Doo-Sung Yoo is a Korean new media artist. He synthesizes scientific research within his artwork and interweaves interdisciplinary media between professional fields. He is focused on creating hybrid sculptural and interactive entities, in which a human performer is conjoined with disembodied animal organs integrated with electronic devices within mechanical bodies. He currently explores virtual network entities as expanding hybrids that enhance interspecies relationships between human and non-human living organisms within experimental immersive art forms. 

 

His artworks have been shown in many exhibitions and art festivals, such as Prospectives.09 at Reno, Nevada, Ingenuity Fest at Cleveland, Ohio, and Art in Odd Places: Care at New York City, New York. His experimental art hybrids have been focal points of academic conferences and symposiums, including International Symposium on Electronic Art at Albuquerque, New Mexico, Speculative Futures at Arts Santa Mònica (Barcelona, Spain), Bodies on Stage: Acting Confronted by Technology (Paris, France), the keynote speech of Borderlines IV: Resisting, Persisting, Performing (Leicester, England), ​​and Transmedia Arts Seminar at Mahindra Humanities Center of Harvard University. His organ-machine hybrids were nationally and internationally reviewed and published in art magazines, books and journals, such as ‘Performance Research: A Journal of the Performing Arts’ (England), ‘Bio-Aesthetics: The Production of Life in Contemporary Art’ (Switzerland), ‘Tierstudien’ (German), ‘Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture’ (England), ‘Evolution Haute Couture: Art and Science in the Post-Biological Age’ (Russia), ‘Wi: Journal of Mobile Culture’ (Canada), the American art journal, ‘Media-N’, and ‘Posthumanism in Art and Science: A Reader’ by Columbia University Press.  He has been critically discussed in and featured by leading art publications in his native Korea, such as ‘Art & Criticism’, ‘ArtWIDE’, and ‘Misulsegye’.

 

He is currently an Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Art and Technology area of the Department of Art at The Ohio State University.