Ms. Juri HWANG

Ms. Juri HWANG
Research Assistant Professor

jurihwang@hkbu.edu.hk
Education: 
PhD Candidate, Media Arts + Practice, University of Southern California ; MFA in Film Production, University of Southern California

Area of Interests: 
Embodied Media, Media Archeology, Medical Humanities, Cross-Modal Perception, Neuroscience of Hearing, Voice, Arts-based Intervention for Social Change

Major Highlights: 
SoundToy, Best Artwork Award, HCN Segil Symposium & SoCal Hearing Conference
Here, My Voice 1,2 and 3, Arts in Action Grant, University of Southern California
SoundToy, Allen Clair Nelson Innovation Award, University of Southern California 
Somatic Echo, Ars Electronica Festival 2017, Honorary Mention Award, Digital Music and Sound Art, Linz, Austria
Annenberg Fellowship, University of Southern California

 

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Research

Here, My Voice 3, Arts-based intervention to improve voice confidence in hard of hearing people. USC School of Cinematic Arts, Bionic Ear Lab, HLAA – LA, PI
Here, My Voice 2 Voice Lessons Pilot, Clinical Trial NCT05336747, PI
Here, My Voice 2, Arts-based intervention to improve voice confidence in hard of hearing people. USC School of Cinematic Arts, Bionic Ear Lab, HLAA – LA, PI
Here, My Voice, Arts-based intervention to improve voice confidence in hard of hearing people. USC School of Cinematic Arts, Bionic Ear Lab, HLAA – LA, PI
Music Appreciation and Hearing Loss, USC Bionic Ear Lab. Research Associate
Multisensory Integration between Touch and Audition in Cochlear Implant Users, USC Bionic Ear Lab, PI
Sound Toy: Training System for Spatial Hearing in Young Children with Hearing Impairment Using Distributed Multi Channel Speakers, USC Bionic Ear Lab, PI
Nightfield: A Multisensory Environment to Investigate the Correlation of Memory Images and Sonic/Haptic Stimulation, USC Interdisciplinary Media Arts and Practice PHD Program, PI
Sonic AR: Directional Hearing through Bone-conducted and Air-Conducted Sound for Sonic Augmented Reality (AR) with Wearable 4 Channel Bone-conduction Headset, USC Interdisciplinary Media Arts and Practice PHD Program, Co-PI
Spatial Hearing Training for People with Bilateral Cochlear Implant with Real World Sounds and HRTF Convolution, USC Bionic Ear Lab, Co-PI
VR Rehab System for People with Parkinson’s at USC Creative Media and Behavioral Health Center, Research Participant
Somatic Echo: Study of Sonic Perception through Vibrational Stimulation of the Head with Multichannel Bone-conduction Speaker Array, USC Interdisciplinary Media Arts and Practice PHD Program, PI
Longitudinal Observational Study of Auditory Brainstem Implant in Children, USC Caruso Family Center for Childhood Communication, PI

 

