This dynamic installation explores the pure physical connection between the sonic and the visual. The audiovisual elements are tightly synchronized and unified into a new form of synesthetic experience. Sounds within and beyond the range of human hearing draw geometric patterns. Kim utilizes a custom-built, 16-channel software oscilloscope, a device normally used to measure continuous voltage.

Kim challenges our traditional hierarchy of sounds in which certain sounds are considered more musical or pleasing to the ear. He embraces the diversity of sounds in the world and seeks to create new connections between sound and visuals.

Jinku Kim is a sound and multidisciplinary artist born in South Korea and currently residing in Lincoln, Nebraska. Over the past two decades, he has explored novel ways of creating art, embracing the intersection of art, science, and old/emerging technologies. His work has been exhibited and performed at REDCAT, The Whitney Museum of American Art, and STEIM (Amsterdam), among others.

Kim earned a Ph.D. in Computer Music and Multimedia from Brown University, an M.F.A. in Integrated Media and Experimental Sound Practice from the California Institute of the Arts, and a B.M. in Professional Music: Electronic Production and Design from Berklee College of Music. He currently teaches and studies at the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Hard-Wired Wonderland is dedicated in loving memory to his sister.