# ‘규칙의 파괴’가 아닌 ‘규칙의 과부하’

Canonical URL: https://jeanyoon.ch/oi/texts/banpo-xism-artist-notes-2025-07-31
Type: essay / research note
Author: Jeanyoon Choi (최정윤)
Date: 2025-07-31

## Full text

On sorting algorithms

Some structure, a given structure. The rearrangement and redistribution of this given structure: a sorting algorithm. It adjusts the topological, relational structure, not the "visible" structure but the "virtual" structure beneath it. And the city that results from adjusting this "virtual" structure, the city adjusted topologically and relationally, is closer to the city we actually live in, the city we can sense. Not the castrated city, the city on the Euclidean 2D map, the tree-city, Banpo Xi...

An aesthetic of topological rearrangement, automatic rearrangement.

Good interaction is instrumental. Start at first from just a blank screen with only a grid. And here, as visitors interact with their fingers... the castrated, abstracted urban structures begin to come alive and move. In the output: originally just a 2D map... only some of the tiles begin to pop up into 3D! Some circulating, grid-based rhythm... A system that originally worked well within its normal operating range... collapses under accelerating, excessive interaction (the system's rules stay as they are, but its operating range is exceeded). Emergent collapse, phase transition, passing the critical point. The birth of a new phase transition that appears not through "breaking the rules" but through "overloading the rules". The collapse of the Symbolic, the return of the Real.

Especially the multi-user co-oscillation, co-resonance effect. Resonance. Deleuzian resonance. The resonance of waves: Fourier interference, folding. "For Deleuze, resonance does not arise from a similarity that presupposes identity; it arises as an effect of differences. That is, it does not arise in subordination to a single idea, but is something that occurs after the fact between independent, heterogeneous terms." Intersections generated! Systems superposed! An Instagram reference: four tornado warnings at the same time. Beauty, naturalness, spontaneity, networkedness. Audiovisual harmony: Collective Opinion, collective resonance.

Redesigning the map, reconstructing it topologically

Through strolling, instrumental interaction: a psychogeographic rearrangement of the "map" (the 2D, representational map).
2D real-estate map → a three-dimensional 3D map
(physical) adjacency → (semantic) adjacency
Sorting algorithm.
Proving instead the diversity of the city, where far-apart things, distant objects are tangled together.

Differences of perspective: semantics too can be reinterpreted from many different viewpoints. Everything can be redesigned by physical height, year built, function, relation to surroundings, length of the building's name (NLP-like similarity), whether there is a Starbucks, and so on. A once-uniform system, a system that had been running. A parametric interface. But through the overload of interaction: system overload! PUNCTUM! The Andy Warhol-like, Gursky-like repetition drive.

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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.