Isaac Kim

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Isaac Kim (He/Him) is a technologist, artist, and multi-instrumentalist primarily working in sound, video, sculpture, and installation. His work explores aspects of agency in response to an increasingly technologically enmeshed world. He has shown work both online and in alternative exhibition spaces in Maine and Colorado, as well as institutions such as the Boulder Museum, the ATLAS Institute, and the Portland Symphony Orchestra. He received his Bachelor of the Arts at the University of Colorado, Boulder, in Mathematics, as well as a Master in Engineering in Creative Technology and Design with a concentration in computer music composition.


I have a technology-focused and multidisciplinary art practice that involves sound, video, sculpture and installation. I am interested in exploring human experience through examining our growing intersections with technology. I call this growing intersection the “cyborg as a hyperobject.” I investigate this idea through ideas of speculative realism and hypersition through cyber occultic aesthetics.

I draw inspiration from Nam June Paik, Jon Rafman, Pierre Huyghe, and Mire Lee, as well as contemporary music movements such as Deconstructed Club, spearheaded by artists such as SOPHIE, ARCA, and Iglooghost. I speculate about the future through looking at the technology in the present. I make use of visceral industrial cybernetic aesthetics informed by the cultural milieu of the internet. I make use of appropriated media, electronics, and fabrication techniques, such as laser cutting and 3D printing to construct my object based works.

I want my work to be received as moments of inquiry examining aspects of the technologically entwined human or cyborg condition. I feel that there is a necessary conversation highlighting the philosophical implications of working with technology in art rather than the novelty of the technology itself. In this sense I am not so much working with technology as much as using what is available as material.