Woohun Joo is an audiovisual artist and sonification researcher who creates sound from abstract visual art and other types of non-musical data. His projects mainly focus on how minimalistic visual art can be transferred to auditory domains and how his sound-making processes can be conversely visualized. Joo’s work explores the potential of visual and sound design as an integrated art form for multi-sensory user experience and communication design. His research and audiovisual installation have been published at conferences such as ACM Audio Mostly, the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD), and the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC).
Joo majored in graphic design at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, Korea. He worked professionally as a graphic designer in web design, editorial design, identity design, typeface design, and UI/GUI/UX design. He holds his master’s degree in Digital & Media from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in sound and multimedia technology with affiliation to the Human-Centered Design program and the Center for Human-Computer Interaction (CHCI) at Virginia Tech.
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Education
- Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2022
- MFA, Rhode Island School of Design, 2014
- B.Des., Sungkyunkwan University, 2008
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Courses Taught
- Intro Web Design
- Visual Images on Web
- Interactive Learning and Web Design
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Exhibitions + Productions
- Melting Point by Häagen-Dazs x Lotte (Artist: Kyuha Shim), Lotte World Tower Avenuel Art Hall, Seoul, Korea, 2022
- Silent Screen, Denver Digerati, Denver, CO, 2022
- The New Media Art X Neo Shibuya TV, Tokyo, Japan, 2022
- The New Media Art, Online, 2022
- VideosoundArchive, Online, 2022
- CreativeApplications.Net, Online, 2022
- Cyborg Futures with Neil Harbisson, Lightbox Digital Art Space, New York, NY, 2014
- The Graduate Thesis Exhibition, Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence, RI, 2014
- Trigger Design Show NYC, CultureFix, New York, NY, 2014
- ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT LEDs, RISD, Providence, RI, 2013
- Circuit Bending+Hardware Hacking as Musical + Artistic Expression, Grant Recital Hall, Brown University, Providence, RI, 2013
- Design Works from China, Korea, and Japan, Sichuan Univ, Chengdu, China, 2007
- Graphic Design Exhibition, Tsinghua Univ, Beijing, China, 2006
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Publications + Presentations
- W. Joo, “Graphic-to-Sound Sonification for Visual and Auditory Communication Design,” In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Audio Mostly, 2022.
- W. Joo, “Colormatrics,” In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Audio Mostly, 2022.
- Joo, W. Sonifyd: Colormatrics. International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, the University of Auckland, New Zealand, 2022.
- Ivica I Bukvic, Disha Sardana, and Woohun Joo. 2020. New Interfaces for Spatial Musical Expression, Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Birmingham City University, pp. 249–254.
- D. Sardana, W. Joo, I. I. Bukvic, and G. Earle, “Perception of spatial data properties in an immersive multi-layered auditory environment,” In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Audio Mostly, 2020.
- W. Joo, “Sonifyd: A Graphical Approach for Sound Synthesis and Synesthetic Visual Expression,” International Conference on Auditory Display, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, 2019.
- I. Bukvic, G. Earle, D. Sardana, and W. Joo, “Studies in Spatial Aural Perception: Establishing Foundations For Immersive Sonification,” International Conference on Auditory Display, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, 2019.
- D. Sardana, W. Joo, I. I. Bukvic, and G. Earle, “Introducing locus: a nime for immersive exocentric aural environments,” In Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2019, p. 250–255.
- Sihwa Park, Woohun Joo, “FormSound: A Particle Formation-Based Audiovisual Interface”, In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Shanghai, China, 2017.
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Service + Affiliations
- ACM Audio Mostly
- The International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME)
- The International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD)
- The International Computer Music Conference (ICMC)
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Expertise
Sonification, Sound Art, Sound Spatialization, Computer Music, Audiovisual, Visual Art, Visualization, New Media Art, HCI, Interaction Design, Human-Centered Design, Graphic Design
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