Curriculum Vitae

Education
  • MFA Creative Technologies, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA. USA
  • Photography, Portfolio Center at Miami Ad School, Atlanta, GA. USA
  • BS, Horticulture, Spanish Minor, Korea University, Seoul, Korea

Presentations & Exhibitions

  • 4th BW Athens Photography Festival, February 2026, Athens, Greece
  • Tucker, T.; Choi, D.; Wyatt, A.; Kennedy, B.; Wanderley, M. (McGill, Spatial Audio); Krishna, S. (McGill, Neuroscience); Xu, Y. (Bowling Green State Univ.); Swarts, M. (Georgia Tech); Judson, T. (Univ. of Washington); Hodge, J.; Finn, M.; Dechow, S.; Botsford, C.; Berry, K.; Dunn, E.; Kolli, A.; Menendez, E.; Austin, M. S.; Coleman, A.; Lee, J.; DeRolf, C.; O’Neal, B. (Faculty Advisor) DROSERA OBSCURA; A Multi-Sensory XR Installation and Performance Collaboration, November 2025, Virginia Tech’s Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT). Drosera Obscura merges VIRTUAL REALITY, ANIMATRONICS, SOUND, SCENT, AND TOUCH into a single immersive performance. This interdisciplinary collaboration between Virginia Tech’s Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT) and McGill University’s CIRMMT redefines how audiences experience narrative and presence through technology, movement, and live performance.
  • Interactive Live Use of Video/Document to F8VPS,VR Video and document workflow to the F8VPS and BabylonJS system. World 16 VR Summer Workshop, July 2025, Sapienza Universita de Roma, Rome, Italy
  • Tucker, T., Swartz, M., Choi, D., Judson, T., Kennedy, B., Kubalak, J., Xu, Y., et al. ICAT Playdate: Drosera Obscura, Blacksburg, VA. April 18, 2025 Drosera Obscura is an immersive XR installation that merges virtual reality, animatronics, sound design, olfactory stimuli, and physical interaction to create a fully multi-sensory experience. This interdisciplinary collaboration pushes technological boundaries by integrating computational acoustics, adaptive interfaces, and immersive systems to redefine engagement.
  • Assembly, SOVA Faculty Triennial, Moss Arts Center, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA. April, 2025
  • 3rd BW Athens Photography Festival, February 2025, Athens, Greece
  • F8 VPS with VR180, The 17th International VR symposium, Forum 8 Design Festival, November 2024, Tokyo, Japan
  • F8 VPS with VR180; VR video as main context or background/texture, World 16 VR Summer Workshop, MIT, July 2024, Boston, US
  • 2nd BW Athens Photography Festival, February 2024, Athens, Greece
  • Visualizing Large Point Cloud Data , The 16th International VR symposium, Forum 8 Design Festival, November 2023, Tokyo, Japan
  • Show of the Heads, Limner Gallery, Hudson New York, October – November, 2023
  • MPxxx, Gallery at the Walker Fine Arts Building, Patrick & Henry Community College, Virginia, October – November, 2023
  • Visualizing Large Point Cloud Data inside F8VPS , World 16 VR Summer Workshop, Groningen Netherlands, July, 2023
  • Scenes: Seen, March 2023, Armory Gallery, Blacksburg, Virginia, US.
  • 1st BW Athens Photography Festival, February 2023, Athens, Greece
  • Pointing at Ourselves, November, 2002 – January 2023, The Woody Gaddis Gallery and The University of Central Oklahoma
  • FL3TCH3R Exhibit: Social & Politically Engaged Art, Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN. US., October – December 2022
  • Accessibility to Assistive Technology; Accessible VR-Design Studio as VR Tool to design and test for assistive devices, Tokyo Japan. July, 2022
  • Art 1004 Photography Exhibition, Curator, Blacksburg VA. May, 2022
  • We Are (not) Same, Faculty Triennial, Moss Arts Center, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA. April, 2022
  • Trees 2022, New York Center for Photographic Art, New York, NY. February, 2022
  • Art 1004 Photography Exhibition, Curator, Blacksburg VA. December, 2021
  • Virginia Tech Campus, Aerials. Exhibition, Creativity and Innovation District Living-Learning Program Residence Hall, Blacksburg VA. December 2021
  • Volumetric & Surface Calculation Using Point Cloud in UC-win/Road, The 14th International VR Symposium, Tokyo, Japan, November, 2021
  • Botanical Art and Illustration, 2021 – Online Exhibition., Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA. US., December, 2021
  • FL3TCH3R EXHIBIT, Social & Politically Engaged Art, Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN. US., October – December, 2021
  • Volumetric Analysis from Point-cloud, 12th International VR Summer Workshop, Online, July 2021
  • Portrait 2021, CICA Museum, Kimpo-si Korea, January – Feburary, 2021
  • Virtual World 16, Virtual Design Collaboration for the Intersection of Academia and Industry, Proceedings of the 26th International Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA) 2021, Paper 318 (Preprint). © 2021 and published by the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA), Hong Kong
  • 14th Forum 8 Design Festival, The Colors of Point-Cloud, Tokyo, Japan, presented online due to COVID, November 18-20, 2020
