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Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty...

"Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty is the first journal dedicated to the critical examination of the fashion and the beauty systems as symbolic spaces of production and reproduction, representation and communication of artifacts, meanings, social practices, and visual or textual renditions of cloth, clothing and appearance." The first issue is free:...
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Sony VR Goggles .....

Sony's chic VR Goggles .. I would love to have these for our VR projects. Too bad they aren't planning on making it into a product .. yet .....
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Banyan Tree Project...

Our GRISTLE Collective's first project is online: http://www.banyantreeproject.net. GRISTLE Collective is Dr. Steven J. Barnes, Meehae Song, Tyler Fox, Debra-Ann Barnes and fabulous Dr. Diane...
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Professor Margaret Dolinsky is here!...

We are honored to have Prof. Margaret Dolinsky paying us a visit from Indiana. She is currently an Associate Professor and Research Scientist at the H.R. Hope School of Fine Arts at Indiana University Bloomington and she is the prominent artist using VR and the CAVE as her medium. She has been creating interactive art experiences since 1995 that have exhibited at SIGGRAPH, Ars Electronica, ICC in Tokyo, and the Walker Art Center. Her artwork is totally rad and she’s such a sweet person. Here is the link to her work: http://dolinsky.fa.indiana.edu/. She’s...
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First dab at Transforming Pain Group Vid...

Here is a video Diane and I shot (thanks to all our voices, models and the video edit) the last week .. rough v.1....
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Conferences, conferences, conferences...

I’ve been traveling to conferences the last couple of months with Prof. Gromala. We’ve been to the woo woo conference (http://www.scienceandnonduality.com), to IS&T/SPIE (http://spie.org/electronic-imaging.xml) and the CAA (http://conference.collegeart.org/2010/) conference. We will be traveling across Canada in the near future (Banff, Ottawa, Ontario) and we will also be going to RUHR in August for ISEA2010 (http://www.isea2010ruhr.org/)!! Woot! I will try to be more diligent about posting what’s going...
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Vancouver Sun 13/10/09...

Our virtual meditation team (Dr. Diane Gromala, Dr. Steven J. Barnes, Meehae Song, Not photographed: Dr. Chris Shaw, Dr. Pam Squire & Banafsheh Zokai) is in the Vancouver Sun and other national media today (National Post, Canada.com, Ottawa Citizen, Calgary Herald, Nanaimo Daily News). You can view the article here: Vancouver Sun Article. The photograph is actually of the sitting...
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hello. 안녕하세요...

It took some time but it’s finally up .. welcome to my official homepage. I hope to share with you my research, projects, ideas, obsessions as I journey through my Ph.D at SIAT, SFU. I decided to start this post with an image I created couple of months ago. It was inspired by my little girl’s traditional Korean dress she wore for her 1st birthday celebration. I interspersed the different color bars with images from my projects. This is just the beginning. It will be developed into an interactive piece when I find the...