Jihyo Eom

Jihyo Eom appropriates and twists the interfaces that smoothly steer us in a single direction, turning them into rough, resistant ones. She does so by reassembling the familiar grammars of contemporary media (the internet, social media, apps, and games) through game engines and physical structures. Also working as a commercial director, she often draws on the contradictions and tensions of being both a producer and a consumer of media content. She embraced digital media as a profession out of love for its expressive and expansive potential, yet she has also deeply experienced the lethargy and isolation brought on by its immersiveness and addictiveness. Recognizing this as a social condition rather than a private one, she approaches her work with empathy and a sense of responsibility.

This affection for media, and fatigue with it, lead to work that explores and reimagines the space between the two. Her game and installation somewhere4u.net (2023) deals with objects of nostalgia that now exist only as big data, experimenting through gameplay with ways of returning memory to the individual. A Warp to Remember (2024) questions the outsourcing of memory while exploring whether the hazy times and spaces of recollection can be reconstructed with AI. Beginning with Bardo (2025), she has turned a critical eye on a media ecosystem that moves beyond dependence into immersion and addiction, bringing materiality and the body more actively into her work. Likening states of immersion and addiction to the trance and ecstasy of spirit possession, she investigates where media, understood as a medium in the shamanic sense, might take us.

Solo Exhibitions2025 Bardo, BeF Storage, Seoul, Korea

Group Exhibitions & Screenings2026 Gwangyang International Media Art Festival, 365 Center, Gwangyang, Korea
2026 Scroll and Backspace, the Unloaded Next, Seoul Intl. Cinema & Media Art festival(NeMAF), KT&G Sansangmadang, Seoul, Korea
2026 Arts Korea Lab, Sónar+D, Llotja de Mar, Barcelona, Spain
2026 Experimental Film and Video 2026, CICA Museum, Gimpo, Korea
2026 G.MAP New Wave, Gwangju Media Art Platform(G.MAP), Gwangju, Korea
2025 5th Seongbuk Youth Film Festival(SBFF)(A Warp to Remember), Seoul, Korea
2024 ASYAAF, Former National Theater Baek Sung-hee & Jang Min-ho Theater, Seoul, Korea
2023 Playing with Death, Korea National University of Arts Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2022 괄호를 열고+, Seogyo Arts Experimental Center, Seoul, Korea
2018 Pecha Cucha Link Up Project 3, Haekhwatang, Seoul, Korea

Awards & Selections2026 Finalist, Seoul Intl. Cinema & Media Art festival(NeMAF), Korea
2026 Arts Korea Lab Global Exchange & Distribution Support (Sónar+D)
2025 Selected as Young Convergence Artist, G.MAP 《New Wave》, Gwangju Media Art Platform, Korea
2025 Shortlisted, 5th Seongbuk Youth Film Festival Short Film Competition
2025 ARKO Crowdfunding Support Program, Arts Council Korea (ARKO)
2025 Selected for BeF_Storage Exhibition Program, Seodaemun-gu Youth BeF, Korea
2024 Selected, ASYAAF Asia Youth Artist Art Festival, Chosun Ilbo, Korea

Residency2026 Gwangyang Media Art Residence, Gwangyang, Korea

Projects (selected)2024 An Sang Wook 12 Sounds Live Video Projection, Art Korea Lab, Seoul, Korea
2022 The Objects of Memory Media Art, Jeongok Prehistory Museum, Yeoncheon, Korea
2020 Jiseon Shin ARTourism PM, Design & Development, Insa Art Space, Seoul, Korea
2019-2022 Coreyah Clap & Applause Interactive VJ, Mullae Arts Factory, Seoul, Korea, Festival International Cervantino, Mexico, and more.

Education 2018-2023 MFA in Multimedia, School of Film, TV & Multimedia, Korea National University of Arts, Seoul, Korea
2012-2017 BA in Media & Communication, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea — Double Major in Integrated Design