About
Insun Kang is an artist and designer working across spatial interaction, XR environments, and multisensory installation. Her practice explores how behavior, perception, and agency emerge through the interplay of bodies, systems, and socio-technical infrastructures. She creates immersive experiences—both physical and virtual—that investigate how environments choreograph movement, decision-making, and relational presence.
Her background spans creative technology, cognitive and multisensory research, and interaction systems design. She contributed to VR-based experiments in perception and multisensory integration at UCLA’s Multisensory Processing Lab (PI: Dr. Ladan Shams), developing virtual environments and interaction logic to support behavioral and perceptual research. She also works on experiential interaction architecture at Elite Neuro, where she develops spatial logic, multimodal feedback, and behavioral systems for immersive training in VR.
From 2021 to 2024, Insun co-founded and led whatsoftdata, an intermedia collective exploring softness, relational systems, and the poetics of socio-technical experience. The collective’s inaugural platform, SoftRx, functioned as a living, evolving organism for experiments in spatial storytelling, chance operations, and embodied participation.
She holds a BFA in Art & Technology Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA in French from the University of California, Los Angeles.