June Yeoreum Kim is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University.
In her work, June critically engages with how machines make humans feel, behave, and make relations in certain ways, and how this human-machine relation co-constitutes changing forms of global techno-capitalism in the digital era. June grounds her inquiries in her positionality as a U.S.-trained, Korean-born person, observing contemporary Vietnamese society.
As of 2024, June is completing her doctoral dissertation on the emerging forms of invisibilized labor vis-a-vis human-machine interaction in technological environments from smart factories to smart cities in digitalizing Vietnam.
In her Master’s thesis, June 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, June worked in the art world in the U.S., Vietnam, and Korea as curator, translator, and researcher.
June 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.