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E Roon Kang lives and works in New York, where he operates an interdisciplinary design and research studio, Math Practice. He works in print, web, and environmental installations, with interest in studying, evaluating, and criticizing complex systems and its consequential pointlessness of a pursuit of efficiency.
E Roon's work has won NSF Science and Visualization Challenge, and shown in places including the MoMA, Platform 2009 of Seoul, Seattle Public Library, and the Architectural League of New York.
He gave talks and lectures at MIT, NYU, TED Conferences and Cannes Int'l Festival of Creativity, among others, and taught courses at Bauhaus-University Weimar and SUNY Purchase, and currently teaches at Rutgers University.
E Roon is a TED Fellow and was a research fellow at SENSEable City Laboratory of MIT. He is a recipient of the Young Guns award from Art Director's Club, and holds an MFA from Yale University.
He is also a co-organizer of a Brooklyn based curatorial group AGWF, which works to discuss topics both in and outside the field of art, in an effort to present a place for thought, action, and construction.
Selected Press
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Monthly Design, Vol. 415
Design House, January 2013
Special Feature: 10 Noteworthy Designers of 2013 (p.84–85)
Report: Graphic Design of Presidential Campaign, 2012 (p.131–133) -
Graphic, Vol. 23
Propaganda Press, July 2012
Objects of Inspiration, Interview -
Los Logos 6
Gestalten, 2012
"... complex identity systems, like E Roon Kang's for the MIT Media Lab, demonstrate formal accuracy at the crossroads between graphic design and tech solutions."
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Autonomy and Trend 2: Young Designers in South Korean Graphic Design Fields
Propaganda, 2012
Interview (p.45–58) -
CA Magazine, Vol. 175
Future Media, June 2012
Designer Focus, Interview (p.30–31) -
Icon Magazine, Vol. 96
Media 10, June 2011
New: MIT Media Lab Identity, by William Wiles (p.57) -
Pen Magazine
Hankyu Communications, June 2011
The Visual Identity of the MIT Media Lab (p.45)
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Selected Projects
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“Ambitious and forward looking as the Media Lab itself, the concept connects closely to the organization’s corporate self-conception, while taking that of corporate identity to another level: No static design product, but one of socio-scientific fundamentals.”
See project in eroonkang.com
MIT Media Lab Identity
Collaboration with TheGreenEyl
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Absentee, 2010See project in eroonkang.com
Absentee
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Trash Track, 2009 / BackTalk, 2011See project in eroonkang.com
Trash Track / BackTalk
Project of SENSEable City Lab, MIT
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Study: Additive White, 2008See project in eroonkang.com
Study: Additive White
Platform in Kimusa, 2009
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Buzzcar: Peer to Peer Car Sharing
Service Workflow, Branding, Apps
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SubcurrentsSee project in eroonkang.com
Subcurrents, for Mannam at Project #8, 8b
Collaboration with Christian Marc Schmidt
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Yale School of Medicine
Yale School of Medicine: Web Integration
medicine.yale.edu
See more projects at eroonkang.com
Clients / Partners / Collaborators
1609 Dekalb Studio,
AGWF,
Buzzcar,
MIT School of Architecture + Planning,
MIT Media Lab,
New Normal Business,
Richard Mosse,
Self-Assembly Lab,
SENSEable City Lab of MIT,
SO–IL,
TED Conferences,
TheGreenEyl,
Why Not Smile,
Yale School of Medicine
Richard Mosse, Self-Assembly Lab, SENSEable City Lab of MIT, SO–IL, TED Conferences, TheGreenEyl, Why Not Smile,
Yale School of Medicine
Talks / Lectures / Events
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January 23 – 24, 2013
Vier Kurse: A+–×=B
My Students' exhibition of the outcome of A+–×=B workshop, Ernst-Thälmann-Str. 19, Weimar, Germany.
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January 8, 2013
Bauhaus Masters: E Roon Kang
Artist talk at R116, VdV, Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany.
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January 8 – 25, 2013
A+–×=B
Full-semester workshop on design and automation, at Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany. -
December 22, 2012
Pixel Pusher Workshop
Workshop on electronics and motor controls, by Taeyoon Choi, hosted at Math Practice.
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November 17, 2012
Design Sharing 2012
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November 7, 2012
TED Talk: Challenging Efficiency
TED Salon 2012: Exporing Possibilites, London, UK.
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October 25, 2012
Printing Code
Guest lecture in Printing Code at New York University, Interactive Telecommunications Program. -
July 30, 2012
Lunch Talk @ Hyperakt
Talk and presentation at Hyperakt, New York. -
June 19, 2012
TED@Cannes
TED Talk at TED@Cannes session. Cannes Lions: 59th International Festival of Creativity, Cannes, France.
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March 20, 2012
Mason Gross Presents
Artist Talk at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. -
February 28, 2012
TED 2012, Fellows Talk
TED Fellows talk at TED2012: Full Spectrum, Long Beach, CA.
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July 24 – Novermber7, 2011
MoMA: Talk to Me
BackTalk, featured in Talk to Me exhihibition at Museum of Modern Arts, curated by Paola Antonelli. -
June 1, 2011
Kookmin Universty
Guest lecture at Kookmin University, Visual Communication Design, Seoul, Korea -
October 30 – November 4, 2010
Between-Between
Group show, Between, featuring twelve designers and design studios. Between-Between London, #2 Calvin Street, London E1 6NW, UK. -
August 28, 2010
The Book Society
Artist talk at The Book Society, Seoul, Korea. -
February 28 – March 27, 2010
Subcurrents@Mannam
Group show Mannam at Project No.8 and 8b, New York, NY. With Christian Marc Schmidt, Jae Jeon, Abi Huynh, Yoonjai Choi, Ken Meier, Chris Ro, Huy Vu, Min Lew, Koen Malfait -
September 19 – October 11, 2009
Trash Track:
Trash Track, project with the SENSEable City Lab is shown at the Seattle Public Library, Seattle, WA.
SENSEable City Lab -
September 17 – October 11, 2009
Toward the Sentient City
Trash Track, project with the SENSEable City Lab participated Toward the Sentient City exhibition at the Architecture League of New York, Seattle, WA. Curated by Mark Shepard.