Biography
Unknown Kim is a sound artist and media researcher based in The Hague and Seoul, mainly exploring the intersection of geography and psychology(Psycho-Geography), researching sounds and music that emerge between environments and artificials.
With work experiences at New York’s Harvestworks, Elephant Space and research experience in ArtScience Interfaculty at The Royal Conservatory of Music in The Hague – ‘The other’s sonic experience; Bus 22’, she has been mainly conducting immersive sound performances. She is also working with the latest media technologies, including live coding music performances, AI music performances, and creative coding.
In 2022, along with the Re-Shaping (t)dunes project, which makes musical instruments as coastal infrastructure. And established a non-profit music label Acoustic Territories to continue the practice of environmentally sustainable sound art.In Re-Shaping (t)dunes, Unknown Kim made a wind turbine synthesizer that works with the power of the wind and has the function of preserving dunes, installed and played on the shore.Also, Acoustic Territories has released Acoustic Territories Vol.0, which includes the participants and the field research on sound collection on Jeju Island, and the music produced based on it.
