Art Exhibit and Reception: Hye Min Cho in Conversation With Lauren Lee McCarthy

DataX is honored to announce our first art collaboration featuring the work of media artist and UCLA alum Hye Min Cho. View the art and enjoy a conversation between Cho and her mentor, Professor Lauren Lee McCarthy, about the digital installation, 石 (Rock), 财 (Wealth), 壶 (Kettle), 笔 (Writing brush), 松 (Pine), which references the tradition of East Asian still life paintings.

Light refreshments will be served.

About the Artist

Hye Min Cho (b. Incheon, South Korea) is a media artist, who through her works visualize the qualities of computational methods of perception and their differences to human perception. She uses machine learning technologies to make renditions of the familiar that reveals unfamiliar qualities that arise as a product of the algorithm’s process. Her works are reflections of the machine-mediated beings we are starting to become. Cho holds a M.F.A. in Design | Media Arts from UCLA and a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley.

Lauren Lee McCarthy is a Professor of Design Media Arts and Disability Studies at UCLA.

Encounter Data Differently

DataX collaborates with artists to bring technology, art, and community inquiry together, creating space to encounter, question, and explore data as creative material. This installation invites you to engage data as a source for storytelling, interpretation, and imaginative practice.