Sihwa Park is a sound
interaction designer, media artist and Assistant Professor in the Department of
Computational Arts at York University. His art practice explores the intricate relationship
between humans and machines, entangled with data and algorithms, through interdisciplinary
approaches encompassing data visualization/sonification, generative art, and machine
learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI). Park’s research focuses on interactive audiovisual software art, investigating
how computational algorithms and emerging technologies can be used for designing
novel audiovisual interfaces and experiences. As a Research-Enhanced Faculty member
within the Connected Minds program at York University, his work currently delves
into the creative and critical use of ML/AI in interactive, generative
audiovisual art.
Park’s work has been showcased
at numerous international venues, including Ars Electronica Festival, ISEA, the SIGGRAPH Art Gallery, the SIGGRAPH Asia Art Gallery, the IEEE VIS Arts
Program, ACM CHI, NIME, the NeurIPS
Workshop on Machine Learning for Creativity and Design, the CVPR AI
Art Gallery, the ACM C&C XAIxArts Workshop, AIMC, and ICMC.
He holds a Ph.D. in Media Arts
and Technology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he was a
Chancellor’s Fellowship recipient from 2016-21. He also earned a Master of
Science in Graduate School of Culture Technology from the Korea Advanced
Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST).