Kyong Park is an acting associate professor of Public Culture in the department of Visual Arts at UC San Diego. As a member of the Lost Highway Expedition (a temporary self-organized society that exchanges knowledge and resources and that navigates the new and dynamic territories of the Western Balkans), he is the founding director of Centrala Foundation for Future Cities in Rotterdam (the Netherlands). The editor of Urban Ecology: Detroit and Beyond (2004), Park is the founding director of the International Center for Urban Ecology in Detroit and the founder and former director of Storefront for Art and Architecture in NYC. He co-curated Shrinking Cities at Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin (2004) and curated part of the Gwangju Biennial in South Korea (1997). His current project is New Silk Roads, an exploration into the transformation of urban landscapes between Istanbul and Tokyo, which will be presented, in 2009, as a solo exhibition at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León in León (Spain), and will be published in an upcoming issue of Atlántica magazine and as a book project in 2009.
