Kim Jaewon

Jaewon is a Korean designer and creative technologist based in Singapore. Working at the intersection of interactive art, sound and computation, he explores how digital tools, particularly artificial intelligence, can act as creative collaborators rather than replacements.

His practice spans real-time 3D graphics, generative sound and gestural interaction, exploring how spatial audio and embodied input can transform familiar urban environments into participatory experiences.

His graduation project, Shape of Sounds, reimagines Singapore's Bugis district as a field of roughly 300,000 audio-reactive particles navigable through hand tracking and spatial sound. It is a meditation on the listening city, built natively in Python with ModernGL, MediaPipe, and OpenAL.

Beyond the studio, Jaewon builds AI-powered storytelling platforms, experiment with game development pipelines, and think critically about how emerging tools are reshaping the role of the designer. Earlier projects explored sound art and data visualisation of Singapore's neighbourhood soundscapes, transforming field recordings from Bugis and Raffles Place through Python, p5.js, and Three.js.

Jaewon previously interned for six months as a Creative Intern at Ptarmigan Media, a major financial advertising agency under Omnicom Group, contributing to advertising production for clients including HSBC and Goldman Sachs. Fluent in Korean and English, he moves between the technical and the poetic, equally at home debugging shader code, mapping cities in particles, or questioning authorship in an age of intelligent machines.