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Woohun Joo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art, specializing in Digital Arts and Media Design at Penn State's School of Visual Arts (SoVA). He is a visual designer, audiovisual artist, and sound designer whose research focuses on sonification, which includes the process of creating sound from abstract visual art data. His projects explore the transfer of minimalistic visual art into auditory domains and investigate methods to visualize sound-making processes, aiming to seamlessly integrate sonification into visual narratives. Joo’s work emphasizes the potential for visual sound design as an immersive, multi-sensory experience in communication design. His audiovisual installations have been presented at notable international conferences, including ACM Siggraph, Digital Arts Community, and International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME). Joo earned his Bachelor's degree in Visual Communication Design from Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, Korea, and holds a Master’s degree in Digital+Media from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). He began his doctoral studies in Media Arts Technology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and completed it in Human-Centered Design at Virginia Tech, receiving his Ph.D. in 2022.
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