Artist statement

I am a multi-disciplinary artist working in video, new media, and textiles. I came to my art practice through an unlikely path: working in user experience design at Apple and HP Labs. Like a UX designer, I methodically research, gather data, and synthesize findings, but as an artist my data points capture human memories, emotions, and experience. I piece together larger truths these data points reveal and connect them to patterns in history and society around craft, technology, labor, and gender.

I use patterns and algorithms interchangeably to show that the line between craft and technology is arbitrary and often based on gender-biased valuations of female labor. My recent body of work centers the instrumental role women played in the history of computing, a surprise to many considering today's male-dominated tech industry.

My lived experience as a first-generation Korean American, a female tech worker, and a mother has given me a perspective that draws me towards overlooked histories, and provides me with the awareness that much of what society takes as given are merely constructs. To society's assumptions I ask "why" and create alternate possibilities.

Understanding the patterns of history, I apply creative strategies such as design thinking from the technology industry and world-building from science fiction writing, to manifest an alternate present: women and men weave computer code and stitch circuits together as equal citizens in a global technological collective. In this developing body of work, weaving, video, e-textiles, and installation come together to change the very definition of technology and to whom it belongs.