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Hyowon Shim
Curriculum Vitae
Statement
I am a media studies researcher and experimental writer based in Seoul, Korea, with a doctorate in Comparative Literature, working across post-anthropocentrism and media ecology. My practice lies at the intersection of the conceptual and the sensorial, where writing becomes a medium for weaving embodied thought and speculative resonance.

My work engages with transdisciplinary inquiry and corporeal attention as core research methods, drawing from both contemporary media studies and the lived textures of situated East Asian sensibilities.
Affiliation
Research Professor, Institute of Media Arts
Yonsei University, South Korea
Lecturer
Korea National University of Arts / Yonsei Graduate School
Research Grants & Honors
Ethics of Hands in Contemporary Art Practice
Culture & Art Research Grant, AmorePacific Foundation, 2025
The Anthropocene and Visuality: Theories and Practices of Virtual Reality
Research Professor Fellowship (A), NRF Korea, 2021–26
New Media Materialism of Rare Earths and E-waste
Postdoctoral Fellowship, NRF Korea, 2019–20
Journal Articles
Comparative Literature, vol.96, Korea Comparative Literature Association, pp.429–458, 2025
Visual Culture, no.45, Korean Association For Visual Culture, pp.99–126, 2024
Comparative Literature, vol.80, no.90, pp.155–180, 2023
The Journal of East-West Comparative Literature, vol.62, pp.293–314, 2022
The Journal of East-West Comparative Literature, vol.58, pp.151–172, 2021
Korean Art Research, no.34, pp.309–318, 2021
Journal of Korean Society of Media and Arts (Contents Plus), vol.19, no.1, pp.59–71, 2021
The Journal of East-West Comparative Literature, vol.51, pp.217–239, 2020
Comparative Literature, vol.76, pp.121–151, 2018
Journal of Korean Society of Media and Arts (Contents Plus), vol.15, no.2, pp.5–21, 2017
Books
Author
Combooks, 2025
"Deep Matter: Gazing into the Abyss" in Minibus, Oort Cloud, Fluttering Pages
Arts Council Korea, ARKO Art Center, 2025 (co-author, English version)
"Becoming Earthworms, making the Soft Architecture" in Sseulm vol.19
2024 (co-author)
Ed. Unmakelab, Mediabus, 2024 (co-author)
"Media History / History of Media Theory" in Intersection Vol 2: The life of Materials
2022 (co-author)
Translation
Jucan, Ioana B., Jussi Parikka, and Rebecca Schneider, Remain
Trans. Jiwon Yu and Hyowon Shim, Combooks, 2026 (co-translation, forthcoming)
Parikka, Jussi. Geology of Media
Hyunsilmunhwa, 2025
Higonnet, Margaret R. "Comparative Literature on the Feminist Edge" in Bernheimer Report
Purunsasang, 2022
Demos, T.J. "Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today" in Dear Amazon: On Anthropocene
Ilmin Museum of Art and Hyunsilmunhwa
Demos, T.J. "Blackout: The Necropolitics of Extraction" and "Worlds to Come" in What Do Museums Change?: Art and Democracy
Contemporary Art; Museum of Art, 2020
Shanken, Edward A. "Deus ex Poiesis" and Parikka, Jussi. "Thousands of Tiny Futures" in Embracing the Parallel Worlds
Seoul Museum of Art and Hyunsilmunhwa, 2018
Exhibitions & Practice-Based Works
"Dental Critics" — Group Exhibition
Wreath & Towel, Seoul. May 24 – July 23, 2025
"Text Pairing" — Group Exhibition
In the Paper, Seoul. March 27 – April 17, 2025
2024 Unlimited Edition — Seoul Art Book Fair
SeMA Buk-Seoul, November 15–17, 2024
"Text Movement: A Field/Shelf of Flowing Knowledge"
Wreath & Towel, Seoul. July 19 – Dec 31, 2024
Selected Presentations
Conferences
The Virtual World Fascinated by Plants
2024 Fall Conference, Korea Association of Visual Culture. Seoul, June 2024
Our Belief in Bodies Experiencing the Virtual World
XXIII ICLA Congress, Tbilisi, Georgia (Hybrid), 2022
Chronophotography and Its Transformation of Reality
XXII ICLA Congress, University of Macau, 2019
Forums & Invited Seminars
Ethics of Hands: Recycling and Reconstruction in Contemporary Art Practices
Non-human Agency Research Group Seminar, KIAS, October 2025
Book Talk with the Translator: Jussi Parikka, Geology of Media
YPC Space, July 2025
Post-Anthropocentrism — Technical Media — Body Media
Summer School of ALT Cinema & Media Art Festival, August 2022