Shinseungback Kimyonghun is an artistic duo based in Seoul, consisting of engineer Shin Seung Back and artist Kim Yong Hun. Their collaborative practice explores the relationship between technology and humanity, with a particular focus on AI. Their works have been exhibited internationally at venues such as the Ars Electronica Center, ZKM, NTT ICC, MMCA, and more.
Shin Seung Back (born in Seoul, Korea)
Education
2012 Master of Science and Engineering, GSCT, KAIST, Daejeon,
Korea.
2007 Bachelor of Computer Science, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.
Kim Yong Hun (born in Uiryeong, Korea)
Education
2012 Master of Science and Engineering, GSCT, KAIST, Daejeon,
Korea.
2010 Bachelor of Visual Art, SCA, The University of Sydney, Sydney,
Australia.
Selected Exhibitions
2025 Chaos Butterfly, Chang’an Yun - Xi’an Future City Art
Centre, Xi’an, China.
2024 Daejeon
Art and Science Biennale, From The Corner, Daejeon,
Korea.
2024 Art
and Artificial Intelligence, Ulsan Art Museum, Ulsan,
Korea.
2024 Permanent
Exhibition, Seoul RAIM, Korea.
2024 Digital
Heritage, Now! AI With You, Korean Cultural Centre UK, London,
UK.
2024 Re
Cognition: what is Real?, at Çubuklu Silos, Istanbul,
Türkiye.
2023 AI Flower, Korean Cultural Centre UK, London, UK.
2023 Codes
and algorithms. Wisdom in a calculated world, iMAL, Brussels,
Belgium.
2023 Peculiar Interfaces, The Outpost, Hanoi, Vietnam.
2023 Paper Mirror: Time Sculpture Collection, Seongbuk
Children’s Museum, Seoul, Korea.
2022 BIAN,
Arsenal Contemporary Art Montreal, Montreal, Canada.
2022 Codes
and algorithms. Wisdom in a calculated world, Fundación
Telefónica, Madrid, Spain.
2022 The Pieces
I Am, UCCA Edge, Shanghai, China.
2022 METAMORPHOSIS METAVERSE, Elektra Virtual Museum (EVM),
Online.
2022 Les
Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France.
2022 Intelligence
Artificielle. Nos reflets dans la machine, Musée de la main,
Lausanne, Switzerland.
2021 Songs
of the Sky, C/O Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
2021 Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Tianfu Art Museum, Chengdu,
China.
2021 BIAS,
Science Gallery Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
2021 VIDEOSURVEILLANCE
- Sur-prise du visible, Lavoir Numérique, Gentilly,
France.
2021 Face,
HMOKA, Seongnam-si, Korea.
2021 Flower,
National Assembly Library, Seoul, Korea.
2021 Humans /
Machines, Le Pavillon, Namur, Belgium.
2021 Algoritmia,
MEIAC, Badajoz, Spain.
2021 Me,
Myself and I, Saint-Ex, Reims, France.
2021 MirNs, New Media
Gallery, New Westminster, Canada.
2021 Real
Feelings, MU Hybrid Art House, Eindhoven, Netherlands.
2020 Cloud Face, Sinaloa Science Center, Sinaloa, Mexico.
2020 METAMORPHOSIS
Vol.2, Hyundai Motorstudio, Seoul, Korea.
2020 Silent
Works, Haus der Statistik, Berlin, Germany.
2020 Data CTRL
Centre, M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2020 Xhibition
2010 - 2020, Bluesquare NEMO, Seoul, Korea.
2020 Daejeon
Biennale 2020, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea.
2020 Understanding
AI, Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria.
2020 Real
Feelings, HeK Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
2020 Sensory
Yoga, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung,
Taiwan.
2019 NTAA’19,
Zebrastraat, Ghent, Belgium.
2019 The
Square, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul,
Korea
2019 Faszination Gesicht, Vögele Kultur Zentrum, Freienbach,
Switzerland
2019 Open
Space 2019: Alternative Views, NTT ICC, Tokyo, Japan.
2019 Poetic
Diction, Pohang Museum of Steel Art, Pohang, Korea.
2018 Future
Humanity, Hyundai Motorstudio, Beijing, China.
2018 Seoul
Mediacity Biennale, Seoul, Korea.
2018 ArtiST
Project / Daejeon Biennale 2018, KAIST Vision Hall, Daejeon,
Korea.
2018 Open
Codes, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany.
2018 Dark
Mirrors, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong.
2018 I
am here to learn, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt,
Germany.
2017 Gwangju Media Art Festival, Gwangju, Korea.
2017 The 4th Media Art: Post Human, Gwangju Museum of Art,
Gwangju, Korea.
2017 Robotronica 2017, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane,
Australia.
2017 The Face, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden,
Germany.