  • FL3TCH3R EXHIBIT, Social & Politically Engaged Art, Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN. US., October – December, 2020
  • Blackbox Gallery, Portrait: A Picture Show, Online, November, 2020
  • ”Water/Seascape” Online Art Competition Exhibition, Contemporary Art Gallery Online, August – September, 2020
  • Structure Query Tools to manage the colors of Point-cloud, 11th International VR Summer Workshop, Online, July 2020
  • Art 1004 Photography Exhibition, Curator, Blacksburg VA. December, 2019
  • The Progress of Construction via 3D Mapping, Paris, France, July, 2019
  • Art 1004 Photography Exhibition, Curator, Blacksburg VA. May, 2019
  • ACCelerate: ACC Smithsonian Creativity and Innovation Festival, Washington DC, April, 2019
  • Virtual Reality and Immersive Experiences of a Great War Battlefield, National Council for the Social Studies, Chicago, November, 2018
  • DigHill 80, 11th International VR Symposium, Tokyo, Japan, November, 2018
  • DigHill 80: Secrets of the Front Line, National Archives, London, United Kingdom, November, 2018. Dig Hill 80 team showed their recent excavations and a detailed presentation of the findings.
  • Yu, R., Duer, Z., Ogle, T., Bowman, D., Tucker, T., Hicks, D., Choi, D., et al. (2018) Experiencing an Invisible World War I Battlefield Through Narrative-Driven Redirected Walking in Virtual Reality. Paper presented at the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces, Reutlingen, Germany.
Paper published in the Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR), pp. 313-319.
  • Using Open Source Software for Quick and Affordable 3D Mapping, Victoria University, Wellington New Zealand, July, 2018. Alternative to high end lidar scan for quick useful implementation of 3D Mapping.
  • Instructional Technology SIG AERA, Applied Research in Immersive Environments for Learning, American Educational Research Association, New York, NY. April, 2018. Presentation of the work of virtual reality with data of Vauqouis.
  • ICAT Playdate: Visualizing World War I through Mixed Reality, Blacksburg, VA. October 2017 Group presentation of the work from a comprehensive site survey of the Hill of Vauquois, combining ground penetrating radar, photogrammetry, and laser scanning to create a digital recreation of the above and below ground features of the craters, trenches, tunnels, and galleries that allows us to see Vauquois as it has never been seen before. 360 degree video, animation, and virtual reality tells the story in an immersive experience.
  • Asclepius: Military, Medicine, and Creative Forces, Art Exhibition by Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, Roanoke, VA. Sep. – Nov. 2017
  • Dongsoo Choi: Photographs, Armory Gallery Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA. Aug-Sep. 2017. Two part photography exhibition of landscapes and the photos of the opera. Printed photographs and digital multi-faced projections. Co-curated with Deb Sim, gallery director.
  • Lidar Scanning Workflow, Forum 8 Summer Workshop, MIT Boston, MA. July 2017 Demonstrating fast, laser scanning and processing of the scanned data for use in UC/Win Road simulation program.
  • Sensing Place, ICAT Creativity and Innovation Day, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA. May 2017. User experience and interaction in Virtual and Augmented Reality research result from Vauquois, France
  • The Disappeared Village of Vauquois, Francis T. Eck Exhibition Corridor, Moss Arts Center, Blacksburg, VA. April – May 2017. Photography exhibition from the assignment in Vauquois, France
  • Susannah, Opera Roanoke, Roanoke, VA. April 2017. Projection designer for the Opera Roanoke’s Susannah by Carlise Floyd, performed at Jefferson Center in Roanoke VA. operaroanoke.org
  • Stepping into the past through visualization, Forum8 Design Festival, Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 2016. Detailed view of the 3D visualization of the World War I tunnels was presented to the group.
  • Drive with me: Traveling Shorts Film, SECAC VT, Roanoke, VA, Oct. 2016. The short film was presented during the SECAC VT 2016 events
  • Stepping into the past through visualization: Vauquois France, ICAT play date, Virginia Tech, Sep. 2016. Group presentation of Vauquois France project to brief what was to come, Photography and 3D scan data.
  • Photogrammetry, World 16 VR Symposium Workshop, Osaka, Japan, Jul. 2016. Through a photographer’s point of view, created and presented the use of photography for a successful photogrammetry.
  • 3D Visualization Workflow, Forum8 Design Festival, Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 2015. Based on Thessaloniki, Greece workshop, methodology of 3D workflow.
  • Visualizing Aristotelous Square, Thessaloniki, Greece, Jul. 2015. 3D visualization of the famous Aristotelous square as a part of a summer VR symposium.
  • Projection Mapping, Alberta College of Art + Design, Calgary, Canada, Sep. 2014. Co-presented, projection mapping using video/photography to the classes.

