# 복사-원본 관계가 없는 지도

Canonical URL: https://jeanyoon.ch/oi/texts/banpo-xism-artist-notes-2025-07-28
Type: essay / research note
Author: Jeanyoon Choi (최정윤)
Date: 2025-07-28

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On the grid

A revolt against all "grid-ness", all "simulacra"! 2D and 3D space. Density, flexibility, relation, network, heterogeneity. Interaction, then wave-ness or wave function, then output format.

Multi-device: different surface expressions of the same relational, topological structure. Or surface expressions of parts of a closely connected relational structure (a feedback loop). This is why the first-order and second-order effects look separate but are actually closely connected.

Contrasting: Banpo-Xism, the Dream of Squares. Beneath it there is no rhizomatic relation or structure. Individual grid = the property of the node itself.

A passage I copied (from Jang Yong-soon): "Architects come to realise that the problem of circulation is closely bound up with architecture, and that the real problems of the city arise not from the composition of the forms of objects but from systems, organisation, networks and infrastructure. They learned that the working of the city depends, more than on the quality of the buildings themselves, on the system of circulation infrastructure and the quality of public space. In this situation the problem of architecture is no longer a problem of the object but of relations, and the idea arises naturally that the character of the object is determined by relations, and that form is determined by structure. This awareness of structure and relation gradually seeped into architecture."

Diagrams and connectivity, and the dynamics, the arrows beneath them. A new understanding of the map, drawing maps anew, drawing maps relationally: psychogeography.

Map and city: covering the city with the map? Reconstructing the map and the city. Resetting topological structures and relations? By changing the topological structure, out of the traditional city, the 2D map, 3D modelling (all of which "represent" reality), a space is born that rests on collage-like, psychogeographic, bricolage-like, distorted topological relations (a 3D space, but not a "representational" one).

The principle of cartography (cartographie) (Deleuze, via Jang Yong-soon), as I copied it:

"The map changes itself, without any copy-original relation. This principle of cartography connects with the diagram in Foucault and Deleuze that we looked at earlier. The diagram, a space of variation that is constantly altered and generated, is precisely the map, which 'can be torn, reversed and montaged'. The rhizome has the character of this map, of the diagram, and of the abstract machine at once. While the tree keeps the copy-original relation of a copy representing an original, the rhizome has the character of being endlessly transformed and varied."

"Perhaps Deleuze took his inspiration for this principle of cartography from The Naked City (Situationist International). (...) Such a map does not exist as a representation of the world; it is an operation aimed at creation without an original."

"If the map is opposed to the tracing, it is because it throws its whole body into experimentation in contact with the real. The map itself belongs to the rhizome. The map is open. It can be connected in all its dimensions. It can be dismantled, reversed, endlessly modified. It can be torn, reversed, adapted to any montage, and drawn up by an individual, a group or a social formation. It can be drawn on a wall, conceived as a work of art, or constructed as a political action or a meditation." (Deleuze and Guattari.)

Designing the interaction

Simple is the best. Two levels:
- Currently selected: an immediate sound effect, an immediate change.
- Selected: composing and organising the urban structure. The groundwork of a mesh in which emergence can happen.
Formed immediately, in the first place, by playing the instrument; and in the second place, ongoing emergence is also sustained.

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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.