Heya Kwon (she/they) is a Korean American artist-researcher working across sound, new media, and participatory practices. With a background in social theory, music, and software engineering, she approaches art and technology as tools for critical reflection.
Inspired by media archaeology and Buddhism, her artistic research practice examines the psychological, material, and ecological conditions of media systems with a focus on media exhaustion. She is particularly interested in slowness and rest as ways of resistance in our current extractive and accelerationist technological regimes.
She is currently pursuing an MA in New Media at Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland, and holds a BA in Social Studies (Political and Social Theory) from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, USA.