
Computational Arts
Sihwa Park
Assistant Professor
shpark@yorku.ca
Education
BS in Computer Engineering (Kyungpook National University)
MS in Graduate School of Culture Technology (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
PhD in Media Arts and Technology (University of California Santa Barbara)
Biography
Sihwa Park is a sound interaction designer, media artist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Computational Arts at York University. His research interest lies in interactive audiovisual software art, exploring the possibilities of computational algorithms and emerging technologies in designing novel audiovisual interfaces. His art practice focuses on representing the relationship between humans and machines entwined with data and algorithms, employing interdisciplinary approaches spanning from data visualization/sonification, generative art and machine learning. His current work explores the creative and critical use of ML/AI for generative audiovisual art and interactive installation art.
His work has been presented at international venues including the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), the IEEE VIS Arts Program (VISAP), SIGGRAPH, the SIGGRAPH Asia Art Gallery, the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), the Ars Electronica Festival and the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Workshop on Machine Learning for Creativity and Design.