Rosa Sungjoo Park
Biography
Rosa Sungjoo Park is a sound artist whose research interest is centered on the study of psychoacoustics, electronic music, mixed media, and the physicality of sound. Park explores various aural materials and their sonic characteristics, seeking unusual ways of seeing and hearing that unlock new experiences. Park’s practice and performance are deeply rooted in her cultural identities, memories, and religion and she has produced a large number of works that deal with Korean traditional rituals, acoustic memories, the nature of life and death, the potential interactions between sounds in the environment, body, and silence.
Park's work has been exhibited and performed in galleries and theaters in the United States, Canada, and South Korea. She holds master’s degrees in Digital+Media from Rhode Island School of Design, Visual Communication Design from Seoul National University, and Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of British Columbia Okanagan. Park has taught at Rhode Island School of Design, University of British Columbia, and Florida Atlantic University and she currently teaches in the School of Cinema at San Francisco State University, courses in Sound Design and Experimental Filmmaking.
Selected Exhibitions and Performances
"Imaginary Lights," sound performance, the Projects, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 2017
“Absence and Presence,” sound Installation, Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence, 2016
“Windless,” sound performance, Anthropology, Granoff Center Studio 1, Brown University, Providence, 2016
“Windless,” sound performance, Sol Koffler Gallery, CIT, RISD, Providence 2016
“Absence and Presence,” Installation, Dark Matters, Sol Koffler Gallery, CIT, RISD, Providence, 2016
“Programming Sound: Performance Systems,” sound performance, Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center, RISD, Providence, 2015
“Altered Memory,” live Performance, Multimedia & Electronic Music Experiments (MEME), Brown University, Providence, 2014
“Forgotten Dreams: Meditations On Narrative Space,” Installation, FINA Gallery, University of British Columbia, Okanagan, 2014
“The Sublime,” Solo Exhibition, FINA Gallery, University of British Columbia, Okanagan, 2014
“The Medium Is The Message,” Live audio-visual performance, FINA Gallery, University of British Columbia, Okanagan, 2013
“6 STORIES,” Live audio-visual performance, FINA Gallery, University of British Columbia, Okanagan, 2012
“There must be something under the water,” Multimedia installation, FINA Gallery, University of British Columbia, Okanagan, 2012
“GlassWorks,” Audiovisual installation, Samwon S&D Hall, Seoul National University, South Korea, 2008.
“Electronic-Jangoo,” Live audiovisual performance, LG Art Center, Seoul, South Korea, 2008.
Selected Publications
“Absence and Presence,” Artists’ Writing, Rhode Island School of Design, 2016
"Forgotten Dreams: Meditations on Narrative Space: The Design and Integration Process for the Audiovisual Space Composition," University of British Columbia Okanagan, 2014
“Forgotten Dreams: Meditations on Narrative Space: The Design and Integration Process for the Audiovisual Space Composition,” Joint Conference of Asia Digital Art & Design Association (ADADA), Korean Society of Design Science (KSDS) and Society of Design Convergence (SDC): 2013
"Ancient Futures: Design and/or Happiness, 160-163. 2013" "A Study on The Visual Expression of Image for Stage in The Performing Music arts: Focusing on Visualization of The Glassworks in the Philip Glass’s Music" Seoul National University, 2008
“A Study on Information Graphic Expression in Cyberspace,” Proceeding of the Fall Design Conference of Korean Society of Design Science, Summer 2007
Website: www.rosapark.org