Namsee Kim studied aesthetics in Seoul and cultural studies in Berlin. Since 2015, he has been a professor of Studies in Visual Arts at the College of Art & Design, Ewha Womans University. He is the author of Art, Madness, and Writing (2016) and What is Seeing (2013), and has translated several works into Korean, including Daniel Paul Schreber’s Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (2010), Friedrich Kittler’s Gramophone, Film, Typewriter (2019), and Boris Groys’s On the New (2017). He explores and researches contemporary philosophies and art theories, while writing critiques of artists working in diverse fields such as painting, installation, media art, sound art, and performance.
