Sarah Seiyeun Kim is a communication scientist with a design and art practice. She is a recent graduate from New York University’s Integrated Design and Media program (B.S) at the Tandon School of Engineering with a minor in Media, Culture, and Communication from Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development (May 2025).
Sarah is driven with the fascination of how organisms interact with their environments. Her perspective interconnects a variety of ecosystems often perceived as disparate, from social, cultural, political and environmental ecologies. She is currently exploring noise and its potential in therapy, summoning her sound-focused experimental research practice to carve new ways of existing in the energetic realm.
As a critical multimedia artist, she has used computation, language, interaction, image, sound, and video to create experiences that urge attention towards today’s global sociocultural rifts. She is also experienced in working on collaborative projects as the creative lead, spatialized sound, installation, and projection designer. Through her work, Sarah hopes to reimagine humankind’s relationship with Earth’s complex systems and inspire collective healing through the conscious approach of deep listening.
Among other things, Sarah is an impressionist artist, experimental classically-trained cellist, writer, humanist, environmentalist, lover, fighter, and dreamer.
Experimental Trauma Sound Studies
Digital Journal
Senior Thesis Project, IDM Showcase Spring 2025
Collaborative Multimedia Performance, Sound Designer
Experimental Documentary Film
Sound Circuit, Feedback Loops, Material Resonance
Live Perfomance, Projection, and Sound
E-stethescope explorations in MAX/MSP
Handcrafted Zine, History of Coney Island
Functional Sculpture
Photographic
Sarah Seiyuen Kim is a communication scientist, interdisciplinary designer, and critical multimedia artist who studies the interplay of social, cultural, political, and environmental ecosystems. In May 2025, she graduated from NYU’s Integrated Design and Media program (B.S.) at the Tandon School of Engineering, with a minor in Media, Culture, and Communication from the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.
Driven by a fascination with how organisms interact with their environments, Sarah’s practice challenges anthropocentric perspectives, revealing the interconnectedness of human, nonhuman, and technological systems. Her research and creative projects address sociocultural dilemmas, using computation, language, interaction, video, image, and sound to craft immersive experiences that inspire collective healing and sustainable futures. Her work Echoes of the Ouroboros uses generative soundscapes in MAX/MSP, projection mapping, and physical fabrication to create a liminal space that explores memory, identity, and ecological entanglement, fostering emotional and physiological resonance.
As a creative lead and collaborator, Sarah is experienced in multichannel sound, installation, and projection design and mapping, blending critical theory, natural observation, and emerging technologies. Her multidisciplinary skill set spans creative coding (Java, JavaScript, Python, HTML), sound design (DAWs, MAX/MSP, analog synthesis), film production, photography, and interactive installations. Through these mediums, she critiques rigid frameworks and reimagines human-environment relationships balancing play, seriousness, and sentimentality.
An impressionist artist, experimental cellist, writer, and composer, Sarah draws inspiration from natural patterns, cultural memory, and phantasmagoria. She is curious about semantics, cybernetics, and human-nonhuman relationships. Her projects, showcased in academic and artistic settings, spark dialogue on social and environmental transformation. Through her work, she amplifies marginalized voices and drives cultural shifts toward equity and sustainability, grounded in the continual act of deep listening.
