Jeffrey T.K.V. Koh | UNSW (original) (raw)

Jeffrey has spent most of his life so far in Toronto, Canada but has managed to live, work and study in Zurich, London, Rotterdam, Berlin, Seoul, Singapore and Tokyo.

He is a trans-disciplinary experiential designer who has worked on catwalk and fashion show designs for PRADA and Miu Miu, advertising and gallery curation for KesselsKramer, and architecture and exhibition designs for the Office for Metropolitan Architecture / Rem Koolhaas.

Jeffrey is Co-Founder of Cliquefund. Cliquefund is a mobile, community patronage platform for socially-motivated startups. He was interviewed live on Channel News Asia in 2013 on the topic of crowdfunding. He was also featured on Digital News Asia and Tech in Asia.

As an artist, Jeffrey has exhibited in venues such as the Barbican and Southbank Centre in London, United Kingdom, for festivals such as the Singapore Design Festival, and in galleries in Munster, Berlin, Vienna, Crete and Tokyo.

As a scholar Jeffrey has performed demos, published papers and written book chapters in venues such as UBICOMP, CSCW, IEEE Haptics Symposium, SIGGRAPH, SIGDOC, ISMAR, ACM CIE, MONU Magazine and more. Jeffrey was an invited speaker at TEDx Zurich and PechaKucha, and has also spoken on panels at the ICA, The Art House Singapore, and other forums. He was also a PC member in ACE and UBICOMM, and was an invited reviewer for journals and conferences such as Leonardo, AHCI, DIS and CHI. Jeffrey has won awards for his research projects including the Creative Showcase Golden Award at ACE2010, and is a recipient of the NGS scholarship from the National University of Singapore.

In the past he studied Semiotics and Fashion Photography, and was awarded his BFA in Monumental Kunst from the Aki Academy of Art and Design (ArtEZ) in Enschede, the Netherlands and an MA in Creative Practice for Narrative Environments from Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design in London, United Kingdom.

He earned his PhD at the Keio-NUS CUTE Center, at the National University of Singapore and was a visiting research scholar at Keio University, and visiting research scholar at NEC C&C Laboratories, both in Japan, where his research interests focus on various topics regarding organic user interfaces, robotics, tele-presence dining and experiential design. He was also previously a Department Editor for the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Crossroads (XRDS) magazine. He is a Mendeley.com Advisor and is a member of both the IEEE and ACM.

Jeffrey works at UNSW Art & Design as an Associate Lecturer, conducting research with the Creative Robotics Laboratory at the National Institute for Experimental Arts.
Supervisors: Hang Chang Chieh and Ryohei Nakatsu

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