Krista Kim

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Krista Kim is a contemporary artist and founder of the Techism movement since 2014, promoting the confluence of art and technology, and technological innovation as a medium to further the development of digital humanism. She believes that artists must participate at the vanguard of technological innovation in order to contribute to the creation of future culture during this pivotal period of technological innovation, adaptation, and disruption. In her Digital Consciousness series, Kim gathers digital images of LED lights and manipulates them using multiple software to create her artwork, a technique that she has developed since 2012.

Kim is interested in the disruptive interpersonal and social effects of digital technology, as a force of distraction and segregation of people based on similar interests and likes though algorithms on social media. She seeks to communicate a transcendent, meditative experience for the viewer in digital visual language, which she describes as digital consciousness.

Kim was the chosen artist by creative director Olivier Lapidus of Lanvin for the fall–winter 2018 collection. Five of her artworks were selected as the inspiration of the color cards and digitally printed fabrics and leather goods for the collection. This groundbreaking collaboration introduced the digital gradient trend into the fashion world. The Krista Kim sneakers and handbags were sold out of Lanvin shops worldwide before the end of season.

Kim has lived in Seoul, Tokyo, and Singapore. She is exhibiting in New York, Paris, and worldwide art fairs. She earned her Masters of Arts Fine Arts from LASALLE College of the Arts / Goldsmiths, University of London in 2014. She completed her undergraduate studies in Political Science at the University of Toronto.

Techism[]

Kim created the art movement of Techism in 2014, involving technological innovation with the creation of art. In her manifesto, Krista Kim, explains that her movement is not in opposition to older art practices because it is "an artist’s expression drawn from the cross-pollination of contemporary tools: intelligent software and digital media."

External links[]

• Artist Krista Kim And Lanvin Harness The Power Of Digital Technology To Create A More Humane World, Forbes
• Like A New Digital Rothko, Krista Kim Uses Technology To Create Meditative, Healing Art, Forbes
• Lanvin’s Olivier Lapidus Designs Tech-Friendly FW18 Collection with Artist Krista Kim, Whitewall
• Light is the New Ink in the work of Krista Kim, The Huffington Post
• Krista Kim Techism's break out star, 25A magazine
• Digital Abstraction: The work of Krista Kim, Bellus Magazine
• The beautiful side of digital overload, NYmag.com
• Techism Manifesto , Kim's website
• The Art of Light by Krista Kim, Designcollector.net