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Hye Yeon Nam

June 7th, 2008

“Many new media artists choose to include interaction within their work for a number of reasons.
For one, the world itself is interactive and, by incorporating these qualities into a work, it
both mimics and considers how the everyday operates. Also, new media work tends to
question high art, such as painting and figurative sculpture. This questioning comes in
many forms. For example, new media often uses new technologies, therefore, asking: Are
there limitations to what medium art can exist as? Does art have to be tangible? Why
is art so prevalently commodified as objects?”

read her RISD thesis essay and see her works

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