# 좌표 속에서 노는 것이 아니다 Canonical URL: https://jeanyoon.ch/oi/texts/banpo-xism-artist-notes-2026-01-05 Type: essay / research note Author: Jeanyoon Choi (최정윤) Date: 2026-01-05 ## Full text Banpo-Xism must first be dismantled; then a path rising gradually into higher dimensions can be offered. - Passively following the axes (trapped inside the "Banpo" series and the "Xi" series, navigating by minimal marginal difference) (Banpo-Xism). - Questioning the absolute series of the axes: why must it be "Banpo-Xism"? Can it not be "Hanpo-Taism"? (Banpo-Xism-ism) - Questioning the orthogonality of the axes: why orthogonal? Can they not overlap? - (Or) questioning the Cartesian-ness of the axes: why Cartesian? Can it not be a cylindrical coordinate system, a spherical coordinate system? - Linear hierarchy (Cartesian coordinates) -> cyclical production (circular coordinates). - Rising to ever higher axes... TBD. It is not playing inside the coordinates. It is deforming and extending the coordinate axes. Banpo-Xism: playing inside coordinate axes already given, already made by others; squabbling inside them; passive. Banpo-Xism-ism: beginning to question the coordinate axes called Banpo-Xism. Why must "Banpo" and "Xi" be the best? Can other things not be substituted into that top term? Up/down scroll: changes the top location. Left/right: brand. Like YDP Dynamics (a 3D collage visual test). Substitution, swapping places, a sorting algorithm. Banpo-Xism-ism-ism: beginning to question the series called Banpo-Xism-ism, the Cartesian coordinate axes. Why must a series be linear, with a front and a back? Can it not be cyclical? Two topological deformations here: plane -> cylinder, cylinder -> doughnut. - Up/down: turns the location axis from a line into a circle (plane -> cylinder). - Left/right: turns the brand axis from a line into a circle (cylinder -> doughnut). Banpo-Xism-ism-ism-ism: beginning to question the field called Banpo-Xism-ism-ism, the fixed coordinate axes. Why must the series be fixed? Can it not be continuously fluid? Here, the introduction of time: Or: torus -> hyper-torus? Ultimately: a K3 surface? A Calabi-Yau manifold? Heading in the end towards a hypersurface! (The continuity of the surface itself is kept, but it gradually twists.) Expansion of space-time: expansion of Banpo-Xism (the plane). How it differs from parametric architecture: parametric architecture is usually bound by gravity and focuses on solids. This is a plane, smooth manifold curvature; structures twisted in the middle, physically impossible structures, structures free from gravity, are all possible. I.e. fibration. Question: in this process, N users (multi-users): if each has different requirements (under the assumption that they are controlling the same dimension) -> does a manifold form naturally? A natural bend? (Locally, each person's need, desire or interaction command is satisfied at their own point; globally, a natural bending between the two desires.) I.e. fibration. Now, why a torus? Ricci-flat. Plane -> topological variation: plane -> cylinder -> torus -> 3-torus -> K3 surface -> ... [A chatbot-style table pasted here, summarised: the circle (1D, the basic loop); the torus (2D, a Calabi-Yau 1-fold, "flat"); the 3-torus (3D, a product of three circles, flat but not technically a complex Calabi-Yau); the K3 surface (4D, a Calabi-Yau 2-fold, with 24 "holes"); the Calabi-Yau 3-fold (6D, used in string theory to explain extra dimensions).] My own table, by situation / controller (Reels name) / degrees of freedom of control / dimension of the Banpo Xi plane / operation / meaning: - Banpo-Xism / Banpo Xi / 0D (point) / 2D / passive navigation within the given 2D Banpo-Xism plane (point-to-point navigation) / bound to "Banpo-Xism", passive operation, dependent on the external hierarchical order called "Banpo Xi". - Banpo-Xism-ism / Banpo-Xism / 1D (linearity) / 2D / manipulating the hierarchy of the plane: "Banpo" is best -> "Hanpo" is best, manipulating a "one-dimensional" edge / questioning the "top value" of the series, adjusting "Banpo-Xism". - Banpo-Xism-ism-ism / Banpo-Xism-ism / 2D / 2D / a two-dimensional operation (?) / questioning the absoluteness and orthogonality of the series, mixing and blending the two edges (?). - Banpo-Xism-ism-ism-ism / Banpo-Xism-ism-ism / 3D / 3D (the degrees of freedom of control exceed the dimension of the plane, so the dimension of the Banpo Xi plane itself begins to be manipulated): torus. TORUS: PLANE (Ricci-flat). Plane -> cylinder, cylinder -> torus / questioning the linearity of the series, turning the linear series into a circle: linear thinking -> cyclical, recursive thinking. - Banpo-Xism-ism-ism-ism-ism / Banpo-Xism-ism-ism-ism / 4D / 4D: K3 surface. - Banpo-Xism-ism-ism-ism-ism-ism / Banpo-Xism-ism-ism-ism-ism / 5D / 5D. - Banpo-Xism-ism-ism-ism-ism-ism-ism / Banpo-Xism-ism-ism-ism-ism-ism / 6D / 6D: Calabi-Yau manifold (?). The criterion of evaluation (i.e. the criterion for setting prices) -> stays in 2D (evaluated only by the 2D Cartesian orthogonal coordinate system). So once we go to 3D and beyond, it shows symbolically that, as a shadow, it stays in 2D. ANDY WARHOL. BRUCE NAUMAN. JASPER JOHNS (THREE FLAGS). What is Banpo-Xism? It is the highest good of our age, the highest value, the absolute standard, the categorical imperative, the rule that applies to everyone (without exception). Banpo Xi is the finest beauty possible for us, the goal of life, the myth that must be praised. Banpo-Xism, Banpo-Xism-ism, Banpo-Xism-ism-ism-ism-ism-ism. - Hyper-reification - Excessive recursion - Semantic satiation - Tautology (Joseph Kosuth) - Bruce Nauman DADADADDADADDDADDDADADDADADADDDADAADADADA Smoothed particle hydrodynamics. The KCC ad, an infinite loop (a blog post and a video as references). Bruce Nauman, useful for the AI TTS: No nonononono Thank you thank you thank you work work work work work Think think think nono non ono no No no no no new museum Jean Baudrillard, The Consumer Society (p. 25): "For those who have received the miracle of consumption, too, set up a dummy of happiness and the apparatus of its characteristic signs, and then wait for real happiness to land there." [A chatbot response pasted here, summarised: in the proposal, Banpo-Xism criticises the will to power in a distorted, reduced form. The desire to go "higher", to "a better apartment", is at root the will to power, the wish to expand one's life; but confined to a single value system (floor area, school district, house price: the Symbolic), life's creative and diverse possibilities are castrated and it degenerates into an infinite competition in one direction only, vertical ascent, a wasteful, uniform rather than affirmative, creative expression of the will to power.] --- 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.