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Lisa Park (born 1987[ citation needed ]) is a Korean-American artist and lecturer in the Fine Arts & Design department of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania.
Lisa Park was born in Boston, United States, but spent her formative years being raised in Seoul, South Korea [1] .She earned her BFA degree from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Additionally, she holds a MPS degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts. [2] Parks work has been featured in many magazines and newspapers. Her work earned her the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). Parks' was often referred to as a creative imaginative child, which led to her artistic career. While her parents are not artists they were always supportive of Park. [3] Park is a self-taught artist, through trial and error and many years of school and finding her style she is the artist we see today. Her ability to teach herself how to do these intricate styles is what makes her work so impressive. At only 38, she has found a way to create many pieces of art and to make them unique to herself.
Her works include "Eunoia" and "Eunoia II," which are interactive installation and performance pieces where the artist utilizes a brainwave sensor to visualize real-time pools of water based on her thoughts.
Park "has been working with biofeedback devices (heart rate sensors, commercial brainwave headsets) to display auditory and visual representations of physiological measurements. These performances explored the possibilities of self-monitoring her physical and psychological states." [4] This was done by using electroencephalography (E.E.G.) data to create sound-waves which were pushed through pools of water, causing them to ripple. Park sat in the center of the pools as this occurred. [5]
For Eunoia, Park separated the E.E.G. data into five emotions, each of which fed into one of five pools of water. For Eunoia II, she expanded her conception of brain activity to cover forty-eight pools of water, matching the forty-eight emotions described by philosopher Baruch Spinoza. [6] While Park strove to control her emotions in Eunoia in order to keep the pools of water still, she changed her approach in Eunoia II to focus on expressing emotions. [7]
Another installation piece, titled "Blooming," was commissioned by Nokia Bell Labs and supported by New Museum's NEW INC. This interactive audiovisual installation features a life-sized digital cherry blossom tree that blossoms in real-time in response to participants' skin-to-skin contact.[ citation needed ]
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Park was the recipient of a 2014 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship [41]
Park was selected to be an artist-in-residence at Nokia Bell Labs in 2017 as part of their Experiments in Art and Technology residency program with NEW INC. [42] [43] [44] As part of the residency, Park was commissioned to create, "Blooming," which was featured in the exhibition Only Human at Mana Contemporary in May 2017 [45] [22] Blooming was an official selection of SXSW Art in 2019. [19]
Since the Fall semester of 2023, Park has been a lecturer within the Fine Arts and Design department at the University of Pennsylvania. [46]
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