2023-2025
ArtCenter College of Design(ACCD), Pasadena, CA
MFA in Media Design Practise

My research centers on digital media, examining the generative mechanisms among technology, emotion, and social structure. It originates from my long-standing inquiry into how images articulate experiences that resist verbalization. From early explorations in visual storytelling during my undergraduate studies to more systematic investigations at the ArtCenter College of Design, my work has evolved from image representation toward an analysis of how media reorganize perception and relational structures. Through the interdisciplinary training of the Media Design Practices program, I came to reconceptualize the relationship between art, technology, and sociocultural issues: technology functions as a logic of perception, art as a form of social practice, and design as the generative medium that binds the two.


Across my ongoing research and creative practice, I have developed a series of interrelated theoretical and methodological models to address issues of emotion, relationality, and representation within contemporary digital environments:

• Algorithmic Orchestration of Intimacy (AOCI) — elucidates how platform algorithms restructure intimacy through the redistribution of visibility, interaction rhythm, and affective accessibility;

• Participatory Narrative Loop Model for Digital Design Justice (PNLM-DDJ) — proposes a cyclical co-creation mechanism that links affective generation, social repair, and cultural re-interpretation within participatory design systems;

• Neo-Montage Decolonial Generativity (NMDG) — reconstructs the affective grammar of moving images and articulates the generative logic of multi-subject perception in decolonial contexts;

• F-A-X Pathway (Feminist Art Therapy + Arts-Based PAR + XR) — integrates feminist art therapy with extended reality (XR) technologies to empirically examine the therapeutic and cross-cultural transferability of artistic intervention.


Although these frameworks operate across distinct research domains—algorithmic communication, design justice, film theory, and art therapy—they converge on a central question:How do digital media operate as generative mechanisms that reconfigure emotional structures, relational networks, and social subjectivity?


My research is grounded in interpretivist constructivism and critical design justice, emphasizing the reciprocal relationship between research and creative practice. I regard art as a mode of knowledge production and the research process itself as a site of theoretical validation and social engagement. Methodologically, my work integrates four complementary approaches:

• Systematic Literature Review & Conceptual Modeling: Cross-disciplinary literature analysis and conceptual mapping are employed to extract theoretical variables and structural mechanisms for building coherent analytic models.

• Film and Media Textual Analysis: Narrative-syntactic mapping and structural deconstruction are used to analyze how filmic and digital media generate affective mechanisms across structural, perceptual, and interpretive layers.

• Arts-Based Participatory Action Research (AB-PAR): Co-creation workshops, participatory interviews, and reflexive journals are conducted to investigate the role of art in cross-cultural empowerment and psychosocial healing.

• XR/AI-Driven Embodied Experimentation: Immersive interaction design and multimodal tracking are applied to study the dynamic correlations among bodily perception, emotional response, and media feedback.


These methods operate in mutual reinforcement: theoretical modeling provides the conceptual framework; practice-based experimentation generates empirical data; and participatory research ensures ethical reflexivity and social resonance. Through a dynamic triad of theory construction, practice generation, and empirical validation, I establish an integrative research system that links theory, design, and experience. This approach enables art-based research to maintain both philosophical rigor and methodological operability while remaining responsive to cultural and social complexity.