Jayoung Chung is a multi-media artist: primarily a visual artist, but also a musician, animator, filmmaker and storyteller. She has had numerous exhibits and installations utilizing nearly every form of media, including performance, film, computer graphics, sound and movement. Her work has been exhibited worldwide in both solo and group shows. In New York, she has shown at such institutions as the IAC Building, the La Mama Gallery, Glasslands Gallery, The Red Room, Culturehub and Issue Project Room. She also participated in the globally renowned “River to River Festival” in 2012. She has exhibited at the New Media Festival, Seoul Arts Center, and HCI Design Conference in Korea, and the Dot Mov Festival in Sapporo, Japan, to name but a few. In addition, her work appears in the permanent collections of the Korean Film Archive. In 2013, she was the Moving Image Director at the Special Olympics Winter Games Opening Ceremony.
Although Jayoung majored in visual arts, she learned to play three Korean traditional instruments in her childhood, so her body has remembered those unique sounds as well as the physical motions involved in creating them. She incorporates the music she composes and performs with sounds of nature to create her visuals via the technology of sound processing programs she has personally developed. Throughout her work, there is harmony between traditional arts and contemporary technology.
She has been awarded residencies at Swing Space at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) in 2012, Culturehub in 2011, an organization that values cross-cultural artistic collaboration, I-Park Foundation and an AHL residency in 2011.
She received an MPS from ITP at the Tisch School of Arts in New York University in 2010, as well as BFAs from Seoul National University in 2005 and Ewha Woman’s University in 2003 in South Korea.
Performing with You incorporates drawing, music, and technology into a performance. 12 strings made of conductive wire, paint, and tape are embedded within a sheet of paper. When Jayoung Chung touches the strings with charcoal during the drawing performance, sounds are generated in real time. A computer program allows the act of drawing to create sounds with MAX MSP Jitter, which produces digitized images that are affected by the sounds. The individual and the location take on an audible as well as visible form. The drawing and words come together to create a multi-dimensional portrait of the person that exists in the moment.
More succinctly, there are three layers: the artist draws in an analog way, the drawing creates the sounds, and the sounds create projected moving images through visual programming. She aims to create a series of 40 of these performance portraits over the course of the six-week residency, recording each one.