Her research focuses on the intersection among visual culture, media art, and computational technologies. She is especially interested in how machinic perception and embodied, planetary forms of mediation reconfigure aesthetic experience—how the entanglement of digital systems and human sensoria opens new understandings of depth, worlding, and inter-intelligence. Her teaching interests at Duke Kunshan include critical media theory, art–technology studies, XR/AR practices, and the aesthetics of computational media.

She has published articles, essays, and book chapters in numerous venues, including Media-N, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, the International Journal of Digital Humanities, and Phaidon’s From Postwar to Contemporary Korean Art (1953–Present)—reviewed by The New York Times—as well as leading journals and edited volumes in art history, digital culture, and media studies.

Choi holds an M.A. in visual culture theory from New York University and a Ph.D. in art history and visual studies from Duke University. She also earned a graduate certificate in Information Science + Studies at Duke, where she received advanced training in digital humanities. She has also served as co-director or PI for major grant-funded initiatives, including a multi-year National Research Foundation of Korea project on Digital Humanities City and several XR/AR public-heritage projects. Prior to joining Duke Kunshan, she worked at internationally recognized institutions such as ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe and Art Center Nabi, contributing to influential media-art exhibitions and digital-humanities research.