Yeseul Song

Yeseul Song (송예슬) is a Busan-born, NYC-based artist who leverages technology, interaction, and participation to build playfully thought-provoking "stages for people." In her work, passive audiences do not exist; there are only participants discovering new sensory languages through both intellectual and bodily engagement.

She uncovers creative possibilities of non-visual senses and creates new sensory languages using technology and interaction to advocate inclusive and imaginative views of the world. With the belief that art needs to be accessible to everyone, she explores and occupies non-traditional art spaces to challenge commonly held ideas about access and accessibility in art. She’s best known for Invisible Sculptures (2018-2021), a series of non-visual experiential sculptures made of sound, warmth, air, smell, and thought, Two Subtle Bodies (2022), a participatory performance where two people wear interactive cloaks to embody each other, and Balancing Act (2025), an interactive installation that invites participants to move together as one.

Her non-visual experiences have been shared globally at institutions like the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum (D.C.), National Asian Culture Center (ACC, South Korea), Watershed (UK), and Wave Hill (NY), alongside at public outdoor spaces in collaboration with arts organizations such as Art in Odd Places (NY) in DUMBO (NY). She is an 2026 awardee of the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship program for Digital/Electronic Arts, and her new collaboration Sonic Skating (2025~) has been supported by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC) and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC). She is a former fellow at NEW INC and the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD Museum).

Yeseul is an Assistant Arts Professor at NYU ITP/IMA, and is an alum of ITP, School for Poetic Computation (SFPC), and Yonsei University. She loves figure skating and contorting.

Courses Taught:
Intro to Physical Computing (ITP)
Physical Computing (IMA)
Intangible Interaction (ITP)
Interaction as Art Medium (IMA)
Project Development Studio: Physical Installations (ITP)
Sustainable Materials Research Lab (ITP)
Thesis (ITP)