bio

Suk Kyoung Choi is a Korean artist and researcher working in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. She obtained her PhD from the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University, as a member of PI Dr. Steve DiPaola’s iViz lab. Choi’s research examines conceptual metaphor in artistic praxis to study the nature of embodied transformation between experience and knowledge. Suk Kyoung explores the phenomenology of AI mediated painting process to extend knowledge of human factors informing the development of collaborative artificially intelligent technologies supporting human expression. Artistic painting offers access to transitional states existing at the interstices of expression and reflection. It is the translation of this tacit knowledge embodied in artistic practice and expressed through creative inquiry that she identifies as essential to future advances in affective technologies modeling human creativity. Her guiding research questions are therefore motivated by such critical issues as computational access to the pre-conceptual ‘mental image’, what factors and schema give rise to expressive acts, and how these questions inform learning strategies in an increasingly digital culture. A central motivation is the reconciliation of human acts and planetary environments in the late Anthropocene.

Her artwork has been shown in Seoul, London, Calgary, Chicago, Vancouver, and Munich.

Feel free to contact me at sukkyoungc@gmail.com.