Focused on video production, I create speculative narratives that reflect the world and project possible futures. My works explore migration, diminished and unstable identities, and the overlapping worlds of virtual and real. Inspired by Asian folklore, movement ecology, games, and SF, my work evokes the saturated world of today and the crisis of identity and explores the multiple self that migrates across the potential worlds.
2017–2020
MA in Fine Arts, ZHdK (Zurich University of the Arts), Zurich
2010
MA in Design, Domus Academy, Milan
2007–2009
Product Design, SADI, Seoul
2001–2006
BA in Computer Engineering, Hongik university, Seoul
2025
PAX Art Award, nomination
2024
DA Z award, Digital Art Zurich, honourable mention
2024
Swiss Interactive Session, Geneva International Film Festival
2022
Prix Photoforum 22, nomination
2022
Swiss Interactive Session, Geneva International Film Festival
"DA Z screening", Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich (2024)
"Volume of air trapped between the earth and the sky", HAAM Gallery, Punjab (2024)
"Porvir", quarta a sabado, Sao Paulo (2024)
"Collective Imaginary Studies", one gee in fog, Geneva (2023)
"PRIX PHOTOFORUM 2022", Kunsthaus Pasquart, Biel (2022)
"We are so many here - Regionale 23", Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (2022)
"Internal Clocks", Culterim Gallery, Berlin (2022)
“Wired Magic”, HEK, Basel (2021)
“MATERIAL WORLDS – STORIED MATTER”, E-WERK, Freiburg (2021)
“BE THERE” design festival, Hongkong (2019)
“Molecular and Love”, Galerie 1 in Toni-Areal, Zurich (2018)
2023
Work grant, Fachausschuss Film und Medienkunst BS/BL, Basel
2024
Piscina #1 – Porvir, Piscina art magazine, Sao Paulo
2024
IN A NUTSHELL, Z-KUBATOR WHAT’S UP, Zurich
2023
The Whole Technoshamanic Catalog, Umbigo magazine, Portugal
2022
WAVES program by Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich
2021–2022
What’s Next_Studio, Zurich
2022
Atmosphäre, Design und Wohlbefinden (part 2), CoCreate course, HGK, Basel
2022
Atmosphäre, Design und Wohlbefinden (part 1), CoCreate course, HGK, Basel
2012–2015
UX design consultant, FRUM
2011–2012
Product designer, HANSKIN
For video + portfolio requests or any other inquiries, please contact me.
jhy.basic@gmail.com
