Hye Yeon Nam

Hye Yeon Nam is a digital media artist and HCI designer exploring how technology can improve our interactions with other agents - humans, robots, or nature. She foregrounds the complexity of social relationships by making the familiar strange and interpreting everyday behaviors in performative ways. Hye Yeon has participated in exhibitions, festivals, and showcases at ARS Electronica Center, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Asia Society Texas Center, Japanese American National Museum, Times Square,Eyebeam, Conflux festival, D.U.M.B.O. Festival, the Lab in San Francisco, Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletronica (FILE), SIGGRAPH, Computer-Human Interaction (CHI), Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI), International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), Creativity & Cognition (C&C), and several festivals in China, Istanbul,Ireland, the UK, Germany, Australia, Denmark, and Switzerland. Her work has been broadcast on the Discovery Channel and LIVE TV show Good Day Sacramento, published in Leonardo Journal and featured in Wired, We Make Money Not Art, Makezine, Business Insider, Slashdot, Engadget among other publications. She is currently an associate professor of digital design at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT).

LoveForm 2023	Ec(h)o 2023	Contingent Dreams 2023
FloraWear 2022-2023	Talking Place 2021	Shifting Datum 2019-2021
Interactive Finger Puppet 2018	Floating Identity in Auburn 2017-2018	Invisible Stream 2017-2018
Journey of Footsteps 2016	Floating Identity in Korea 2015	Self-Portrait 2015/2006
Cheeeeese 2014	Breathing 2014	Hooray 2013
Whatever You Say 2012	Please Smile 2011	Life is a Journey Lamp 2011
Kiss Controller 2011	Dinner Party 2010/2008	Huggable Nature 2010
Wonderland 2008	Suffocation 2006	Gaze 2006