Joo-mee Paik

Joo-mee Paik

Assistant Professor

Media Art, Digital Art, Interactive Art, VR,

Joo-mee Paik, Ph.D. is an assistant professor of Computer Game Design at George Mason University Korea. She is an artist and educator with over twenty years of experience exploring the intersections of art, philosophy, and technology. She began her artistic practice with traditional media and earned her BFA in Western Painting from Seoul National University, where she developed an early interest in video art. She later completed an MFA in Electronic Integrated Arts at Alfred University, focusing on time-based and interactive digital media. In 2022, she received her PhD in Art Technology from Sogang University with the dissertation Embodied Future: Real-Time Generation of Future Video Using Deep Learning Methods for Interactive Media Art.

Prior to joining Mason Korea, she taught a wide range of courses—including Drawing, Digital Imaging and Video, Motion Graphics, Interactive Art, and Physical Computing—at multiple institutions. She has held seven solo exhibitions, including Entangled Timescape (2025), which presented her new VR artworks, and has participated in numerous group exhibitions both in Korea and internationally.

Selected Publications

SOLO EXHIBITIONS                                                    

2025 Entangled Timescape, Loft Ground, Seoul, Korea

2018  Ingredients for Self Portrait: Others, Particles, Time, Gallery Dos, Seoul, Korea

2010 Almost Here, Songeun Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2009 The Key Beyond the Keyhole, Art Space EACT, Seongnam, Korea

2007 Two from One, Gallery Space Achim, Seoul, Korea

2006 Moments of a Moment, Shinhan Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2005 Before After and After Before, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT, USA

 

Thesis

Paik, Joo-mee. "Embodied Future: Real-Time Generation of Future Video Using Deep Learning Methods for Interactive Media Art." Doctoral Thesis, Songang University, 2022

Paik, Joo-mee. “A Study of the Ontological Perspectives and Aesthetic Possibilities of Media Art Self-Portraits - Based on the Author’s Work.” Journal of the Korean Society of Media & Arts, 18(2), pp.5-18,  Feb. 2020.

 

 

Education

Ph.D. Art Technology, Sogang University

M.F.A. Electronic Integrated Arts,  Alfred University

B.F.A. Painting, Seoul National University