Awards

  • Academic Award, Forum8 Summer Workshop, Rome, Italy, Jul. 2025
  • Academic Award, Forum8 The 17th International VR Symposium, Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 2024
  • Academic Award, Forum8 Summer Workshop, Boston, USA, Jul. 2024
  • Academic Award, Forum8 The 16th International VR Symposium, Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 2023
  • Academic Award, Forum8 Summer Workshop, Groningen, Netherlands, Jul. 2023
  • Academic Award, Forum8 The 14th International VR Symposium, Tokyo, Japan Nov. 2021
  • Academic Award, Forum8 Summer Workshop, Tokyo, Japan Jul. 2021
  • Jack Schrader Award, 2020 FL3TCH3R EXHIBIT, Social & Politically Engaged Art, Nov. 2020
  • Academic Award, 12th Forum8 Design Festival, Tokyo, Japan Nov. 2018
  • Academic Award, Forum8 Summer Workshop, Wellington New Zealand Jul. 2018
  • ICAT Creativity and Innovation Day, At the Nexus Award, May 2017
  • Academic Award, Forum8 Design Festival, Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 2016
  • SEAD Grant for Roanoke Opera’s Susannah, Institute for Creativity and Technology, Virginia Tech, Dec. 2016

Research Experience & Interests

  • 16th International VR Summer Workshop, Rome, Italy, July 2025
  • ICAT SEAD grant proposal “Drosera Obscura:  A Multi-Sensory XR Installation and Performance”, Tucker,T., Brook, K., Kubalak, J., Choi, D., ICAT, Virginia Tech, October 2024,
  • 15th International VR Summer Workshop, Boston, US, July 2024
  • Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Day, October, 2023
  • 14th International VR Summer Workshop, Groningen, Netherlands, July 2023
  • Ensuring your secure digital assets are accessible, IAAP Webinar Series, June, 2023
  • Embracing the ethos of accessible built environments in emerging economies – stepping it up! IAAP Webinar Series, June, 2023
  • The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June, 2023
  • 13th International VR Summer Workshop, Tokyo, Japan, July 2022
  • 12th International VR Summer Workshop, Online, July 2021
  • 11th International VR Summer Workshop, Online, July 2020
  • World 16 Summer Workshop, Paris, France, Jul. 2019
  • Extending the reach and Revisiting the Destroyed World War I Sites; Butte de Vauquois, Vauqouis, France, & Wijtschate, Belgium, Jun. 2019
  • Charlie Brouwer, After the Last Supper Video Shoot and Projection Mapping, May, Blacksburg, VA. 2019
  • World 16 Summer Workshop, Wellington, New Zealand, Jul. 2018
  • DigHill80 World War I Archaeological Site, Wijtschate, Belgium, Jun. 2018
  • Experiencing an Invisible World War I Battlefield Through Narrative-Driven Redirected Walking in Virtual Reality, Publication, IEEE VR 2018.
  • Opera Roanoke, Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah, Projection Design, Jefferson Center Shaftman Performance Hall, Roanoke, VA. Apr. 2017
  • Forum8 Design Festival, Nov. 2016
