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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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Audio-Visual Disentanglement
2024-08-13
A designed experience can become a kind of pseudo-Dionysian kitsch. Marvel, Disney, blockbuster films and recommendation algorithms package an appetite for excess into predictable, reproducible forms—something like fast food for that appetite. They imitate the force of an earlier experience and manufacture its effects.
An uncomfortable experience could begin by imitating that imitation. Everything initially seems familiar and pleasurable, then something fails to line up. People are visibly laughing, but the sound is a carefully composed scream. A bright image has a dark soundtrack. Or an exceptionally gentle, helpful synthetic voice accompanies a rigid field of numbers.
For the KAIST opening exhibition, I imagined generated text and speech that remain friendly at the surface while the image becomes a Matrix-like torrent of numbers. The mismatch could expose the numerical construction beneath AI’s personable appearance.
Audiovisual separation has to be composed precisely. An arbitrary mismatch may achieve little. In an interactive work, I can make the relationship itself unfold: image and sound begin tightly coupled, drift apart as the participant acts, and finally break into different structures.
Software provides another way to make this happen. Establish an algorithmic relationship, then introduce a variable that destabilises it. In Ω, videos initially rotate together in an ordered arrangement. As the structure breaks apart, those same rotational movements intensify its disorder.
A relation that holds under ordinary conditions can accelerate collapse when an exceptional event arrives. The connections do not simply fail; they become the route through which failure spreads. Designing such algorithmic relationships is central to my practice.
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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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