Young Suk Lee will take up the postion of UmArts WASP-HS Art and AI Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Umeå Institute of Design, after recently completing her PhD thesis ‘Expressive Entities: An Exploration and Critical Reflection on Poetic Engagements with Technology’ at the School of Engineering Technology, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands. Her design practice is also based on an integrated training through Fine Art (MFA), Digital Art (MFA), Human-Computer Interaction (M.S). This cross-disciplinary background brings an artistic critical approach to designing human-technology relations. As an artist and researcher she creates new ideas on aesthetic interactions in everyday life; pursuing interactive, imaginative, and ‘usable’ engagements with technology by exploring meaningful embodiments that accommodate sensitive human values. Young Suk’s research in Umeå will investigate the poetic embodiments of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning by developing delicate human values omitted from generic algorithms and vast data sets of AI machines. The practice will reconnect ordinary artifacts to poetic experiences using practice-driven research with a hybrid approach (traditional craft, digital fabrication, and physical computing) by integrating the theoretical foundations of art, technology, and design research.
Young Suk Lee