Exhibitions

SoundToy, HCN Seil Symposium & SoCal Hearing Conference
Scurry Along, Home Bunny – SoundToy Game Modules, Tokyo University of Arts, Tokyo, Japan 
Nightfield, Arts of the Future Exhibition, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
Scurry Along, A SoundToy Experience, interactive toy for the training of spatial hearing in hearing impaired children; Tokyo Game Show, Tokyo, Japan
Somatic Echo and Nightfield, interactive sound installations; Currents New Media Festival, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
SoundToy for EJ, sound installation, iMAPpening, USC, Los Angeles, USA
Somatic Echo, sound installation, Ars Electronica Festival, OK Center, Linz Austria
Weeping Bamboo – Resonances from Within, interactive installation and augmented reality sound walk, ISEA 2017, Manizales, Colombia
Nightfield, sound installation, SCA Gallery, USC, Los Angeles, USA
6th and San Pedro, a Skidrow Sound Diary, audio-visual installation, iMAPpening, USC, Los Angeles
Title TK, interactive installation, Hirshland Exhibition Gallery, Cornell University, USA
Title TK, interactive installation, ésam, Caen/Cherbourg, France
Somatic Echo, sound installation, Beall Center, Irvine CA, USA
Somatic Echo, sound installation, iMAPpening, USC, Los Angeles, USA
Title TK, interactive installation, Gallery Michele Didier, Paris, France
Samplings, sound installation, and Mnemophone, sound art performance, Sound Stage 4, Los Angeles, USA
Samplings, sound installation, SCA Gallery, USC, Los Angeles, USA
The Night Journey, art-game installation, Museum of the Moving Image, New York, USA
Venture to the Interior / Vorstoss ins Innere, interactive installation, 8th Annual Los Angeles 3D Movie Festival, Los Angeles, USA
Venture to the Interior / Vorstoss ins Innere, interactive installation A+D Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, USA
The Night Journey, art-game installation, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO, USA
Venture to the Interior / Vorstoss ins Innere, interactive installation, Co-Design Lab, USC, Los Angeles, USA
Bleeding Through – Layers of Los Angeles, interactive installation, Retrospective “Imagining Media”, Center for Art and Media (ZKM), Karlsruhe, Germany
Bleeding Through – Layers of Los Angeles, interactive installation, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (LACDA), Los Angeles, USA
A Tale of Two MAO Genes, interactive application, National Science Council’s Annual Conference 2008, Taipei, Taiwan
Title TK, interactive DVD Rom, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France
A Tale of Two MAO Genes, interactive application, National Science Council’s Annual Conference 2007, Taipei, Taiwan
Title TK, interactive DVD Rom, Galerie Nationale Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
Bleeding Through – Layers of Los Angeles, interactive installation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
A Tale of Two MAO Genes, interactive application, National Science Council’s Annual Conference 2006, Taipei, Taiwan
A Tale of Two MAO Genes, interactive application, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China
Bleeding Through – Layers of Los Angeles, interactive installation, Weingart Galleries, Occidental College, Los Angeles, USA
Bleeding Through – Layers of Los Angeles, interactive installation, Push Conference on “The Future,” Minneapolis, MN, USA
Bleeding Through – Layers of Los Angeles, interactive installation, Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster, England
Three Winters in the Sun – Einstein in California, interactive installation, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, USA
Bleeding Through – Layers of Los Angeles, interactive installation, Festival “transmediale 04”, Berlin, Germany
Bleeding Through – Layers of Los Angeles, interactive installation, Exhibition “Future Cinema”, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Bleeding Through – Layers of Los Angeles, interactive installation, Festival “Ars Electronica”, Linz, Austria
Bleeding Through – Layers of Los Angeles, interactive installation, Exhibition “Future Cinema”, Center for Art and Media (ZKM), Karlsruhe, Germany

 

Publications

Andreas Kratky, Juri Hwang: “Inner Voices: Reflexive Augmented Listening”, In: Chen, J.Y.C., Fragomeni, G. (eds) Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality. HCII 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14027. Springer, Cham., pages 233-252
Susan Bissmeyer, Juri Hwang, Raymond L Goldsworthy: “Pitch perception conveyed by cochlear implant and tactile stimulation”, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Juri Hwang, Andreas Kratky: “Weeping Bamboo: Resonances from Within – Exploring Indigenous Memory." In: Julián Jaramillo Arango, Andrés Bubarno, Felipe César Londoño & G. Mauricio Mejía, Manizales Bio-Creation and Peace, 2017, pages 352-357
Juri Hwang, Andreas Kratky: “Museum Machine – or a Database Approach to the Representation of Space” in Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA 2011), 2012
Juri Hwang, Andreas Kratky: “Konservierte Zeit” in Ulrich Moritz, Agnieszka Pufelska, Hanns Zischler (eds.): Vorstoss ins Innere, pp. 111-119; Alpheus Verlag, Berlin, 2010
Juri Hwang, Andreas Kratky: “Venture to Interior– Virtual Object Lessons” in Francisco Ficarra (ed.): Quality and Communicability for Interactive Hypermedia Systems: Concepts and Practices for Design, pp. 19-35, IGI Global, Hershey, USA, 2010

 

Media Publications

Venture to the Interior, Alpheus Verlag, Berlin, Germany (Book, DVD), Co-director, Editor, Sound Design
Tales of Two MAO Genes, Labyrinth Project (DVD), Editor, Sound Design
Title TK, Anarchive, University of Paris 1, Les Presses du Réel, France, Sound Design (Book, DVD)
Three Winters in the Sun: Einstein in California, Labyrinth Project, Production Manager, Sound Design, Sound Production (DVD)
Bleeding Through - Layers of Los Angeles: 1920-1986, Labyrinth Project/ZKM, Hatje-Cantz Verlag, Germany, Researcher, Sound Design, Production Manager (DVD)

 

Reviews

Elisa Huang: “Inclusive Student Projects Make Space for Marginalized Communities”, USC TrojanFamily, Autumn 2021         
Gabriela Campos: “2019: The year in photos”, The New Mexican, 2019
Michael Abatemarco: “Radar Love”, Pasatiempo June 2019               
Megan Bennett: “Currents is back, showing the evolution of technology”, Albuquerque Journal, June 2019
Aurelio Cianciotta: “Somatic Echo, spatial bone conduction”, Neural Magazine, July 2018
Mateja Lot: “Conversation with Juri Hwang, Media Artist and Researcher”, Glasna, 2017/2018
Natalie Pashaie and Keala Rusher: “Nightfield integrates mechanics with art”, USC DailyTrojan, March 2017