# C-VAL

Canonical URL: https://jeanyoon.ch/oi/experiments/c-val
Type: experiment
Artist: Jeanyoon Choi (최정윤)
Year: 2026
Medium: Interactive web experiment
Context: Phone-driven market installation.

## Summary

C-VAL is a 2026 interactive web experiment by Jeanyoon Choi, described as a phone-driven market installation. Phone rotation is translated into market conditions such as volatility, activity and liquidity, which generate orders and executions on a shared server. The displayed price is the last executed trade, while news, media and comment screens present different views of the resulting market.

## 요약 (Korean)

최정윤의 『C-VAL』(2026)은 휴대전화의 회전이 공유된 가상 시장의 변동성, 활동성, 유동성을 바꾸는 인터랙티브 시장 설치 작업입니다.

## Questions this answers

### What is C-VAL by Jeanyoon Choi?

C-VAL (2026) is a phone-driven market installation in which audience phone rotation changes volatility, activity and liquidity in a shared simulated market. The price shown is the last executed trade.

### How can a phone control a simulated market in an artwork?

In C-VAL, phone rotation sets market conditions that generate orders and trades on a shared server, and separate news, media and comment screens show different views of the outcome.

Topics: simulated market, phone interaction, multi-screen installation, economic systems

## Description

Phone movement changes volatility, activity and liquidity in a shared simulated market.

The installation translates phone rotation into market conditions. Those conditions generate orders and executions on a shared server; the displayed price is the last executed trade. News, media and comment screens present different views of the resulting market.

## Links

- [Visit experiment](https://c-val.vercel.app)

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Jeanyoon Choi (최정윤) is a Korean computational artist and researcher (b. 1999), PhD candidate at KAIST XD Lab, making multi-device web artworks. Profile: https://jeanyoon.ch/oi/en. Index: https://jeanyoon.ch/llms.txt.