Jiwon Ham
I design interactive experiences where digital meets physical.
I bring digital technology into physical spaces — turning the stories of global brands and cultural institutions into interactive experiences, from one-night activations to permanent installations.
I love solving problems through storytelling and transforming physical spaces through digital integration.
I believe unforgettable experiences invite people to participate, engage their senses, and discover something new. I explore this theme to uncover the connections between people, art, and technology.
- Location
- New York City
- Current role
- Senior Experience Designer, Red Paper Heart
- Also
- Media artist for media façades and projection mappings
- Languages
- Korean, English
What I do
Services
Spatial & Interaction Design
Designing how people move through and act on a physical space.
Projection & Motion Graphics
Content and motion systems built for large-scale and site-specific display.
Experience Storytelling
Shaping the narrative arc of an installation from entry to takeaway.
Creative Technology
Prototyping and directing the interactive systems behind an experience.
Content & Visual Language
Establishing a visual system that holds together across media.
Permanent Installations
Long-term, museum- and brand-grade builds designed to hold up over years.
All work
Projects
RPH client project
Energy Quest 2.0
Energy Quest 2.0 is the interactive centerpiece of Liberty Science Center's renewable energy gallery renovation. Designed for children, it turns the scientific fact that renewable energy can meet global demand into something they discover for themselves through play.
RPH client project
Climate Time Machine
Climate Time Machine is a digital telescope for the Our Hudson Home gallery. Augmented over the real Hudson River, it reveals a digitally recreated landscape from 22,000 years ago to 100 years ahead, showing how climate has reshaped the river and how human choices will shape it next.
Michigan Central OPEN
OPEN marked the reopening of Michigan Central Station after nearly four decades. For the 100,000-plus visitors who came through, we created digital and physical artworks that carry the building's history into its next chapter.
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Data Defense
Data Defense turns Chrome's security features into a game. On a touch table at the booth entrance, visitors race the clock to hunt viruses. The game is the hook, and the booth carries them on through Chrome's services and into conversation with docents, all as one continuous experience.
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Power of Water
Power of Water is a 90-second immersive artwork for Ecolab's centennial, celebrating the material at the heart of the company's business. Water shifts between ice, liquid, and vapor in a real-time physics simulation that responds to visitors' movement, immersing them to feel them.
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Impact Spark
Impact Spark is the welcome piece for Ecolab's centennial celebration, visualizing guest check-ins, overall participation, and a celebration moment in real time.
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Transformation
In collaboration with Gensler, we created the digital content for Transformation Zone, the opening act of LG Display's transparent OLED exhibit. Our visual system makes transparency the subject, blending screen into space across a theater, an interactive screen, and a wall display.
Visitors browse T-OLED use cases on an interactive screen, then tap one to play it in the immersive theater. Thin beams of light thread through the content, drawing the eye across the bezels and revealing the different scenarios of a T-OLED screen in space.
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Living Walls
Living Walls showcases T-OLED as a building material in an office setting. For glass room dividers and lobby walls, we developed animations that keep the space open and light-filled while letting each surface change with the moment, from a welcome at reception to privacy during a call.
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Day / Jour
Day / Jour is a digital sculpture driven by thousands of sensors across Microsoft's Canada headquarters. Each hour, a new ring shaped by the building's live data is added to a 24-ring form, rendering a full day as an ever-changing artwork within the lobby's architecture.
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Art Clock
Art Clock is a web-based analog clock curated by its users from the Smithsonian Open Access collection. Every minute, the clock face changes to a visitor-submitted artwork whose composition matches the hour and minute hands, reframing a 20,000-image archive as something to explore rather than search.
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The Bells Grove
The Bells Grove is a 30-foot bell sculpture that responds to visitors' movement with 600 interactive bulbs and sound. Inviting anyone to play with a symbolic holiday sculpture, it was built as a semi-permanent piece, designed to be reinstalled every season for five years.
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