1. Biography

2. Career
    Art Center Nabi  Bibliography   Presentation  

3. References

4. External links

Soh Yeong Roh is a South Korean art museum director. She is the founder and director of Art Center Nabi.

Biography

Soh Yeong Roh was born in Daegu, South Korea, on March 31, 1961. Her father, Roh Tae-woo is a former South Korean politician and ROK Army general who served as the 6th President of South Korea from 1988 to 1993.^[1] She has a younger brother, Jaehun Ro, who is a lawyer in the United States.

In 1988, Roh married the chairman of the South Korean group SK Corporation, Chey Tae-won, and has two daughters and a son.^[2][3]

She attended {{Interlanguage link multi|Sudo Girl's High School|ko|3=수도여자고등학교}} in Seoul, South Korea, and then went to the United States for further education, attending the College of William & Mary in Virginia as an undergraduate and doing graduate work in economics at the University of Chicago.^[4] Then, she gained her master's degree in education from Stanford University in California before returning to South Korea for graduate study in Media Communication at Yonsei University in Seoul.

Career

Art Center Nabi

In 2000 Roh founded Art Center Nabi.^[5][6] It has a predecessor of Walkerhill art museum which was a private contemporary art museum in Seoul. She transformed the art museum into a new media art museum.^[7][8]

Under her supervision,^[9] Art Center Nabi has been organizing various exhibitions and projects, such as Why Future Still needs Us- AI and Humanity(2016),^[10] Nabi Artist Residency 2016,^[11] Robot Theatre(2016),^[12] Robot Party (2015),^[13][14] Makeable City (2015), Nam June Paik SPECIAL EXHIBITION: HOMAGE TO GOOD MORNING MR. ORWELL (2014), Butterfly series (2014, 2015),^[15][16] Incheon International Digital Art Festival 2010 (2010), Come Join Us, Mr. Orwell! (2009),^[17] p.Art.y (2007) and so forth.^[18]

• Why Future Still needs Us- AI and Humanity(2016): The exhibition was held from November 2016 to January 2017. This was one of the AI projects including a variety of events related to AI, such as AI conference, AI Hackathon.
• Nabi Artist Residency 2016(2016): Nabi Artist Residency 2016 was an international residency program to cooperate with media artists who studied HCI and AI area and Art Center Nabi's E.I.Lab creators for developing artworks.
• Robot Theatre(2016): This exhibition introduced a trend of modern art using robots in various areas, such as music, performance, media art.
• Robot Party(2015): The exhibition Robot Party was held from December 2015 to January 2016. The Robot Party conveyed the interaction between humans and robots. Artists, DIY makers, and Startups participated in the exhibitions.
• Butterfly 2015(2015): The exhibition Butterfly 2015: wearable technology Art was the series Butterfly of 2015 and demonstrated the wearable technology art, which employed the wearable computing technology as a tool for new expression and communication. Butterfly 2015 was produced by artists such as Bang&Lee, HongBum Kim, Sanghwa Hong, Hyuns Hong, Chungyo Ha, MinHye Lee, Eunmi Jung, JaePil Choi, JiYe Kim and JiHyun Yun.
• Makeable City(2015): The exhibition Makeable City was held together with the Global Summit 2015^[19] - Creative Commons in Seoul in October 2015. The Makeable City is organized to convey the picture of the city as a new community created by makers, such as TeSoc Hah, NamHo Cho, DongHoon Park, YoungBae Suh, Hyun Park, and Dizi Riu.
• Nam June Paik SPECIAL EXHIBITION: HOMAGE TO GOOD MORNING MR. ORWELL(2014):^[20] The exhibition Nam June Paik SPECIAL EXHIBITION was held in Busan, South Korea, from October 2014 to November 2014. This special exhibition, Homage to Good Morning, Mr. Orwell was a telematic project to demonstrate how the spirit of Paik's work was continued, and recreated 30 years after the first international satellite performance was broadcast live.
• Butterflies 2014(2014): The exhibition Butterflies 2014 was held from March 2014 to June 2014. The exhibition highlighted artistic activities that were moving toward the convergence beyond the boundaries of different genres, art, architecture, design, media art, science and so on.

In 2010, she organized the Incheon International Digital Art Festival 2010 (INDAF 2010) in Incheon, South Korea. The exhibition INDAF 2010 was held from September 1, 2010 to September 30, 2010, and she gave a speech about how she got Mobile Vision in the Keynote Conversation 1.^[21]

• "One connected world, eternal time and space, diversity blossoming from it, free navigation and mobility of the human being... 'Nothing to fear in my joy,' declared Nam June Paik early on. I want to share such joy with as many people as possible through Nabi's activities."
  • Speech at the INDAF Conference 2010, Incheon, South Korea, (2010)

Also, she directed the SK Telecom Pavilion at Expo 2012 held in Yeosu, South Korea, from May 12, 2012 to August 12, 2012.^[22] SK Telecom Pavilion reflected the belief that rapidly evolving information and communication technologies (ICT) could play a significant role in increasing happiness in everyday life.

Bibliography

In 2014 Roh released her book, Digital Art, published by Jaeum&Moeum.^[23][24]

• Digital Art by Director Soh Yeong Roh (published in 2014) {{ISBN|978-89-5707-807-5}}
• Lay Artists (published in 2012) {{ISBN|978-89-954728-7-3}}
• 10 Years of Art Center Nabi (published in 2010) {{ISBN|978-89-954728-1-1}}

Presentation

• My Fair Robot(September 18, 2016):^[25] As an invited speaker, Soh yeong Roh delivered a presentation ‘My Fair Robot’ in Future Fest which is an event from Nesta. In this presentation, she showed what Art Center Nabi has been doing for the past two years making 30 social robots and shared what she's learned by talking to and playing with these robots. She also demonstrated how engaging in such activities revealed more about us humans than about the machines.

References

External links

• {{official website|http://nabi.or.kr/english/main/main.nab}}

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