# 교차점에서 무엇이 일어나는가?

Canonical URL: https://jeanyoon.ch/oi/texts/banpo-xism-artist-notes-2025-06-18
Type: essay / research note
Author: Jeanyoon Choi (최정윤)
Date: 2025-06-18

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City metabolism? Architectural Metabolism? (Modular, a skeleton: similar to a structure where various devices, both mobile and output, can be plugged in and pulled out.)

The city is not a tree? This is an understanding of the city in which change never happens in an orderly way; rather, the city exists in a complex, messy state, "as if things overlapped by chance", so it is impossible to manipulate it artificially. "A complex and messy state, as if overlapping by chance."

Visual options

Option 1: a 3D cityscape plus collage. For example, a 3D city whose texture is text (The Legible City) or generative images and video. Facades. Something that does not obey the law of gravity? Virtual? Which visual, and why that visual? (Exaggerations like Super Mario's.)

Option 2: path and flux (the intersection).

The whole thing need not be a map. What is needed is one particular viewpoint, and a detailed description of that viewpoint (like Shibuya Crossing).

Interaction must be essentially tactile: within the phone (within the city, mobile) and in the phone-desktop interaction (within the installation, multi-device).

Within the city: AR? AR must not simply toss an object into the middle of things. The whole screen, the surroundings, should be augmented: literally a distortion of space. Rather than full AR (depiction through real-time detection), it might be fine if a distorted form of the cityscape just appears directly. Speculation on, and augmentation of, the environment itself.

The intersection

Each intersection: the point where all fluxes and flows cross.
Einbahnstrasse (One-Way Street): Walter Benjamin.
A road: directionality, from point A to point B. Similar to The Legible City?
Flux: fluxes cross each other and make a single flow.
"Walking a one-way street and catching the advertisements, buildings and events that brush past."
A kind of signpost, not boulevard-like thinking...
And this cityscape is pastiche and collage: urban structure, tissue and metabolism, network and structure, node-edge links.

What happens at the intersection? Which contingency, what kind of urban thing? Baudelaire: the flaneur. Benjamin: the stroller. Some collage. And interaction within it: while navigating, also doing real-time semantic interaction, also leaving long-term stored data. It must be very intuitive and still secure diverse modalities. A hyperlinked space, a node-link diagram, G(V, E). How do you navigate from one node to another? Is the navigating itself information?

Interaction: interaction like a piano. Fine to start as a percussion instrument, but after that it should keep triggering chords and interactions and make richer signification, a richer audiovisual collage. Simple choices should be possible, but countless combinations too. Aesthetic, sensory, somewhat obsessive.

Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology (Nintendo: Gunpei Yokoi).

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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.