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I like imagining. In my imagination I like to be playful and to invent things. My daily routine, my surroundings, my desires, my complaints, and my memories are the essential source of my imaginary inventions. I know I have always wanted to realize these inventions for a long time and I have only begun.

I am now manifesting the objects I invented in my childhood imagination and in the momentary images of my memory which arise like deja vu, through my playful translation between old media and new technology. The questions, interests, and desires I had in my childhood are still valid, and my imagination of that time becomes yet fresher.

The objects in my imagination are primarily functional. The function is my channel for interaction. When I think of a function, I fantasize about a person's engagement; a person's interaction. In this fantasy, I see the common threads uniting the separated traditions of artistic creation and technological invention, and I now enjoy playing with them.

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Jin-Yo Mok, March 2005
Upcoming Show / News Solo Show at Gallery LOOP, Seoul, Korea, May 2007
News Archive MusicBox, invited from Microwave Media Art Festival, Hong Kong City hall, November 2006
EMAN, exhibited at Young Korean Artists, Korea National Museum of Contemporary Art , Kwa-Cheon, Korea, October 2006
SoniColumn, invited from WIRED NextFest 2006 , New York, October 2006
Light Bead Curtain, invited from ZERO ONE SAN JOSE, ISEA 2006, San Jose, August 2006
MusicBox Mini, exhibited at Budro-um, SOMA Museum Seoul, Korea, July 2006
MusicBox Mini, exhibited at Circuit Diagram, SongWon Art Center Seoul, Korea, June 2006
SoniColumn, exhibited at Bitforms Seoul, Seoul, April 2006
Music Box Column commissioned from DAUM Foundation, Cheju, Korea, Jan 2006
Light Bead Curtain invited from FILE2005, Sao Paulo, Brazil, October 2005
Selected Artist for the Dumbo Art Festival, New York, October 2005
Individual Artist Grant awarded by NYSCA, September 2005
Music Box included in the Ars Electronica Center Collection for one year, September 2005
The Music Box Project presented at FLASHFORWARD Conference, New York, July 2005
MusicBox invited from WIRED NextFest, Navy Pier, Chicago, June 2005
PixelAche, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland, April 2005
IMCexpo, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, April 05
Play Me featured at Beyond Stills, Gallery Korea, New York, March 10, 2005
Light Bead Curtain featured on GIZMODO, Feb 17, 2005
Light Bead Curtain featured on WMMNA, Feb 16, 2005
Received an Artist in Residency from Harvestworks, New York, December 2004
MusicBox featured on the Compact Impact Media Art show, New York, September 24, 2004
MusicBox featured on GIZMODO, August 31, 2004
MusicBox featured on Whitney Museum's Artport, August 2, 2004
featured on a Korean magazine [SPACE] as the Artist of the Month, June 2004


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