# KAIST Art Museum Opening Media Art Exhibition

Canonical URL: https://jeanyoon.ch/oi/projects/kaist-art-museum-opening-exhibition
Type: project (collaboration / commission)
Period: 2024–2025
Role of Jeanyoon Choi: Artist, Concept Designer, Visualization Designer, Software Engineer
Context: KAIST XD Lab · KAIST Art Museum
Location: KAIST Art Museum, Daejeon, South Korea

## Summary

The KAIST Art Museum Opening Media Art Exhibition ran from 17 December 2024 to 30 June 2025 at the KAIST Art Museum in Daejeon, South Korea. KAIST Experience Design Lab (XD Lab) presented SoTA (State-of-the-Art), an interactive explainable-AI multi-device web artwork that visualises 118 neural network architectures, created by Jeanyoon Choi with Euan Kang, SeJoon Park, Minhyeok Seo and Prof. Yiyun Kang. Jeanyoon Choi worked as artist, concept designer, visualization designer and software engineer from June to December 2024 and gave an artist talk at the museum in 2024. An in-situ visitor study at the exhibition was published at ACM DIS 2026 with an Honourable Mention.

## 요약 (Korean)

KAIST 미술관 개관 미디어 아트 전시(대전, 2024년 12월 17일–2025년 6월 30일)에서 KAIST XD Lab은 『SoTA』를 선보였으며, 최정윤은 작가·콘셉트 디자이너·시각화 디자이너·소프트웨어 엔지니어로 참여했습니다.

## Questions this answers

### What did Jeanyoon Choi show at the KAIST Art Museum opening exhibition?

SoTA (State-of-the-Art), an interactive explainable-AI multi-device web artwork by Jeanyoon Choi with Euan Kang, SeJoon Park, Minhyeok Seo and Prof. Yiyun Kang of KAIST XD Lab, shown from 17 December 2024 to 30 June 2025.

### What was Jeanyoon Choi's role in the KAIST Art Museum opening exhibition?

He was artist, concept designer, visualization designer and software engineer for SoTA (June–December 2024) and gave an artist talk at the KAIST Art Museum in 2024.

Topics: media art exhibition, explainable AI, neural network architectures, multi-device web artwork, public AI engagement

References: KAIST Art Museum, KAIST XD Lab (Experience Design Lab), SoTA, [ACM DIS 2026](https://doi.org/10.1145/3800645.3812889)

## Description

The opening media art exhibition of the KAIST Art Museum in Daejeon, held from 17 December 2024 to 30 June 2025. KAIST XD Lab presented SoTA, an interactive explainable-AI (XAI) multi-device web artwork about contemporary neural network architectures.

Jeanyoon Choi created SoTA with Euan Kang, SeJoon Park, Minhyeok Seo and Prof. Yiyun Kang, working as artist, concept designer, visualization designer and software engineer from June to December 2024, and gave an artist talk at the KAIST Art Museum in 2024. An in-situ study with visitors to the exhibition was published at ACM DIS 2026, where it received an Honourable Mention.

## Links

- [KAIST Art Museum: SoTA](https://art.kaist.ac.kr/doc/en/curExhibit.do?docSeq=3755)
- [Project website](https://sota-xdlab.net/)

Related artwork: https://jeanyoon.ch/oi/artworks/sota
Related paper: SoTA: An Interactive Art Exhibition for Public AI Engagement: https://jeanyoon.ch/oi/research/sota

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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. Index: https://jeanyoon.ch/llms.txt.