Director, Arts Center Nabi (Seoul)

Soh-Yeong Roh founded Art Centre Nabi in 2000, transforming a contemporary art centre into a new media art centre, where art, technology, humanities, and industry come together to create new art and cultural artefacts.

As the main centre for new media arts in Korea, Art Centre Nabi promotes creative talents from diverse backgrounds, turning ideas into practices. Apart from directing Nabi, she gives lectures around the world and is a visiting professor at Tsinghua University in China.

Art Centre Nabi works in the field of media art and culture with a special interest in locative media. The Centre provides galleries, a media lounge, study rooms, and archive/library facilities.

In addition, it organises seminars, conferences, and awards such as “Upgrade! Seoul”, the pre-eminent gathering of new media artists in Korea; “Urban Play and Locative Media”, an international workshop to initiate cultural and artistic projects for the area of Myung Dong; the Nabi-Unesco Digital Arts Award on 'Urban Creative Media'; the Resfest Mobile Art Competition; and Project I, a project which enables disadvantaged children to engage in interactive media conversations.