Profile Information

Affiliation
Associate Professor, Niigata University
Associate Editor, Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Associate Editor, Mechademia: Second Arc
Degree
PhD(Dec, 2020, Middlesex University (UK))
Master of Science in Engineering(Feb, 1996, Seoul National University (South Korea))
Bachelor of Science in Engineering(Feb, 1994, Seoul National University (South Korea))

Researcher number
00749955
J-GLOBAL ID
201601009271766174
researchmap Member ID
7000018364

Kim is Associate Professor in the program of Interdisciplinary Japanese Studies and Co-director of the Archive Center for Anime Studies at Niigata University. He received a PhD degree with his thesis "Puppets between Human, Animal and Machine: Towards the Modes of Movement Contesting the Anthropocentric View of Life in Animation." He is the award-winning author of Animation, Alchemy of Images (2001, Seoul: Hannarae) and Empire of Images: Animation on the Japanese Islands (2006, Seoul: Hannarae). He is Associate Editor of Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal (UK) and Mechademia: Second Arc. During the first decade of the twentieth century, he was involved as curator in Cinema Digital Seoul (2008-2012) and many other film festivals.


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Presentations

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Works

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