Hyo Jung Kim is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University.
Hyo Jung’s work engages with the interaction among humans, machines, and capital. In her work, Hyo Jung thinks about how machines make humans feel, behave, and make relations in certain ways, and how this human-machine relation co-consitutes changing forms of global techno-capitalism and political economy in the digital era.
As of 2024, Hyo Jung is completing her doctoral dissertation on the human-machine interaction in technological environments from smart factories to smart cities in digitalizing Vietnam.
In her Master’s thesis, Hyo Jung examined subcultural practices by global K-Pop fans who repurposed computational technologies to bypass geo-blocking on the internet. Prior to her doctoral study at the MCC, Hyo Jung worked in the art world in the U.S., Vietnam, and Korea as curator, translator, and researcher.
Hyo Jung holds an M.A. in Art History and Criticism with a Media, Art, Culture, and Technology certificate from Stony Brook University, and a B.A. double major in Journalism and Art History from Ewha Womans University.