Education

Ph.D., Media, Art & Text, Virginia Commonwealth University
M.F.A., Digital+Media, Rhode Island School of Design
M.F.A., Media Art, Yonsei University
B.F.A., Film, Television and Multimedia, SungKyunKwan University

Bio

Byeongwon Ha is an assistant professor of Media Arts in the School of Visual Art and Design at the University of South Carolina. He is an artist and researcher in the field of new media art, based in Columbia, South Carolina. His research traces a significant transition from analog media, including film, architecture, and video, to new media. He has exhibited interactive installations in Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Australia, Colombia, South Africa, Canada, and the United States. To interact with scholars and artists from around the world, he has participated in international conferences and festivals in the field of art and technology, such as the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST 2024), the ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition (C&C 2024), the ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS 2023), the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2016), SIGGRAPH Asia 2012, the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024), and ARTECH 2019 and 2021. In 2018, he participated in an artist-in-residence program at the Asia Culture Center in Gwangju, South Korea, where he exhibited his participatory video project Ordinary People. In 2019, Dr. Ha published two articles: “Nam June Paik’s Unpublished Korean Article and His Interactive Musique Concrète Projects” as the author in Leonardo Music Journal (MIT Press) and “Survey and Analysis of Interactive Art Documentation, 1979–2017” as a coauthor in Leonardo (MIT Press).

Courses

Digital Media Arts Fundamentals (MART 210)

New Media Art (MART 380)

New Media Advanced: Site-based and Installation Art (MART 581A)

New Media Advanced: Sound Art (MART 581E)

Research and Practice in New Media Art: Site-based and Installation Art (MART 781A)

Research and Practice in New Media Art: Sound Art (MART 781E)