Yiyun Kang
Seoul-based multimedia installation artist working at the intersection of art and technology
Yiyun Kang (Seoul-based multimedia installation artist working at the intersection of art and technology) has appeared as a guest on 1 episode in TMT. Topics they speak about most include Artificial intelligence and art, Light Architecture, Passage of Water.
In their words
Positions and remarks grouped by topic, each with the exact quote and where it was said.
Artificial intelligence and art
Kang says her feelings about AI combine excitement and anxiety, which is reflected in the fluctuating light and darkness of her work.
“exactly like a huge excitement, great anxiety, all kind of entangled inside of me. That's the reason why my artwork is also fluctuate”
TED Radio Hour: Big mysteries explained through your senses (Sep 18, 2026) · Listen from 50:57
Kang says she began tackling AI in her work because chat interfaces removed the technical barriers and hid the complexity behind them.
“now, everything is just at our fingertips. We just need to type it. So it removes all the barrier”
TED Radio Hour: Big mysteries explained through your senses (Sep 18, 2026) · Listen from 47:40
Light Architecture
Kang describes Light Architecture as an installation of 'neural pods' where visitors stand inside the mind of a machine rather than watching a model.
“These modules are no longer flat pixels, they are living neurons, and I call them neural pods. Here, you don't just watch a model, you stand inside the mind of a machine”
TED Radio Hour: Big mysteries explained through your senses (Sep 18, 2026) · Listen from 49:26
Passage of Water
Kang argues that artistic creativity is essential rather than a luxury because it lets people feel data instead of merely seeing it.
“This is where artistic creativity becomes an essential, not a luxury. You don't just see the data, you feel it”
TED Radio Hour: Big mysteries explained through your senses (Sep 18, 2026) · Listen from 46:10
Freshwater scarcity
- Prediction · due Dec 2050
Kang says half of humanity will lack clean water by 2050 and that she used NASA satellite data with Google to dramatize freshwater loss.
“Half of humanity will like clean water by 2050, and many already do”
TED Radio Hour: Big mysteries explained through your senses (Sep 18, 2026) · Listen from 44:21
Predictions
1 pending
- Prediction · due Dec 2050
Kang says half of humanity will lack clean water by 2050 and that she used NASA satellite data with Google to dramatize freshwater loss.
“Half of humanity will like clean water by 2050, and many already do”
TED Radio Hour: Big mysteries explained through your senses (Sep 18, 2026) · Listen from 44:21 · Freshwater scarcity
Appearances
Big mysteries explained through your sensesTED Radio Hour · Sep 18, 2026 · 50 min
Manoush Zomorodi talks with astronomer Mark Whittle, smell researcher Paule Joseph and artist Yiyun Kang about perceiving hidden realities through the senses.
Often appears with
- Manoush Zomorodi · 1 shared episode
- Mark Whittle · 1 shared episode
- Paule Joseph · 1 shared episode