Insook Choi
Theory + Composition
e-mail: insook.choi@csulb.edu
Dr. Insook Choi produces creative work reflecting her engagement with new media forms, emerging technology, and cognitive and human sciences. Her work also reflects her foundations and upbringing in a deep and abiding culture during an era of remarkable transformation and modernization.
Trained as a musician and composer in both Western and Korean traditions, she adopted computational thinking as part of her creative process. Working with interactive digital performance and virtual reality, she expanded her creative palette to include graphics and documentary media. Seeking to transform the digital canvas into a more intuitive and organic medium, Insook developed new techniques for interaction design and digital curation. Her creative process includes designs for digital system architectures and tangible performance interfaces.
Her research integrates and has contributed to virtual reality, human movement studies, nonlinear narrative structures, simulation and modelling, distributed sensor networks, signal analysis, AI methods involving pattern recognition, and prototype media performance systems. Her works have been performed and broadcast at international venues; her research is published in creative and technical research journals and invited for presentations at international conferences; her writing also appears as an invited editor of published research editions. She participates on international editorial boards and conference committees in areas of creative technology, human-computer interaction, user experience, and artificial intelligence. Her most recent large-scale work, Touch Crescent Moons applied ambient smart objects enabling installation visitors to control interactive documentary media. This work was curated by the European Cultural Center for their 2019 Venice Biennale exhibition.
Before coming to California, Dr. Choi was located at MediaCityUK in Greater Manchester, UK, where she was Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts and Technology, and Chair in Creative Media and Technology in the School of Arts and Media, University of Salford. She previously held positions at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Polytechnic University (NYU), the City University of New York, where she was founding Director of the Emerging Media Technologies Program, and Columbia College Chicago, where she was Associate Provost for Creative Technology Strategy. Her work has been supported by the Electrical Engineering department at UC Berkeley, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and the Human-Computer Intelligent Interaction group in the Beckman Institute for Advanced Sciences and Technology, University of Illinois.
