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Assistant Professor in the Department of Graphic Design at Iowa State University. Art director at hewants design studio, Korea.
I will serve as Co-Chair (with Hye Yeon Nam, New Jersey Institute of Technology) for the session at the College Art Association 2026 Annual Conference:
“New Contemporary Visual Narratives for the Sacred Texts”
🗓 February 19, 2026 | 11:00 AM–12:30 PM
📍 Hilton Chicago – 3rd Floor – Private Dining Room 2 (Hybrid)
This panel examines how contemporary graphic and digital practices reinterpret sacred texts—particularly the Old and New Testaments—within the framework of secular higher education in the United States. Despite their profound influence on Western visual and literary traditions, biblical narratives remain largely absent from contemporary academic art discourse.
Presenters include:
Leslie Atzmon (Eastern Michigan University), The Women’s Torah Project: Torah as an Experimental Book
Alma Hoffmann (University of South Alabama), Choosing Words to Express Worship with Well-Chosen Letters
Emily Kim (Sam Houston State University), The Invisible Made Visible: Microscopic Discoveries and Sacred Narratives
Hye Yeon Nam (New Jersey Institute of Technology), Living Typography, Ec(h)o
The session addresses experimental book forms, typographic activism, immersive VR/AR interpretations of Psalm 23, ecological and robotic generative systems, and AI-driven visual production.
This session offers a timely opportunity to reconsider how sacred texts may inform contemporary visual research and pedagogy.
If you will be participating in CAA 2026, I hope you will consider attending and contributing to the discussion.
My first motion piece using vibe coding!
I’ve been telling myself to try this for a long time, and finally decided to dive in—thanks to the incredible inspiration from so many amazing projects out there. I realized it was time to stop hesitating and just start.
This piece uses data from my CV to identify my expert areas, then visualizes their connections to past presentations and publications. The thicker the line, the stronger the connection. All the text orbits in motion, with random changes in size. The largest text appears in red, while the rest are shown as outlines.
It’s still very early—just a baby step—but I’m planning to create something small every day. With steady practice, I hope this can someday grow into a full-scale class project.
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