TAMU CSE Seminar Series (Fall 2025)
Presented "Beyond Reality: Crafting the Future of Human Interaction"
Texas A&M Univeristy, USA

ATLAS Colloquium
Presented "Beyond Reality: Crafting the Future of Human Interaction in AR"
ATLAS Institute, University of Colorado Boulder, USA

CNSI Incubator 10-Year Anniversary Symposium
Presented "Wide-area AR: Mobile Augmented Reality Projects"
California NanoSystems Institute, USA

Invited Talk
Presented "Crafting Spatial User Experience"
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA

Invited Talk
Presented "Beyond Reality: Crafting the Future of Human Interaction in AR"
University of Nebraska–Lincoln, USA

Invited Talk
Presented "Dynamic Theater: Location-Based Immersive Dance Theater"
Johns Hopkins University, USA

Invited Talk
Presented "SenseAR: EEG-Driven Directional and Spatial Awareness in AR"
University of Rochester, USA

Invited Talk
Presented "SenseAR: EEG-Driven Directional and Spatial Awareness in AR"
Indiana University Bloomington, USA

PVFA Research Day 2025
Presented "Dynamic Theater: Location-Based Immersive Dance Theater"
The Stella Hotel, Bryan, Texas, USA

PhD Dissertation Presentation
Presented "Beyond Reality: Designing Personal Experiences and Interactive Narratives in AR Theater"
PhD Dissertation Defense
Santa Barbara, California 

IEEE ISMAR 2024
Presented "Audience Amplified: Virtual Audiences in Asynchronously Performed AR Theater"
Conference Paper (Session: Avatar 2)
Seattle, Washington, USA

Invited Talk
Presented "Beyond Reality: Crafting the Future of Human Interaction in AR"
Texas A&M University, College Station, USA

Invited Talk
Presented "Beyond Reality: Crafting the Future of Human Interaction in AR"
Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA

Invited Talk
Presented "Beyond Reality: Crafting the Future of Human Interaction in AR"
University of Houston, USA

Invited Talk
Presented "Beyond Reality: Crafting the Future of Human Interaction in AR"
Syracuse University, USA

IEEE ISMAR 2023
Presented "Reality Distortion Room: A Study of User Locomotion Responses to Spatial Augmented Reality Effects" Conference Paper (Session: Navigation and Locomotion)
Sydney, Australia

ACM VRST 2023
Presented "Dynamic Theater: Location-Based Immersive Dance Theater, Investigating User Guidance and Experience"
Conference Paper (Session: Technologies in the Wild)
Christchurch, New Zealand 

XR Symposium & Summer School 2023
Presented "Wide-area Augmented Reality"
Copenhagen, Denmark

ACM CHI 2023
Presented "The Impact of Navigation Aids on Search Performance and Object Recall in Wide-Area Augmented Reality"
Conference Paper (Session: Supporting users in AR and VR)
Hamburg, Germany

ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Art Community
Presented "Extended Digital Twins: Blended Memories"
Session: Spatiality in Virtual Reality: Representation, Interpretation & Experience
ACM SIGGRAPH SPARKS 2023 - Virtual Session

ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Art Community
Presented "Extended Digital Twins: Location-Based AR Theater Experience"
Session: New Media Architecture(s): A Speculative Vision of Change in the Arts, Design, & Sciences
ACM SIGGRAPH SPARKS 2022 - Virtual Session

IEEE ISMAR 2022
Presented "Investigating Search Among Physical and Virtual Objects Under Different Lighting Conditions"
IEEE TVCG Journal Paper (Session: Evaluation)
Singapore

Individualized Professional Skills Program Showcase
Presented "Exploring Innovation and Technology at Nokia Bell Labs Intern Day 2022"
Share my travel experience and research project completed at the Nokia Bell Labs
Graduate Division, UC Santa Barbara, USA 

Mentoring Unity for Virtual Reality Research
Presented "Creating Immersive Outdoor AR Experiences for HoloLens 2 with MRTK 3 Rapid Prototyping"
As part of Research Mentorship Program.
Computer Science, UC Santa Barbara, USA 

