Kyueun Kim

Talk

Public Lecture

“How VR Technology Is Changing Theatre: VR for Theatre Research and Archiving.” New York Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, Bruno Walter Auditorium, May 1 2023.

Invited Talk

“Symposium on Technology in East Asian Performance.” Invited speaker, The University of Maryland in collaboration with the Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, scheduled for March 2024.

Conference

Upcoming

“VR’s Wild Hope: Performance and Virtual Reality Working Session.” The American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR), scheduled for December 2023. Co-convener with Katherine Mezur (UC Davis) and Laura Hyunjee Kim (UT Dallas).

Conference Organization

“Catastrophe’s Bodies and Wild Sensorium: Inaugral Performance and Virtual Reality (VR) Working Session.”  The American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR), 2022. Co-founder and co-convener with Katherine Mezur (UC Davis).

“Screening Performance, Performing Screens: New Projections in Theatre and Media.” Co-organizer, The Doctoral Theatre Students’ Association Annual Conference, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 2019.

Conference Presentations 

“Choreographing Intimacy in Participatory VR Performance.” The American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR), Performance and Virtual Reality (VR) Working Session, 2022.

“Mediating the Physical and the Virtual: Phantom Bodies and Choreographic Gestures in Hayoun Kwon’s Participatory VR Performance.” The Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), The Association for Asian Performance (AAP), 2022.

“Performing with a Spirit of Hijikata Tatsumi: Butoh, Digital Ghost, and Supernatural Dance in Choy Ka Fai’s Unbearable Darkness.” The American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR), Global Asia Working Group, 2021.

“Techno-Spirituality: An Inter-Asian Perspective.” The Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), Ritual and Global Performance Roundtable, 2021. Virtual presentation.

“Posthuman Spiritualities: Trance, Virtual Reality, and Supernatural Dance in Choy Ka Fai’s CosmicWander.” The International Federation of Theatre and Performance (IFTR), Performance, Religion, and Spirituality Working Group, 2021. Virtual presentation.

“Nonhuman Intelligence and Embodied Virtuality in Annie Dorsen’s Algorithmic Theatre.” The American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR), 2019.

“Playing with Stage Realism: A Journey from Formal Experimentation to Naturalism in Young Jean Lee’s Theatre.” The Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), 2018. 

“Performing Democracy: Seoul’s Public Square as a Political Stage of Resistance.” The Performance Studies international (PSi), 2018.  

“Networking Art and Research: Bruno Latour’s Performance of Knowledge.” The Doctoral Theatre Students’ Association 2018 Conference, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 2018.