# Oscillating Cultures

Canonical URL: https://jeanyoon.ch/oi/projects/oscillating-cultures
Type: project (collaboration / commission)
Period: 2023
Role of Jeanyoon Choi: Team Lead, AR Developer
Context: Snap AR × Royal College of Art
Location: London, United Kingdom

## Summary

Oscillating Cultures is a collaboration between Snap AR and the Royal College of Art, developed in London from February to September 2023. Jeanyoon Choi led the team, with Sabrina Tian and Nora, and developed the AR interaction. The multi-device work connects three phones so that interface choices on one generate face filters on the others, examining cultural classification, stereotypes and the feedback between interface choices and generated images.

## 요약 (Korean)

『Oscillating Cultures』(2023)는 스냅 AR과 영국 왕립예술학교의 협업 프로젝트로, 최정윤은 팀을 이끌고 AR 인터랙션을 개발했습니다.

## Questions this answers

### What was Jeanyoon Choi's role in Oscillating Cultures?

Jeanyoon Choi was team lead and AR developer for Oscillating Cultures, a Snap AR and Royal College of Art collaboration developed from February to September 2023.

### What does Oscillating Cultures examine?

It examines cultural classification and stereotypes, and the feedback between button-driven interface choices and generated face-filter images across three linked phones.

Topics: augmented reality, cultural stereotypes, multi-device artwork, face filters, team leadership

References: [Snap Inc.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snap_Inc.), [Royal College of Art](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_College_of_Art), Sabrina Tian

## Description

A collaboration with Snap AR and the Royal College of Art, developed from February to September 2023.

Jeanyoon Choi led the team and developed the AR interaction. The multi-device work examines cultural classification, stereotypes and the feedback between interface choices and generated images.

## Links

- [Watch video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbI2SSxFQWU)

Related experiment: https://jeanyoon.ch/oi/experiments/oscillating-cultures

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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.