2017 Ars Electronica
in Berlin, DRIVE. Volkswagen Group Forum, Berlin,
Germany.
2017 In The
Head, Musée de la main, Lausanne, Switzerland.
2017 Art +
Science, Cultural Center of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
2017 Stone,
Goethe-Institut Shanghai, Shanghai, China.
2016 Why
Future Still Needs Us: AI and Humanity, Art Center Nabi, Seoul,
Korea.
2016 In Your Face, National Media Museum, Bradford, UK.
2016 Earth Lab, Red October chocolate factory, Moscow,
Russia.
2016 Flower,
Art Center Nabi, Seoul/Daejeon, Korea.
2016 Under
Arms Fire & Forget 2, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt,
Germany.
2016 To
See Without Being Seen, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum,
St. Louis, USA.
2015 Global
Control and Censorship, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany.
2015 AND Festival, Grizedale Forest, Lake District, UK.
2015 Brave New World, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague,
Czech Republic.
2015 Infosphere,
ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany.
2015 The
City is the Star, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany.
2015 Performing
Public Art, Vienna Biennale, Vienna, Austria.
2015 Fiber Festival, A Lab, Volkshotel & Radion, Amsterdam,
Netherlands.
2015 Robot
Essay, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul,
Korea.
2015 Attention,
Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne,
France.
2015 Panopticon,
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, USA.
2015 Techne,
Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria.
2014 Project Daejeon 2014: The Brain, KAIST KI Bldg., Daejeon,
Korea.
2014 Biometric,
New Westminster New Media Gallery, New Westminster, Canada.
2014 Featured
Artists, Ars Electronica Festival 2014, Linz, Austria.
2014 Da Vinci Creative, Seoul Art Space_Geumcheon, Seoul,
Korea.
2013 Trace
Recordings, UTS Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
2013 Autonomies,
Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia.
Commissions & Grants
2024 Nondance Dance 2, Commissioned by Daejeon Museum of Art
<Magnum Opus>, Korea.
2022 Nondance Dance, Produced by Korea National Contemporary
Dance Company, Korea.
2019 Mind, Commissioned by the National Museum of Modern and
Contemporary Art, Korea.
2018 Nonfacial Portrait, Commissioned by Seoul Mediacity
Biennale 2018.
2017 Stone, Commissioned by Goethe-Institut Shanghai,
China.
2016 Animal Classifier, Commissioned by Art Center Nabi.
2015 Cloud Face - Real Time, Commissioned by ZKM | Center for
Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany.
2015 Cloud Face at Grizedale Forest, Commissioned by Abandon
Normal Devices, UK.
2014 Da Vinci Idea, Grant from Seoul Art Space_Geumcheon,
Seoul, Korea.
Talks & Panels
2025 Artist Talk, Chang’an Yun - Xi’an Future City Art Centre,
Xi’an, China.
2023 Artist Talk, Outpost, Hanoi, Vietnam.
2021 Panel Discussion, Hybrid
by Nature, Goethe-Institut, Online.
2020 Artist Talk, Daejeon Biennale, Online.
2019 Artist Talk, Faculty of Design and Art, Free University of
Bolzano Bozen, Bolzano Bozen, Italy.
2019 Artist Talk, ICCV 2019, Seoul, Korea.
2018 Panel
Discussion, Berliner Gazette Annual Conference, Berlin,
Germany.
2017 Master Class, Academy of Arts, University of Novi Sad,
Novi Sad, Serbia.
2017 Master Class, University of Arts in Belgrade, Belgrade,
Serbia.
2017 Artist Talk/Workshop, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju,
Korea.
2017 Panel Discussion, OCAT, Shanghai, China
2017 Artist Talk, Goethe-Institut Shanghai, China.
2016 Artist Talk, School of Computing, KAIST, Daejeon,
Korea.
2016 Artist Talk, College of Fine Arts, Seoul National
University, Seoul, Korea.
2015 Artist Talk, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary
Art, Seoul, Korea.
2014 Artist Talk, Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST,
Daejeon, Korea.
2014 Future
Innovators Summit, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria.
Public Collections
Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea.
Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea.
Swiss Science Center Technorama, Winterthur, Switzerland.
Awards
2020 Mind, Honorary Mention, Prix Ars Electronica, Linz,
Austria.
2019 Nonfacial Portrait, Jury Selections, Japan Media Arts
Festival, Tokyo, Japan.
2019 Nonfacial Portrait, Finalist, New Technological Art Award
2019, Zebrastraat, Ghent, Belgium.
2018 Stone, Jury Selections, Japan Media Arts Festival, Tokyo,
Japan.
Interviews
Digital
by Nature, Metal Magazine, 2019.
아주
새로운 미술, 노블레스, 2017.
Featured
Artists 2014 Ars Electronica, Ars Electronica, 2014.