# 참고로 민구홍은…

Born March 5, 1985. I received formal Montessori education in 1989, around the age of five. I first encountered a computer, a Macintosh LC, in 1991, around the age of seven, and made my first website for a dear friend in 1995, around the age of eleven. I studied literature and linguistics at Chung-Ang University and computer programming at the School for Poetic Computation (SFPC) in the US (though I prefer to call it “literature and linguistics in a narrow sense,” or simply “poetic computation”), and learned various practical skills, including knot tying, ikebana, and design, through Google. I worked as a researcher in Professor Ahn Sang-soo’s laboratory at Hongik University (also known as “Wing House”) (despite the title, there was hardly any work to do). After working in the Publishing Division at Ahn Graphics, I work as an editor, designer, and programmer at Workroom (though I try to stick to “editor”: I still have plenty of business cards bearing that title, and all three jobs require thorough editorship), planning books such as Practical Books and Ametora and building websites large and small. Meanwhile, I run the one-person company Min Guhong Manufacturing. (Min Guhong Manufacturing, which lives parasitically on its operator’s workplace, works alone or with institutions, organizations, businesses, and individuals inside and outside art and design, focusing on introducing the company itself in various ways.) I discuss and teach coding from the perspective of “practical yet conceptual writing” at New Order, a self-described “cultural course for modern people.” I have given lectures and workshops large and small at Kaywon University of Art and Design, Asia Culture Center, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Kookmin University, Nanji Art Studio, The Book Society, Tokyo University of the Arts, Studio Pie, Workroom, Ewha Womans University, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul National University, the University of Seoul, Chwimiga, Fruitful School, Hongik University, Korea National University of Arts, and whatreallymatters, among others. I teach at Paju Typography Institute, whose founding I also took part in. Books I have written include New Order (Mediabus, 2019). Books I have translated include Forget All the Rules About Graphic Design. Including the Ones in This Book. (Studio Ghost, 2017). Wigo invited me to write Anyway, HTML, but it never made it to publication. My favorite fruits, in order of size, are watermelon, melon, peach, fig, and cherry. Since 2021, I have been active as a member of Aurora, formed with Kim Hyungjin and Yoon Yulli.

![“Min Guhong Manufacturing is another model for working.”](https://minguhong.fyi/images/mgmfg-business-model.jpg)
![“‘Manufacturing’ generally means the industry of mass-producing goods by processing raw materials with human or mechanical labor. In baseball, however, it can also mean scoring through stolen bases, advancing outs, sacrifices, and other means besides hits. I tend to believe that naming is the most important part of most things. I wanted the company name to express a will to practice the functionalism and opportunism contained in the word ‘manufacturing.’”](https://minguhong.fyi/images/mgmfg-baseball-manufacturing.jpg)
![“Give Me Your Love”, 2019. “What if your love could take material form?”](https://minguhong.fyi/images/mgmfg-give-me-your-love.png)
![“Homework”, Art Sonje Center, 2019–, Jeon Hyokyung. “A museum’s self-performing platform in response to an epidemic?”](https://minguhong.fyi/images/homework.png)
![“Nanji Art Studio,” Seoul Museum of Art, 2019–2021, Jung Siwoo and Jung Jiwon. “Just how long will Nanji Art Studio’s special love of softness last?”](https://minguhong.fyi/images/nanji-2019-1.png)
![“Nanji Art Studio,” Seoul Museum of Art, 2019–2021, Jung Siwoo and Jung Jiwon. “Just how long will Nanji Art Studio’s special love of softness last?”](https://minguhong.fyi/images/nanji-2019-2.png)
![“Nanji Art Studio,” Seoul Museum of Art, 2019–2021, Jung Siwoo and Jung Jiwon. “Just how long will Nanji Art Studio’s special love of softness last?”](https://minguhong.fyi/images/nanji-2020.png)
![“Nanji Art Studio,” Seoul Museum of Art, 2019–2021, Jung Siwoo and Jung Jiwon. “Just how long will Nanji Art Studio’s special love of softness last?”](https://minguhong.fyi/images/nanji-2021.png)
![“Rabbit Hole”, Asia Plant Asia 2020: Rabbit Direction Object, 2020, Yoon Yulli and TechCapsule. “An online docent or an adventure game?”](https://minguhong.fyi/images/hare-hole.png)
![“Virus Simulator”, DDDD and Left Gallery, 2020. “What if I became a virus?”](https://minguhong.fyi/images/virus-simulator-1.png)
![“Virus Simulator”, DDDD and Left Gallery, 2020. “What if I became a virus?”](https://minguhong.fyi/images/virus-simulator-2.png)
![“Jellyfish”, Jellyfish, 2020. “What if the ocean’s depth were converted into pixels?”](https://minguhong.fyi/images/haepaary.png)
![“What Is Poetry, or What Is It Not,” Next Poetry Festival, Public Ground, 2020, Yoo Heekyung and Song Seungeon. “What is poetry, or what is it not?”](https://minguhong.fyi/images/what-is-poetry.png)
