BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:The Moynihan Institutes' East Asia Program welcomes Jinah Kim f rom California State University\, Northridge.In this presentation\, Jinah Kim explores Gina Kim’s VR films—Bloodless\, Tearless\, and Comfortless—as a form of aesthetic intervention into our perception of military violence \, particularly in the context of the U.S. military Comfort Women system o n the Korean peninsula.Using sensory immersion and minimalist aesthetics\, Gina Kim's VR works invite us into ghostly spaces where violence is not w itnessed but felt\, that is\, the temporal and spatial ecologies of percep tible violence. Critiquing news media and journalistic accounts that have focused on explicit\, graphic images that dehumanizes violence\, Gina Kim’ s VR draws on the sensory\, in particular aurality\, to amplify the ways t hat the hidden violence of war and ongoing militarism shapes the everyday. This talk situates Kim’s work within a broader context where artists\, act ivists\, as well as the state\, are turning to media technologies\, such a s VR and AI\, to narrate histories of violence\, positioning them as cruci al tools in the ongoing battle over commemoration. Within this milieu Gina Kim’s works highlight the everyday felt violence that resonate across the trans-Pacific\, offering new ways to think about memory\, representation\ , and collective responsibility.This event is co-sponsored by the Newhouse School of Public Communications.Jinah Kim is Professor and Chair in Commu nication Studies and a faculty affiliate in Asian and Asian-American Studi es at California State University\, Northridge. Her scholarship and teachi ng focus on aesthetics\, embodiment\, and memory\, asking how literature\, performance\, and visual culture may intervene in state regulation of mem ory surrounding histories of violence. She is the author of 'Postcolonial Grief and the Afterlives of the Pacific Wars in the Americas' \;(Duke University Press\, 2019). She is working on two book projects\, 'Against F orgetting: Transpacific Redress for the Comfort Women and Detours: Decolon ial Guide to Korea'. She is a core member of the “Ending the Korean War Te aching Collective” and on the editorial board of 'Verge: Studies in Global Asia\, American Quarterly'\, and the 'Modern Language Association'. \ ; DTEND:20250411T173000Z DTSTAMP:20260511T193548Z DTSTART:20250411T160000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Temporal & Spatial Ecologies of Perceptible Violence | Gina Kim’s B loodless\, Tearless & Comfortless UID:RFCALITEM639141105489316601 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The Moynihan Institutes' East Asia Program welcomes Jinah Kim from California State University\, Nor thridge.

In this presentation\, Jinah Kim explores Gina Kim’s VR fil ms—Bloodless\, Tearless\, and Comfortless—as a form of aesthetic intervention into our perception of military violence\, particularly in the context of the U.S. military Comfort Women system on t he Korean peninsula.

Using sensory immersion and minimalist aestheti cs\, Gina Kim's VR works invite us into ghostly spaces where violence is n ot witnessed but felt\, that is\, the temporal and spatial ecologies of pe rceptible violence. Critiquing news media and journalistic accounts that h ave focused on explicit\, graphic images that dehumanizes violence\, Gina Kim’s VR draws on the sensory\, in particular aurality\, to amplify the wa ys that the hidden violence of war and ongoing militarism shapes the every day.

This talk situates Kim’s work within a broader context where ar tists\, activists\, as well as the state\, are turning to media technologi es\, such as VR and AI\, to narrate histories of violence\, positioning th em as crucial tools in the ongoing battle over commemoration. Within this milieu Gina Kim’s works highlight the everyday felt violence that resonate across the trans-Pacific\, offering new ways to think about memory\, repr esentation\, and collective responsibility.

This event is co-sp onsored by the Newhouse School of Public Communications.

Jinah Kim is Professor and Chair in Communication Studies and a faculty affiliate in Asian and Asian-American Studies at California Sta te University\, Northridge. Her scholarship and teaching focus on aestheti cs\, embodiment\, and memory\, asking how literature\, performance\, and v isual culture may intervene in state regulation of memory surrounding hist ories of violence. She is the author of 'Postcolonial Grief and the Af terlives of the Pacific Wars in the Americas' \;(Duke University Press\, 2019). She is working on two book projects\, 'Against Forgetti ng: Transpacific Redress for the Comfort Women and Detours: Decol onial Guide to Korea'. She is a core member of the “Ending the Korean War Teaching Collective” and on the editorial board of 'Verge: Studie s in Global Asia\, American Quarterly'\, and the 'Modern Language Association'.

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