Nokia Bell Labs Global Intern Presentation Event 2021
Presented "World Tracer: An easy-to-use tool that uses LiDAR SLAM to generate the layout of 3D environments"
Presenting the Summer 2021 research project, which was selected as a Creative Solution Project 2021. 
Nokia Bell Labs, Murray Hill, New Jersey, USA 

Designing XR for Healthcare
Presented "AR / VR Environment for Human Experience Research"
Team focusing on educating and outreach on how to use AR for instruction and training.
Kairos XR, San Francisco, California, USA 

2019 UCSB Grad Slam
Presented "Journey to a Physical World Through Computational Media"
An annual competition for graduate students to present research concisely.
Graduate Division, UC Santa Barbara, USA 

Lunch & Learn
Presented "Journey to a Physical World Through Computational Media"
Monthly campus wide seminar series that provides graduate students to share their research.
Graduate Division, UC Santa Barbara, USA 

Magic Leap Independent Creator Program Pitch Presentation
Presented "ATLAS: The Undersea Exploration Experience, at Your Own Living Room"
Magic Leap, Plantation, Florida

Viz Fall Show
Studio A, 788 Ross Street, College Station, TX 77843
Group Show, individual artwork “SubStrata (2025)”

 What If Day
Studio A, 788 Ross Street, College Station, TX 77843
Group Show, individual artwork “MultiWalker”

MAT End of Year Show 2025: Deep Cuts
CNSI, Elings Hall, Mesa Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Group Show, individual artwork “Mobile Augmented Reality”

Viz-a-GoGo 32: Vizcation
Rudder Theatre Complex, College Station, TX 77843
Group Show, individual artwork “Spatial Odyssey”

PVFA Faculty Biennial 2025
Wayne Stark Galleries, 275 Joe Routt Blvd, College Station, TX 77843
Group Show, individual artwork "SubStrata (2025)”

 Aggieland Saturday 2025
Studio A, 788 Ross Street, College Station, TX 77843
Group Show, individual artwork “Spatial Orchestra”

Art of Science 2024
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1130 State St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Group Show, individual work “Wide-area AR”

MAT End of Year Show 2025: soft AI+M
SBCAST, 513 Garden St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Group Show, individual work "Audience Amplified"

Art of Science 2023
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1130 State St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Group Show, individual work “Virtual Campus”

MAT End of Year Show 2024: latent•ville
SBCAST, 513 Garden St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Group Show, individual work "Spatial Orchestra"

Too Much Information (TMI)
Platform Gallery, HSSB - 6F, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Group Show, individual work “AR Kirby Crossing”

Art of Science 2022
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1130 State St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Group Show, individual work “Ambulatory Augmented Reality”

SYMADES
SBCAST, 513 Garden St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Group Show, individual work “Mixed Reality Simulations and Its Impact on Climate Change Awareness"

MAT End of Year Show 2023: Bricolage
Due to COVID-19, a Virtual Exhibition in a VR Environment
Group Show, individual work “Reality Distortion Room (PDR)”

Reality Distortion Room (RDR)
Microsoft Building 99, 14820 NE 36th St, Redmond, WA 98052
The EPIC (Extended Perception, Interaction & Cognition) Research Group

MAT End of Year Show 2019: MADE
CNSI, Elings Hall, Mesa Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Group Show, individual artwork “Spatial Bubbles”

LA Project immerse(d)
Live House Hollywood, 1534 N Highland Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90028
Group Show, collaborate artwork “Collective VR World”

Optical Scale Optics
Power Plant Gallery, 320 Blackwell St #100, Durham, NC 27701
Group Show, individual artwork “Rain and Water”

Live Processing and Live Art, Performance and Technology
Power Plant Gallery, 320 Blackwell St #100, Durham, NC 27701
Group Show, individual artwork “Clicker Repeater”

