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Jeanyoon Choi (b.1999) is a Computational Artist researching in interconnectivity and complexity through Multi-Device Web Artworks.
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An Echo
2022 | HTML
Web Collage expressing the nonlinearlity of future
We are anxious about the future. We’d like to keep the upcoming future under our control, so we attend conferences or subscribe to magazines that present a predictable future marketed under a name of ‘future insight’, when paradoxically, the anxiousness towards the future should have been triggered by its unpredictable nature.
Influenced by Marcel Duchamp(Tu m’), Henri Bergson(Inverted Cone), Friedrich Nietzsche(The camel and the baby), Lee Kun-Hee(Change everything except Spouse and Children), Jeff Bezos(Smile) and Elon Musk(Non-linear Tesla Stock), this interactive web artwork collages numerous signs and icons to contrast the character of short-term future(situated in the left of the screen) from the long-term future(situated in the right), criticising the former and valuing the latter.
According to Greek Mythology, a nymph called Echo could only repeat the last words spoken to her due to the curse of Hera. The artwork An Echo(Not to be confused with ‘Adecco’) criticises our tendency to act like an Echo when dealing with the future, not trying to affirm the randomness and thus overcome the uncertainty in a Nietzschestic manner, but instead, trying to predict the unpredictable by repeatedly projecting what happened in the near past into a near future.
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Interactive Multi-Device Web Artworks where audiences interact with surrounding screens and projections from their own mobile phones.
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Jeanyoon Choi
Jeanyoon Choi (b. 1999) is a Korean computational artist and researcher. He designs and researches multi-device web artworks that reflect the complexity of contemporary socio-technological systems, including AI, algorithmic culture, and economic structures. By interconnecting mobile devices and screens, these artworks create provocatively interactive environments. To develop their conceptual foundations, he draws on art, philosophy, and his scientific background, then uses software engineering and design to translate these ideas into interactive experiences.
He holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from Seoul National University and an MA in Information Experience Design from the Royal College of Art, and is currently a PhD candidate at KAIST's Experience Design Lab (XD Lab). He has also taught Computational Design Practices in the Interaction Design Department at K-Arts (Korea National University of Arts). His work has been exhibited internationally at Ars Electronica, Istanbul Digital Arts Festival, IKLECTIK London, Centre Culturel Coréen, and KAIST Art Museum. His papers have been published in the proceedings of ACM DIS and in the Leonardo journal (MIT Press), and he has served as an academic reviewer for ACM TEI, NeurIPS Creative AI, and Digital Creativity.
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