Yun Jeong Bae is a multi-media artist, from Korea, and studied at the School of the Art Institutie of Chicago for BFA and MFA programs. She explored painting, drawing, video, and digital animation, also expanded her interest on researching virtual environment and new media arena during the academic practice time. She works on making experimental animation through multimedia method, and she enjoy playing with new media work through understanding of computer language as well.

The main narrative of her works are inspired by observing human beings in diversified circumstances, and tracing the ironic relationships among the nature, high technology and solitary society. From those inquiries, she spreads out her imaginations as her own visual languages, and she likes telling her stories at virtual spaces as an another meaningful platform of creativity.

Education

 
2006 - 2008 Master of Fine Arts, Art and Technology Studies Department
Emphasis in Animation and New Media Installation
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
2002 - 2005  Bachelor of Fine Arts, Art and Technology Studies Department
Emphasis in Animation, Video, Painting and Drawing
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
2004 Winter Study Trip, Mexico
Visited artists’ studios, art academies and galleries in Mexico,
Course in water-based printmaking.
1994 - 1998 Bachelor of Accounting
Catholic University of Daegu, Gyeongbuk, Korea
   
Exhibitions
 
May.2008 "atmospherics" Group Show
Kasia Kay Gallery, Chicago, IL
Apr.2008 MFA Thesis Show
Gallery 2, Chicago, IL
Oct.2007 Around The Coyote 2007 Fall Festival
Flat Iron Building, Chicago, IL
Aug.2007 Lollapalooza: Music Festival
Grant Park, Chicago, IL
Sep.2006 EXiS 2006: Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul
Announce the Selections for Non-Competition
Seoul Art Cinema and spaceCell, Seoul, Korea
May.2006 Her Shorts: Women’s International Video Festival and Symposium
Dinnerware Contemporary Art Gallery, Tucson, AZ
May.2006 BFA Time Arts Event, Thesis Exhibition, SAIC
Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State St, Chicago, IL
Sep.2004 “iVamonos!” Group Exhibition
LG Space, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Apr.2003 First Year Students Group Exhibition
Siragusa Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Residence Hall, Chicago, IL
   
Work Experience
 
2009 - Present Instructor, Sogang University, South Korea
Computer Animation/Graphics at Game Education Center
2008 - 2009 Instructor, Westwood College, Chicago O'hare Campus
Animation/Visual Communication/Graphic Design Program
2008 Instuctor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
First-Year Program: SAIC Wired Class
2008 Teaching Assistant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Painting in the Virtual Envrionment (3D Maya)
2007 Teaching Assistant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Fundamentals of Art with Technology
2007 ExTV, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Webmaster
2007  Internship, WLS-TV ABC Channel 7
Graphics Department
2006 - 2007 Teaching Assistant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
First-Year Program: SAIC Wired Class
2004  Resfest, Digital Film Festival 2004, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Volunteer
2000 Samsung SDS Campus, Seoul, Korea
Computer Education Administrator
   
Awards
 
2007 Second Year International Graduate Scholarship, SAIC
   
Skills Maya, After Effects, Photoshop, HTML, CSS, Dreamweaver, Flash, Processing,
Premier, Max/MSP