Andrea Shinyoung Kim (ODL researcher 2019-2021) is an interdisciplinary scholar-artist experimenting with XR and co-creative storytelling practices. Her research looks at how identity is constructed and enacted in social VR, taking VRChat as an ethnographic case study. She proposes a framework for crafting virtual avatars as a practice that revives cultural heritage and feminist relations to space. Andrea is also the creative director of The (In)visible Organ, a digital media initiative inspired by a new medical technology that visualizes the cervix. This project brings together artists, engineers, and the global health community to produce new perceptions of the inner reproductive anatomy through education, art, technology, and storytelling. She is directing/producing a documentary film of the same title.
