I. Yosun Chang is an augmented reality artist whose art is often mistaken as innovative startups that have won various awards from Grand Prize (twice) at TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon to First Place at Microsoft Build Hackathon and multiple First Places at Intel Perceptual Computing Challenge and more.
She views the digital realm as her main reality — in 2008, she took things within and beyond through “a year of seclusion”, where she locked herself up in a room for an entire year, with no outside contact except for the virtual world of Second Life, to be able to be maximally productive — scripting and crafting 3D models at the speed of thought to build and run virtual Shakespearean theatres, virtual bunnies and museums. These days, she dreams about fantastical products enhanced by emerging technologies — her medium includes hackneyed mobile devices to every single HMD out there as well as most depth sensors. She's known as the creator of AReality3D Permute.xyz, an AR/VR/ML startup studio comprising many of her solo projects -- including PlatoAR and PlayGAMI, HoloYummy, ArtformAR, faced.io, PettyAR and ARKitty and many others. In collaboration with CODAME in 2016, she created HoloShatter, the first art installation project on HoloLens, which became a Sundance New Frontiers finalist. Her AR art created as a first place reicipient of Mozilla RealityRedrawn Challenge exhibited at various museums and at Ars Electronica Festival.
Yosun has spoken at (and has been invited to show her work at) well-known industry conferences such as SIGGRAPH, Augmented World Expo (formerly Augmented Reality Event), Makerfaire, JSConf, SXSW, CES, Google I/O and DevFest as well as dozens of meetups around the world—from San Francisco to Vancouver to Vienna to Siberia to Shanghai and back!