SangJun Yoo is an artist and researcher whose work investigates perception as a relational and temporal process. He constructs visual, interactive, computational, and spatial systems in which human, environmental, infrastructural, and technological conditions encounter one another, examining how perceptual relations are structured, conditioned, and transformed as those conditions change.

Working across installation, moving image, spatial sound, interaction, and custom computational systems, his practice brings artistic inquiry, design methodology, and technological experimentation into the same research process. Design organizes relations and conditions of encounter; computation makes them operational and temporal; and installation makes them available to embodied and contingent interpretation.

Yoo holds a Ph.D. in Digital Media and Experimental Arts from the University of Washington.

 

Areas of Interest

Yoo’s research asks how perception forms through relations and changing conditions. Seeing and being seen take shape in perceptual loops among bodies, environments, and technologies. Perception is distributed across them, and light, architecture, and screens become the fields in which this happens. The inquiry began in interactive systems and mediated experiences, where a viewer’s presence determined what a system returned.

His works construct spatiotemporal structures in which time is translated into spatial experience and space into time. Velocity, delay, and asynchrony reorient what is perceived. Technological and bodily rhythms come to affect one another. He composes these encounters by arranging interfaces and sequence in space.

He investigates mediated temporality and distributed perception, and how corporeal and computational perceivers each sense the world at their own pace.