Professor
LEE, IM SUE
Assistant Professor, Art Theory and History
Im Sue Lee received her Ph.D. degree in art history from the University of Florida, with her doctoral dissertation on alternative spaces in New York and the extension of art in the 1970s. Her major field is the postwar and contemporary art and art theory, and her research interests are art in an expanded field since the 1960s, such as installation, performance, video and new media art, and socially engaged art, and the new concept of art medium and its relations to painting and sculpture.
MAJOR
현대미술사 및 미술이론
BIOGRAPHY
2013
Ph.D. University of Florida, Art History
2006
MA. Korea National University of Arts, Art Theory
2003
BA. Korea National University of Arts, Art Theory
1994
BA. Seoul National University, Communication Studies
2015-18
Visiting Professor, Korea National University of Arts, Department of Art Theory
WORKS
2021
“Donald Judd’s Specific Objects and Pursuit of Minimalist Space: New York and Marfa.” Art History: Journal of the Korean Association of Art History Education 41 (February 2021), pp. 179-202.
2020
“Art Paradigm Shift in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: the Conceptual Change of Medium after Modernism and the Rise of Art Medium as an Agent,” Journal of History of Modern Art 48 (December 2020), pp. 215-242.
2019
“The Cultural Logic of the Museum in the Era of the Sharing Economy,” The Korean Journal of Arts Studies 25 (September 2019), pp. 91-112
2019
“Democracy for PAD/D and Group Material: Activism and Participation in Art,” Journal of the Association of Western Art History 51 (August 2019), pp. 181-206.
2017
“Cindy Sherman’s Photographs: Stains as the Signifier of Presence and Absence,” Journal of the Association of Western Art History 47 (August 2017), pp. 173-202.
2017
“Aesthetics of Surveillance and Control: from Cold War to Globalization.” Journal of History of Modern Art 41 (June 2017), pp. 37-65.
2017
“Thoughts on Artificial Intelligence and Contemporary Art: From Cybernetics to the Neural Network,” The Korean Journal of Arts Studies 15 (March 2017), pp. 5-28.
2016
“Global Groove: Nam June Paik’s Electronic Fluxus Object,”presented at the International Symposium: Gift of Nam June Paik 8: Reanimating Nam June Paik: Nam June Paik’s Interfacesat Gyeonggi Provincial Museum, September, 9, 2016. The paper was published in NJP Reader #6: Reanimating Nam June Paik(Yongin: NJP Art Center, 2016), pp. 49-69.
2016
“Year 1969: Robert Smithson’s Mirror Displacements and Flow Pieces,” Journal of the Association of Western Art History 45 (August 2016), pp. 215-242.
2015
“Participatory Art in the Digital Era: Remediation and Interaction,” The Journal of Art Theory & Practice 19 (June 2015), pp. 83-113.
2015
“Frank Gillette: Video as Process and Meta-process,” Art History: Journal of the Korean Association of Art History Education 37 (February 2015), pp. 7-37.