ABOUT
BIOGRAPHY
Carole Kim is a media artist with a focus on video projection for multi-media installation, performance and photography. She has presented her work in diverse contexts including experimental art, music, dance, theater and site-specific installation. As someone who works extensively with technology, it is where technology meets up with the human, physical, tangible world that interests her most. She is fascinated by the merging of physical space, the body and the illusionistic world of the moving image. Through this juxtaposition she plays with relative scale, dimensionality and how matter can appear to commingle. New composite worlds unfold where one is left to contemplate, “What is this new world I am observing?” “How does it make me think differently about my relationship to the physical world?”
At the onset of the pandemic, Carole Kim compressed her installations to fit beneath her kitchen table. This intimate “venue” has proven to be an ideal site for live connection from remote locations for collaborative performance. Live performances within these micro-projection installations have been presented by NowNet Arts Lab, Montalvo Art Center, echoreaume-Vienna, Optosonic [e] Lab, Earth Day Art Model Festival, SEAMUS Festival, CURRENTS New Media Festival, New Music Gathering Festival, Australasian Computer Music Conference 2021. The audio-visual ensemble that Kim founded called Dilate Ensemble was selected for a funded residency with ThoughtWorks and CounterPulse Theater in San Francisco for 2021-22.
Her work has been supported by the Irvine Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Center for Cultural Innovation, MAP fund, City of Los Angeles, Pasadena Arts Council, The Music Center, Durfee Foundation, REDCAT, University of California Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA), The Getty Center, Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound (SASSAS) ,Dublab, Newtown, Turbulence.org, CalArts, and The Center for Experiments in Art, Information, and Technology. She was selected as a recipient of a 2013 COLA Fellowship, 2014 CCI Investing in Artists Grant, 2015 Metabolic Studio Chora Council Grant and a 2015 CHIME Grant. In 2019, she was awarded a residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts. She was also the first artist-in-residence (March 2018- October 2019) at Descanso Gardens working on a year-long project that culminated in a solo exhibition and site-specific performances in the gardens from July-October 2019.
MFA CalArts (Integrated Media/Film/Video)
MFA Cranbrook Academy of Art (Printmaking)
BA Brown University (Studio Art)
2D
I am grateful for an ever-expanding network of collaborators from every discipline who embrace experimentation and are sensitive to the entirety of an experience within an environment. For the pieces that I direct, I strive to establish a carefully considered framework , conceptually and structurally, that will allow for the space and freedom for my collaborators to fully insert themselves and do what they do best. I try to strike that balance where there's enough direction for a piece to hold its shape but open-ended enough to encourage the maximum amount of exploration and unpredictable discovery.
PLEASE NOTE: This list continues to grow with each project and may not always be complete or up-to-date.
SOUND/MUSIC
Yogos Adamis
Scott Amendola
Bob Bellerue
Joe Berardi
Alicia Beyer
Carla Bozulich
Ellen Burr
Archie Carey
Leticia Castaneda
Scott Cazan
Paul Chavez
Alex Cline
Nels Cline
Dan Clucas
Phil Curtis
Gloria Damijan
Michael Dessen
Aaron Drake
Mark Dresser
dublab
Carmina Escobar
Harris Eisenstadt
Tim Feeney
Christopher Garcia
Vinny Golia
Tony Green
Emily Hay
Robert Hilton
Motoko Honda
Lewis Keller
Paul Kikuchi
Kadet Kuhne
Catherine Lamb
Dohee Lee
John Lindberg
Makoto Taiko Ensemble
Jorge Martin
Kozue Matsumoto
Scott L. Miller
Luisa Muhr
Toshi Nakamura
Odeya Nini
Albert Ortega
Jon Raskin
Scot Ray
Vicki Ray
Hahn Rowe
Steve Roden
Eli Rosenkim
Sara Schoenbeck
Anthony Shadduck
Patrick Shiroishi
Breeze Smith
Wadada Leo Smith
GE Stinson
Cassia Streb
Mark Trayle
Kira Vollman
Theresa Wong
Pamela Z
DANCE
Amy Dore
Carmela Hermann Dietrich
Liz Hoefner
Hyoin Jun
Michelle Shiu-lin Lai
Shuriu Lo
Sarah Leddy
Maggie Lee
Becca Lemme
Dani Lunn
Kate Morales
Nguyen Nguyen
Stephanie Nugent
Oguri
Freya Björg Olafson
Paula Present
Shel Wagner Rasch
Deborah Rosen
Michael Sakamoto
Cheryl Banks Smith
Morleigh Steinberg
Roxanne Steinberg
Stephanie Zalatel
ARTISTS
Mirabelle Ang
Rebecca Baron
Lynne Berman
Beth Bird
Ursula Brookbank
Brenda Bynum
Maile Colbert
Laura Cooper
Valerie Daval
Jesse Gilbert
Alicia Gorecki
James Griffith
Kio Griffith
Moses Hacmon
Adele Horn
Lyn Horton
Bo Sul Kim
Cathy Lightfoot
Eve Luckring
Kaoru Mansour
Christine Marie
Pablo Molina
Apolonia Panagopoulos
Astra Price
Theo Rasmussen
Sandro Rosario
Alise Spinella
Marie Thibeault
TLAXCALA Artist Collective, Mexico
Lisa Tchakmakian
Carrie Ungerman
WRITERS
Adam Rosenkranz
Douglas Kearney
Mady Schutzman
Flint