Hee-Eun Kim (Bekkie) | h.eund
Artist-researcher crafting sensorial architectures between human cognition and systemic environments
Experimental Artist | Interdisciplinary Researcher | Systems Architect | Sound & Interaction Designer
About
Hee-Eun Kim (Bekkie) is a South Korean artist-researcher whose practice explores how computational systems can be reimagined as sensorial experiences.
She creates works where technology becomes a relational field rather than a tool, investigating the spaces where data, emotion, and human perception intersect.
Research
BDSS Prototype Implementation: A Behavioural Approach to Sonifying Photosynthetic Systems (2025)
Works
Grants & Fellowships
- 2024 - DNA Art Lab Pohang Culture Foundation, Pohang, South Korea
Selected Exhibitions & Performances
- 2025 - Void && Form, Das LOT, Vienna, Austria (Team Mangshinsal) | FaceAPI, Webcam, LED Display - Dimensions Variable
- 2024 - Metal Rave, Dongbin 1969, Pohang, South Korea | Max/MSP, Conveyor Belt, LED Display, Joystick - Dimensions Variable
- 2024 - Sonification of Soil Contamination Data, Solar Happy Hour, Songpa Library, Seoul, South Korea | Max/MSP, Media Wall
- 2024 - Deviated Vibrations (Collaboration with Pohang Accelerator Laboratory), Art & Tech Cluster Forum, Pohang, South Korea | Max/MSP, Ableton Live
- 2024 - !𝑴𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒓𝒖𝒑𝒑𝒆 𝑩𝒊𝒕𝒏𝒊𝒌 4X4 (Seoul Edition), Arko Art Centre & Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea
Experiments
Behaviour-Driven Systemic Sonification (BDSS)
Novel Sonification method that models systems as interdependent, emergent behaviours rather than isolated parameters.
Data Model Sonification Series
A comparative experiment evaluating four cognitive and informational models for their capacity to express emotional ambiguity through sound:
- Neural Net Approximation
- CLARION Dual-Process Model
- Temporal Pattern Recognition
- Information Theory Model
Sacred System
A cognitive architecture for co-regulation between human and AI systems. Developed to facilitate memoryless, affect-sensitive interaction without classification or prediction. Core modules include:
- Cognitive Relay Interface (CRI)
- Relational Cognitive System (RCS)
- Applied Systems Cognition Tests (ASCT)
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Inspired by the World Wide Web's first page, 1991.