CV

Updated January 2024

Education

2026 MFA (pending) Design Media Arts, University of California, Los Angeles, CA (expected June 2026)

2018 BA Design Media Arts, University of California, Los Angeles, CA

2018 Digital Humanities, University of California, Los Angeles, CA (Minor)

2017 King’s College London, London, United Kingdom (Digital Humanities, Study Abroad)

2016 Korea University, Seoul, South Korea (Korean Contemporary Art + Media, Exchange Program)

2014 Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea (Korean language classes)

Selected Awards and Grants

2024 Elaine Krown Klein Scholarship

2024 Division of Graduate Education University Fellowship

2023 Graduate Opportunity Fellowship Program

2018 Undergraduate Research Center Travel Grant

2018 Anderson Ranch Fellowship Scholarship

2018 UCLA Design Media Art Department Travel Grant

2017 UCEAP IEO Global Blogger Scholarship

2017 Dean's Honors List

2016 Korea University International Summer Exchange Fellow Scholarship

Exhibitions

2024 Solo Performance, ssuukkdduukk, Experimental Digital Arts, Los Angeles, CA

2023 Solo Performance, underoverwhelmed(), Experimental Digital Arts, Los Angeles, CA

2018 Solo Exhibition, Hypnagogia, California NanoSystems Institute, Los Angeles, CA

2018 Authentication Error [Solved], Experimental Digital Arts, Los Angeles CA

2018 DIS-, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (Co-Lead Curator with Jen Agosta)

2017 Machinc Unconscious, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (Co-curator)

2016 DROOL, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (Co-curator)

Professional Experience

2024

Graduate Student Researcher, Social Software Lab, UCLA

Curriculum Writer, Processing Foundation

Part-time Faculty, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO

Teaching Assistant, University of California, Los Angeles, CA (Interactivity [Lauren McCarthy], Winter 2024)

2023

Artist Assistant and Stage Manager for Lauren McCarthy's project Saliva Retreat, Los Angeles, CA

2019 - 2023

Senior User Experience Designer, Microsoft, Seattle, WA

2019

Part-time Faculty, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO

Publications

Matthew Conlen, Sara Stalla, Chelly Jin, Maggie Hendrie, Hillary Mushkin, Santiago Lombeyda, and Scott Davidoff. 2018. Towards Design Principles for Visual Analytics in Operations Contexts. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Paper 138, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173712