  • Stepping into the past through visualization. Vauquois, France, Aug. 2016
  • World 16 VR Symposium Summer Workshop, Osaka, Japan, Jul. 2016
  • Topics in Digital Photography Exhibition, Curator, Newman Library, Virginia Tech, May 2016
  • Hoyoung 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Group Photo Exhibition, Seoul, Korea, May 2016
  • Projection Mapping CFA, Photography/Videography, Moss Arts Center, Virginia Tech, Jan. 2016
  • Forum8 Design Festival, Nov. 2015
  • World 16 VR Symposium Summer Workshop, Thessaloniki, Greece, Jun. 2015
  • An international VR symposium where members of “World 16” composed of researchers from all over the world in the fields of architecture, civil engineering, city planning, etc. have gathered to present and discuss proposals for using VR. The Summer Workshop, which started in Phoenix, USA in 2008, was first held in Japan the following year in 2009 in Hakone, Japan. Then it has been held around the world every year including in Boston MIT in 2017, in Paris, France in 2019, and in Groningen, Netherlands this year. The event will be held under the direction of Dr. Yoshihiro Kobayashi of Arizona State University with the presentation of the results of applied research and development and its application to FORUM8 products.
  • TEDx, Projection Mapping, Virginia Tech, Nov. 2014
  • Jack Singer Concert Hall, 3D visualization, Calgary, Canada, Sep. 2014
  • MFA Creative Technologist Exhibition, Co-curation, Armory Gallery, Virginia Tech, Jan. 2014
  • Smithsonian X 3D, Washington, DC, Nov. 2013
  • Signature Engineering Building, 3D Work, Virginia Tech, Oct. 2013
  • Center for the Arts, 3D scan, Virginia Tech, Sep. 2013; https://icat.vt.edu/gridalbum/icat-gallery
  • Marsh Project, Photographer, 3D scan, Sunset Beach, NC, Aug. 2013; http://carolburchbrown.com/Artists/199/SaltMarshSuite_TaubmanMuseum.pdf

Acknowledgement

  • Arts & Extras: Arias for everyone https://www.roanoke.com/arts_and_entertainment/arts/arts-extras-arias-for-everyone/article_7d8b657c-e577-561a-90c1-08c8b06efbdc.html
  • A festival that shows how to combine technology, creativity and innovation https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/a-festival-that-shows-how-to-combine-technology-creativity-and-innovation/2019/03/29/4df80224-4ff9-11e9-88a1-ed346f0ec94f_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.b6012f4e0657
  • Opera Roanoke’s Premier of Appalachian set “Susannah” http://wvtf.org/post/opera-roanokes-premier-appalachian-set-susannah#stream/0
  • Opera Roanoke deftly performs “Susannah” from joy to rage http://www.roanoke.com/features/opera-roanoke-deftly-performs-susannah-from-joy-to-rage/article_c50082cf-9177-5973-80cd-b806286aeb1d.html
  • VT research project allows people to experience life during World War I http://www.virginiafirst.com/news/local-news/vt-research-project-allows-people-to-experience-life-during-world-war-i/704397021

