KRISTY H.A. KANG
Project Director, Art Director & Graphic Interface Designer

Kristy H.A. Kang is an award winning media artist and one of the leading Creative Directors of The Labyrinth Project since its establishment in 1997. Recent projects on visualizing science that she directed include A Tale of Two MAO Genes: Exploring the Biology and Culture of Aggression and Anxiety and Three Winters in the Sun: Einstein in California – an interactive installation about Albert Einstein exhibited at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles as part of the Einstein exhibit in 2005. As co-director she has collaborated on developing the animation, artwork and interface design for several of Labyrinth Project’s interactive memoirs and city symphonies including The Crazy Bloody Female Center, Mysteries and Desire; Searching the Worlds of John Rechy, Tracing the Decay of Fiction: Encounters with a Film by Pat O'Neill, The Danube Exodus: The Rippling Currents of the River, an interactive installation with Hungarian documentary filmmaker Peter ForgAcs, and The Dawn at My Back: Memoir of a Black Texas Upbringing, an interactive DVD-ROM based on a memoir by Carroll Parrott Blue which was the recipient of the New Forms Jury Award at the 2004 Sundance Online Film Festival. Ms. Kang has exhibited her work internationally in media exhibitions and conferences and has been a visiting lecturer at universities in Asia, Europe and the Middle East. In addition to creating multimedia projects, she is an Adjunct Faculty member at The University of Southern California’s Division of Animation and Digital Arts in the School of Cinematic Arts and was a media consultant and educator for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. She received a BFA in Fine Arts from UCLA and an MFA in Animation and Digital Arts from USC and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Inter-divisional Media Arts and Practice at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts.