Curator, Art Centre Nabi (Seoul)

Curator, Art Centre Nabi (Seoul)

Suhjung Hur is one of Korea’s most influential “digital media arts” power-brokers.

As one of the art directors at the world-famous Art Center Nabi, Hur has been curating and organizing exhibitions, workshops and live events since 2002.

Hur’s interests in the inter-relationships between media technologies and urban environment led her to organize the international workshop ‘Urban Play and Locative Media’ and the guest-curated exhibition in Triad Gallery, Urban Sensorium, which explores the multi-sensory experience in urban environment enhanced and intervened via new media technologies.

Suhjung is also the artistic director for P.Art.y 2007 (www.party2007.net), a festival for media arts and digital culture organized by Art Center Nabi.

Hur was a co-founder and editor for art quarterly Stray Dog in Los Angeles, and has is well-known for her opinion pieces in leading art and architecture magazines in Korea. She founded the experimental sound-visual performance series, ‘alt sound’, and was also the founder of “Upgrade! Seoul”.

Suhjung was a juror and speaker for many media arts events including Rhizome Commission and the Nam-June Paik Museum workshop.