Jack Straw New Media Gallery

Yunmi Her has been working with video installation and interactive art to explore the daily internal conflict of individual lives.  An individual’s sense of belonging is the dominant subject of most of her works. These works explore this subject by examining the environmental limitations, social systems, and relationships that contribute to the construction of individual identity. Her video work consists of recordings which depict incidental accidental daily encounters as well as interviews with people concerning their everyday lives. On the contrary, her video installations create dreamlike, ethereal moods which convey not only emptiness and loneliness, but also the senses of hope and satisfaction which arise in the cycle of one’s daily life. She is a graduate student in the DXARTS program at the University of Washington.

New Media Gallery 2019-20: Natural Individuals

Julia Freeman grew up in a suburb outside of Kansas City, Missouri. Freeman graduated from the University of Washington in 2007 with her MFA in Fibers and has lived in Seattle the past 15 years as an artist, curator and teacher. Four years ago she co-founded The Alice, a curatorial collective which prioritizes supporting underrepresented artists. Her artistic practice has critically examined civility and etiquette, the military industrial complex, drug culture and social media. These projects use a variety of materials and processes which take the form of installations, performance sculptures, book arts and new media works. She is always considering ways to engage the audience in the artistic experience while archiving and examining these systems of power.

New Media Gallery 2019-20: IRISIRIS

Cameron Perry Fraser is a composer and sound artist from Chesapeake, VA. He is currently a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Washington in the Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media and received his master’s degree from Columbia University’s Sound Arts program where he worked at Columbia’s famed Computer Music Center. Cameron composes music for his unique acoustic/electric hybrid instruments, sculptures and instillations. His work often employs ecoacoustic strategies, indeterminate methods and feedback systems.

New Media Gallery 2019-20: Large String Array

Luann Bice is a Seattle artist who believes in the power of story and art to incite conversations about challenging topics. Using her personal history as a reference point, she reflects upon realities of growing older, explores the ephemeral but cyclical nature of human existence and works to disrupt cultural myths. Her work employs a variety of media – printmaking, sculptural forms, artists books, video and audio – to explore what lies “in-between” external appearance and internal richness. By investigating multiple perspectives of identity, loss and aging, Luann welcomes complexity and encourages viewers to celebrate realistic self descriptions and acceptance.