2012 SAIC Spring BFA Show
Sullivan Galleries, 33 S State St, Chicago, IL 60603
Group Show, individual artwork “Motor Symphony” 

White Castle Party, End of Year Show by Art and Technology
MacLean Center, 112 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Group Show, individual artwork “Butterfly Wave” 

Moto Broker, Robotic Arms
Siragusa Gallery, 162 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Solo Show, You-Jin Kim

Making the Leap
A.I.R. Gallery, 155 Plymouth St, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Group Show, collaborate artwork “JIN” by You-Jin Kim and Jeesoo Shin

4 x 5, Large Format
Siragusa Gallery, 162 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Solo Show, You-Jin Kim

Moto Broker, Robotic Arms
Siragusa Gallery, 162 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Solo Show, You-Jin Kim

Where We Stand
Nuveen Center, 162 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Group Show, individual artwork “Where the Light Flows” 

ArtBash 2009
Betty Rymer Gallery, 280 S Columbus Dr, Chicago, IL 60603
Group Show, individual artwork “Space to Space”

Carol Jackson Exhibition, Text as Art
LeRoy Neiman Center, 37 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Group Show, individual artwork “Boxes of Reality”

Department (Store) Exhibition with J. Morgan Puett
Sullivan Galleries, 33 S State St, Chicago, IL 60603
Group Show, collaborate artwork “You-Jin & Emily” by You-Jin Kim and Emily Smith

Spatial Odyssey (2026)
Embodied Musical Composition in a Markerless Spatial Augmented Reality
Immersive Igloo Cylinder, 400 Bizzell St, College Station, TX 77840

SubStrata (2025)
A colleborateive sythesys and performance: You-Jin Kim, JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, Curtis Roads
Immersive Igloo Cylinder, 400 Bizzell St, College Station, TX 77840

Audience Amplified (2024)

Audience Amplifed: Location-Based Immersive Dance Theater with DNN Avatar Audiences

CNSI, Elings Hall, Mesa Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Spatial Orchestra (2023)

The SB Dance Company Collaboration: Composing in Motion
Hawaiʻi Convention Center (HCC), 1801 Kalākaua Ave, Honolulu, HI 96815, USA

FractalBrain (2023)

An artful meditation experience translating brainwaves into generative visuals to foster calming neural synchrony. Developed in collaboration with the MSP Lab at UMD, College Park.
Hawaiʻi Convention Center (HCC), 1801 Kalākaua Ave, Honolulu, HI 96815, USA

Dynamic Theater (2022)
Dynamic Theater: Location-Based Immersive Dance Theater with Volumetric Virtual Dancers
CNSI, Elings Hall, Mesa Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Dance Company 2020
Company Director: Delila Moseley, Choreography: Christina McCarthy, Brandon Whited
Performing Arts Theater, HSSB Ballet Studio, University Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Santa Barbara Dance Theater 2020
Artistic Director: Christopher Pilafian, Artist: Nancy Colahan
Hatlen Theater, 552 University Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Out of Many (Dance Concert 2019)
Director: Christina McCarthy, Concert Director: Christina McCarthy
Hatlen Theater, 552 University Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93106

The White Card
Original: Claudia Rankine, Directed by Shirley Jo Finney
Studio Theater, Isla Vista, CA 93117

Boys Like Us
Original: Edmund White, Artistic Director: Brandon Whited
Hatlen Theater, 552 University Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Race Ballet & American Dance
Alicia Graf Mack, Calvin Royal III, Lynn Garafola, Stephanie Batiste, Ninotchka D. Bennahum
Performing Arts Theater, HSSB Ballet Studio, University Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Avian
Concert Director: Valerie Huston, Artist: Carley Conder  
Performing Arts Theater, HSSB Ballet Studio, University Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Fracture
Director: Christina McCarthy, Concert Director: Christina McCarthy
Hatlen Theater, 552 University Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Distance and Desire
Artistic Director: Christopher Pilafian, Concert Director: Christina McCarthy
Santa Barbara Dance Theater, University Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93106