# 자연스러운 의미의 층이 필요하다

Canonical URL: https://jeanyoon.ch/oi/texts/banpo-xism-artist-notes-2025-07-01
Type: essay / research note
Author: Jeanyoon Choi (최정윤)
Date: 2025-07-01

## Full text

A case from the MIT Media Lab: a mechanism where you post a tweet directly from your phone and it gets transmitted. In this demo, this is the part people find amazing: when you actually send a tweet from your phone right beside it, it really affects the city landscape in real time. Showing this causality makes people interested (they experience the system's operating principle directly).

So, rather than morphing the 3D itself, a narrative of the form: when you do some interaction, some creative activity in the city, it emergently and cumulatively affects the whole city...

The same for YDP: a natural semantic layer of interaction is needed. And this is possible only on the basis of a complete, humanistic understanding of the city and of the city's emergence, through "realisation" and "anguish" (beonnoe).

A design where people just do instrumental interaction on their phones haphazardly, randomly, and it moves the surrounding screens (without much strong semantic or contextual connection) lacks appeal and persuasiveness. Better: you do a specific interaction (like the tweet), it turns out (as a result) to be instrumental, and at the same time the semantics of that specific interaction change the screens contextually and naturally...

MIT CityScope. Rasterisation is an option. An example of a Multi-Device Web Artwork.

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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.