Taehee Kim
Bio With an electronic engineering background, Taehee Kim has studied Robotics and Artificial Intelligence to obtain his Ph.D degree. at the University of Edinburgh, Since then, he has been a researcher and educator as a senior researcher at Korea Institute for S&T Information and then at the Department of Computer Games, Youngsan University, Korea as an Associate Professor. He is now an MFA student at the Digital Media Department, Rhode School of Design. Taehee Kim’s research interest has been focused on the study on interactivity design especially in the context of progressive use the material and the structure of body for creation of interactivity. He is trying to create new fine art works using tools suggested by Artificial Intelligence and robotics with an emphasis on discovering new perspectives of using sensing in conjunction with motion. Artist Statement The world is probably not the world that I think it is. I have such limited senses that I cannot see galaxies and at the same time see atoms. I cannot hear what atoms tell me, so cannot hear all that you talk to me. What I see as the personality and character of yours is an illusion that has been reflected on the mind as a mirror with curves, distortion, debris, and stains and perhaps covered by a translucent membrane. Perspectives are like cutting a carrot. Once cut, you cannot see the carrot. Looking is cutting a boundary between you and me. I know not much even looking into myself. Am I alive? Who knows if this is also a phenomenal illusion. Finding human quality in a combination of those technologies will help us better choose a right way. Feeling of beauty and making a joke will fill the world with more meanings. I use technological tools for art creation from a motor, sensors to computer programming and graphics. I employ physical and relational dynamism. I want to make something to look alive and to recognize us that greet us. I want to make something so fantastic that one would want to be part of it. I am interested in creating new senses about space and time which would stimulate new narratives.