![“ACC Project Lab”, Asia Culture Center, 2020–, Chae Moonjung. “What if an art institution’s logo itself became a website?”](https://minguhong.fyi/images/acc-project-lab.png)
![“Publishing as a Method”, Art Sonje Center, 2021, The Book Society. “What methodological problems arise when trying to recreate the offline online?”](https://minguhong.fyi/images/publishing-as-method.png)
![“Lee Hanbeom”, Lee Hanbeom, 2021. “Almost everything about art critic, curator, and editor Lee Hanbeom?”](https://minguhong.fyi/images/lee-hanbum.png)
![“Kim Jisun”, Kim Jisun, 2021. “Kim Jisun’s time?”](https://minguhong.fyi/images/kim-jisun.png)
![“Euljiro Museum,” Euljiro Exit 99, Baedal Minjok, 2021, Park Kwangeun, Shin Haeok, Tissue Office, Hong Eunjoo, Chae Hyesun, and others. “Baedal Minjok’s memories of Euljiro…”](https://minguhong.fyi/images/euljiro-museum-1.png)
![“Euljiro Museum,” Euljiro Exit 99, Baedal Minjok, 2021, Park Kwangeun, Shin Haeok, Tissue Office, Hong Eunjoo, Chae Hyesun, and others. “Baedal Minjok’s memories of Euljiro…”](https://minguhong.fyi/images/euljiro-museum-2.png)
![“2,350 Euljiro Typefaces,” Euljiro Exit 99, Baedal Minjok, 2021, Park Kwangeun, Shin Haeok, Tissue Office, Hong Eunjoo, Chae Hyesun, and others. “Time usually flows, but it also accumulates in letters.”](https://minguhong.fyi/images/euljiro-2350.png)
![“Seoul Record Fair”, Seoul Record Fair, 2021, Lee Jaemin. “What if a website gathered ten years of the Seoul Record Fair?”](https://minguhong.fyi/images/srf.png)
![“Glass Blocks: Prototype”, Insa Art Space, 2021, Sosa. “Recognizing the importance of recording the stories of genders excluded from the center—including Korean women, sexual minorities, and those marginalized by digital technology—we are investigating the decentralized structures of Donghak and blockchain and their intersections through the philosophy of technology. Throughout the project, we aim to generate process-centered communication and discourse and, in the long term, expand Korean art internationally and technologically.”](https://minguhong.fyi/images/mirror-block-prototype.png)
![“Chung Seoyoung”, Chung Seoyoung, 2021, Kang Moonsik and Lee Hanbeom. “A catalogue raisonné that can be updated at any time, thanks to the web?”](https://minguhong.fyi/images/chungseoyoung-1.png)
![“Chung Seoyoung”, Chung Seoyoung, 2021, Kang Moonsik and Lee Hanbeom. “A catalogue raisonné that can be updated at any time, thanks to the web?”](https://minguhong.fyi/images/chungseoyoung-2.png)
![“Chung Seoyoung”, Chung Seoyoung, 2021, Kang Moonsik and Lee Hanbeom. “A catalogue raisonné that can be updated at any time, thanks to the web?”](https://minguhong.fyi/images/chungseoyoung-3.png)
![“Ob/Scene”, Ob/Scene, 2021, Sulki and Min. “An Ob/Scene three-piece set?”](https://minguhong.fyi/images/ob-scene-1.png)
![“Ob/Scene”, Ob/Scene, 2021, Sulki and Min. “An Ob/Scene three-piece set?”](https://minguhong.fyi/images/ob-scene-2.png)
![“Time of the Earth: Virtual Projected Particles”, MMCA Gwacheon, 2021, TechCapsule. “The website translates and projects Time of the Earth, an exhibition embodying ecological values in both theme and form, into a digital medium. Every element of the exhibition’s terrain is rendered as a virtual circular particle, and visitors float freely through the unfolding scene, erasing the boundaries and gravity of reality.”](https://minguhong.fyi/images/earth-time.png)
![“You’re Laurel, Right?”, 2022. “How can a single hyperlink celebrate Laurel’s birthday each year?”](https://minguhong.fyi/images/you-are-laurel-right.png)
![“An Exhibition with Almost No Information”, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, 2022, Lee Kyungsoo. “How can a response to an artwork with almost no information become an artwork?”](https://minguhong.fyi/images/little-information-1.png)
![“An Exhibition with Almost No Information”, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, 2022, Lee Kyungsoo. “How can a response to an artwork with almost no information become an artwork?”](https://minguhong.fyi/images/little-information-2.png)
![“An Exhibition with Almost No Information”, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, 2022, Lee Kyungsoo. “How can a response to an artwork with almost no information become an artwork?”](https://minguhong.fyi/images/little-information-3.jpg)
![“An Exhibition with Almost No Information”, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, 2022, Lee Kyungsoo. “How can a response to an artwork with almost no information become an artwork?”](https://minguhong.fyi/images/little-information-comments-1.png)
![“An Exhibition with Almost No Information”, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, 2022, Lee Kyungsoo. “How can a response to an artwork with almost no information become an artwork?”](https://minguhong.fyi/images/little-information-comments-2.png)
![“An Exhibition with Almost No Information”, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, 2022, Lee Kyungsoo. “How can a response to an artwork with almost no information become an artwork?”](https://minguhong.fyi/images/little-information-comments-3.png)
![A precious gift from a client. “Where is Min Guhong Manufacturing?” (Pointing to my chest) “Here.”](https://minguhong.fyi/images/mgmfg-where-is-min-guhong-manufacturing.jpg)