JOO YOUN PAEK
 

Hi, my name is Joo Youn Paek. I am studying at Interactive Telecommunications Program, NYU. On this website, most of the work indicate my projects during my graduate studies. I am interested in the observation and experiment of human space sensation in everyday lives using any kind of media and technologies as design tools. My ultimate goal is to deliver laughs and twists to our daily lives.

You can contact me at jyp243@nyu.edu.

 
ITP Projects ::
 
Catch the Scoop
Class: Experimental Projects in Flash
Semester: Spring 06
Project Description: This is a mobile flash game created for Nokia Mobile phone. A girl tries to catch falling ice cream scoop with her empty ice cream cone. User can controll the girl's location using the softkey of mobile phone.
 
Online Sky Puzzle
Class: Experimental Projects in Flash
Semester: Spring 06
Project Description: This is a online live social puzzle game that enables for users to play with others. Users can move the objects under the sky to match the holes on the sky. By moving objects in virtual networked world with others, the online social group can have physical feelings how the puzzle works.
 
Orp(Organic Oriental Painting)
Class: Introduction to Computational Media
Semester: Fall 05
Project Description: 'Orp' is an interactive screen display user interacting with a virtual organic plant. With the mouse control the user can draw the trunk and flowers of the plant. From the light and shade of gray scale the display looks like oriental painting.
 
Polite Umbrella
Class: Introduction to Physical Computing
Semester: Fall 05
Project Description: “Polite Umbrella” a shrinkable umbrella that enables users to morph its shape in order to reduce occupied space and to increase user maneuverability.
 
Zipper Orchestra
Class: Sensor Work Shop, Video for New Media
Semester: Spring 06
Project Description: “Zipper Orchestra” is interactive video installation: a combination of the “Conductor Musical Score” as a physical controller and the “Zipper Actions Collage Video” as musical display. Users can play music by zipping and unzipping the physical zipper.
 
 
Individual Art and Student Projects ::
 
PJ Consulting Website
Indivisual Project
2005
Project Description: “PJ Consulting" is a company cunsulting sofware engineering. I was responsible for total group image, icon design, broasher and website.
 
Pillowig
Class: (This project is in the subset of my Independent Study's project)
2004
Project Description: A hand made wearable Pillow comforting trieness of people in daily lives. User test done in public spaces - subway, airplane, library, class room, laundromat and a old palace.
 
Ping But No Pong Game
Class: (This project is in the subset of my Independent Study's project)
Project Description: This is an odd 20 minute ping-pong game representing communication errors in social dinner table. I played with about 70 artist from Vermont Studio Center using balls with written words and holed racket.
 
The Statue of Flower Knowledge
Independent Project
2004
Project Description: Funded from Seoul National University, Korea. Out door protrait statue made with bronse. On the hair part is designed to plant flowers simbolizing the vitality of knowldge.
 
Sports Tool Poetry
Independent Project
2004 -2005
Project Description: Self-expression by modifying sports tools – helmet, goggle, soccer shoes, boxing gloves and golf putting matt. Some pieces in this project criticize competitions of sports games and some are just for personal expression.   
 

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