About my research

My research takes the surface as its main object: biological, sartorial, architectural, and digital surfaces as sites where identity is negotiated and power is contested. I introduce a method I call Surface Poetics, which attends to thresholds and edges rather than any hidden depths, reading surfaces for their 'seams' and 'scars' as material evidence of the systems that produced them, such as colonialism or capitalism. Marking and wearing recur throughout my work as practice through which individuals and collectives contest displacement and reclaim agency.

All Stories

  1. Article
    Digital Fashion Values: AI Social Listening of Sociopolitical Consciousness
    Dr YeSeung Lee
  2. Article
    Digital fashion needs critical thinking, not just revolutionary slogans
    Dr YeSeung Lee
  3. Article
    From passivity to agency: audience participation in fashion shows
    Dr YeSeung Lee
  4. Article
    The white hanbok as a floating symbol of Korean identity through crisis and conflict
    Dr YeSeung Lee
  5. Article
    Surface is mediatic space where materials, humans, and technology make each other
    Dr YeSeung Lee
  6. Article
    Surface as method: a new framework for materials, humans and technology
    Dr YeSeung Lee
  7. Article
    Working the trap: Biotechnology and surveillance get under our skin
    Dr YeSeung Lee
  8. Article
    Worn in: How the clothes and textiles we live with make us feel at home
    Dr YeSeung Lee
  9. Article
    The power of plain: How minimalist fashion became the ultimate status symbol
    Dr YeSeung Lee
  10. Article
    Seamlessness
    Dr YeSeung Lee
  11. Article
    The Toile Ego
    Dr YeSeung Lee
  12. Article
    The Garment Ego
    Dr YeSeung Lee
  13. Article
    Here and Now
    Dr YeSeung Lee
  14. Article
    Auratic Objects
    Dr YeSeung Lee
  15. Article
    Seamless? Fashion, skin and the unconscious making of self
    Dr YeSeung Lee
  16. Article
    Seaming as luxury: how handmade fashion makes us think
    Dr YeSeung Lee