large-scale Interactive Media Arts Exhibition (2014); and Yahoo! Purple Hunt trans-media marketing campaign in the Philippines (2009) ++
Calling this section "art-making", as opposed to "Art", is to foreground the processes of making art, rather than the end-product itself. By experimenting with the process of creation while negotiating real-life considerations, we can glimpse unspoken cultural logic and inclinations in action.
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Based on an expansive and medium-agnostic framing of "art", curation is an immersive, context-specific, and relational art form. It opens up space for dialogue and community building through which new research agendas can emerge and circulate, while opening up 'academic' discussions to an expanded audience.
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My doctoral research envision experimental art praxis as a laboratory to reflect, experiment with, and nurture practices and theories from alternative metaphysical worldview.
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Teaching is an integral part of my advocacy towards a decentralized and ontologically diversified media art-world.
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