Teaching Experience

Virginia Tech
  • Digital Photography; School of Visual Arts, Virginia Tech. Fall; 2025
  • Digital Photography; School of Visual Arts, Virginia Tech. Spring; 2025
  • Principles of 4D Art & Design; School of Visual Arts, Virginia Tech. Fall; 2024
  • Intro to Photography; School of Visual Arts, Virginia Tech. Spring; 2024
  • Principles of 4D Art & Design; School of Visual Arts, Virginia Tech. Spring; 2024
  • Intro to Photography; School of Visual Arts, Virginia Tech. Fall; 2023
  • Principles of 4D Art & Design; School of Visual Arts, Virginia Tech. Fall; 2023, This course is an introduction to the elements and methods fundamental to digital art, design and time-based media.
  • Intro to Photography; School of Visual Arts, Virginia Tech. Spring; 2023
  • Principles of 4D Art & Design; School of Visual Arts, Virginia Tech. Fall; 2022
  • Photography for Non Majors; School of Visual Arts, Virginia Tech. Fall 2022
  • Photography for Non Majors; School of Visual Arts, Virginia Tech. Spring 2022
  • Photography for Non Majors; School of Visual Arts, Virginia Tech. Fall 2021
  • Photography for Non Majors; School of Visual Arts, Virginia Tech. Spring 2021
  • Photography for Non Majors; School of Visual Arts, Virginia Tech. Fall 2020
  • Photography for Non Majors; School of Visual Arts, Virginia Tech. Spring 2020
  • Photography for Non Majors; School of Visual Arts, Virginia Tech. Fall 2019
  • Photography for Non Majors; School of Visual Arts, Virginia Tech. Spring 2019
  • Independent Study: Street Photography; School of Visual Arts, Virginia Tech. Spring 2017, Taught street photography to a non-major student, brought up the level of appreciation for photography and the art of seeing
  • Independent Study: Portrait Photography; School of Visual Arts, Virginia Tech. Fall 2016, Taught a commercial, portrait photography business-minded student, elevated skill sets and experience levels of doing business, along with photography skills
  • Independent study: Conceptual Photography; School of Visual Arts, Virginia Tech. Fall 2016, Instructed what was geared for a design student who liked abstract and conceptual photography, taught how the concept, pre-visualization, and integration of photography/design works
  • Topics In Digital Photography; School of Visual Arts, Virginia Tech. Spring 2016, General class where many aspects of photography were discussed and practiced, including law related to photography and humanity’s use of photography
  • Independent study: Photography to inspiration of drawing; School of Visual Arts, Virginia Tech. Fall 2015, Taught a studio art student who liked drawing, motivated through photographs, general photography skills to artistic interpretations were discussed.
Portfolio Center, Miami Ad School Courses, Atlanta, GA, 1998 – 2010
  • Some of the courses taught on the topics:
  • Studio Still Life
  • Studio Portrait
  • Fashion – Studio and Locations
  • Large Format – Studio and Location
  • Location, Available and artificial lights
  • Photoshop for Photographers, and Designers
  • Digital Printing
  • Portfolio Building

Related Experience

  • Photographer, Dongsoo Choi Photography, 1997 to current
  • Photographer, Opera Roanoke, Roanoke Virginia, 2013 to current
  • Creative Technology and Computing Manager, School of Visual Arts, Virginia Tech, 2012 to current
  • IT Director & Photography Instructor, Portfolio Center, Atlanta, GA, 1999 to 2012
  • Press manager, Portfolio Center, Atlanta, GA, 2003 to 2012

Computer & Other Skills

  • Curator, and Curatorial Consultations, 2012 to current
  • Exhibition Design and Installations, 2012 to current
  • Federal Aviation Administration Small Unmanned Aircraft System Pilot Certification, 2019 to current
  • Adobe Creative Suite, Maya/Renderman, Cinema 4D, MadMapper, VDMX, Processing
  • Printing, Canon, Epson; Desktop to Large format
  • Xerox/Canon production printing, Fiery
  • Laser Cutter
  • 3D Printing, Fusion 360
  • CNC Manufacturing
  • Faro 3D Lidar scanner and SCENE software, 2012 to current
  • Photogrammetry; Metashape, Reality Capture, Recap Pro
  • FileMaker Database Developer, 2001 to current
  • HTML/CSS and Drupal/Wordpress, 2014 to current
  • All things Mac Hardware/macOS, iOS, 2000 to current
  • Windows Server/Client/ActiveDirectory/Samba, 2017 to current
  • Network/NAS/FreeBSD/Linux/Bacula, 2008 to current
  • Docker, 2020 to current
  • OpenOnDemand/AppTainer for High Performance Computing, 2020 to current