# 부동산에서 동산으로: Infinite Semiosis Canonical URL: https://jeanyoon.ch/oi/texts/banpo-xism-artist-notes-2026-01-19 Type: essay / research note Author: Jeanyoon Choi (최정윤) Date: 2026-01-19 ## Full text Lab meeting, keywords. From budongsan (real estate, literally immovable property) to dongsan (movable property): from "budongsan", an immovable, absolute, external value, to "dongsan", something you move yourself, play actively and perform. 0D, 1D, 2D, 3D, 4D. Point, line, plane, space, hypersolid. Banpo Xi, Banpo-Xism, Banpo-Xism-ism, Banpo-Xism-ism-ism. Not navigating passively inside a system others have made, not lowering yourself to castrated desire, to two-dimensional desire. Design the coordinate axes yourself, the system yourself, the vector field yourself. Acknowledge the diversity of desire and follow it (the will to power). Distortion of space-time. Distortion of the vector field. Relativity, then dimensions and differential geometry. Euclidean and Newtonian physics, then a field that is adjusted and warped. What gives form in three dimensions is chaos in two, and generation in a higher dimension can be perceived as destruction in a lower one. Do not follow the rules of the game. Look at the game from a higher dimension, and change its rules. Critique of game theory Why emphasise the fixed rules of a game, the unquestionable assumption? There is no fixed, immutable truth, only old valuations that must be torn down. The fixed rules of a game are the other, the existing truth Nietzsche spoke of. Worn out. Go to a higher dimension than this, and the rules of the game, the rules of Banpo-Xism, can be changed all too easily. What is hard is only the idea of integration, the courage to explore, the acceptance of inefficiency. Navigating Banpo Xi inside Banpo-Xism: the navigation of a point. Passive, system-dependent. Navigating Banpo-Xism inside Banpo-Xism-ism: the navigation of a line. It changes "what is the highest value". Banpo-Xism, the field where Banpo and Xi are highest, becomes Hanpo-Taism, the field where Hanpo and Tai are highest. But the linear series is still preserved. Navigating Banpo-Xism-ism inside Banpo-Xism-ism-ism: the navigation of a plane. The order of the series itself? The orthogonality between the series? Multiple users: each with their own desire, their own direction, their own variation. As points, they seem to compete, each from their own position. What governs these variations all at once: a manifold. A differential geometry manifold. Making the differentiable manifold of desire together, instrumentally (dongsan). The phone: Reels: addiction. Inside a frame, bounded by an external frame. A passive role. The higher the dimension, the more it becomes an instrument. A percussion instrument: struck, played, varied. The will to power. Desire manifested as a manifold. A direct (differential) influence on the vector field itself. Interface: one that goes beyond scrolling and can accommodate the playing of the fingers themselves. Finger skating (smooth morphing, not discrete clicks between icons). The biggest worry: smooth transitions? The structure is there, but how is it translated into an intuitive language? Banpo Xi : desire, Banpo-Xism : desire, Banpo-Xism-ism : desire, Banpo-Xism-ism-ism : desire. In this gradual series, something concrete (an advertisement) to stand in the place of "desire" is missing. Banpo-Xism: moving like a point in pursuit of the apartment called "Banpo Xi". Banpo-Xism-ism: which series is the best? Moving the top value of the board itself (that is, moving Banpo-Xism). Banpo-Xism-ism-ism: ???? moving Banpo-Xism-ism. Banpo-Xism-ism-ism-ism: ???? moving Banpo-Xism-ism-ism. Another example (a hypothesis): state funding programme : artwork : state funding programme : artwork : state funding programme : artwork I make the process of applying for and running a state funding programme itself into an artwork. To make this artwork, a state funding programme is needed. I make the process of applying for and running this state funding programme itself into an artwork. To make this artwork, a state funding programme is needed. The [blank] will to power of Banpo Xi. For this, Banpo-Xism is needed. The [blank] of Banpo-Xism. For this, Banpo-Xism-ism is needed. Infinite semiosis. [Peirce's semiotics] Definition of the sign: a sign (representamen) is something that stands for something else in some respect. Sign (representamen): a sound, letter, picture, gesture or idea (Banpo Xi, Banpo-Xism, Banpo-Xism-ism). Object: what the sign stands for (desire). Interpretant: the content as interpreted, the meaning of the sign (this sign indicates that object). Banpo Xi (the sign) indicates castrated two-dimensional desire (the object): Banpo-Xism (the interpretant). The sign process: semiosis. The interpretant that arises when one grasps that a sign indicates its object becomes in turn a second sign, generating a second interpretant of the object; the second interpretant becomes a third sign, generating a third interpretant of the object... and so on. A table, read row by row (situation; controller or Reels name; degrees of freedom of control; dimension of the Banpo Xi plane; operation; meaning): - Banpo-Xism; controller "Banpo Xi"; 0D (point); plane 2D. Operation: passive navigation within the given 2D Banpo-Xism plane (point-to-point navigation). Meaning: belonging to "Banpo-Xism"; passive operation, dependent on the external hierarchical order called "Banpo Xi". - Banpo-Xism-ism; controller "Banpo-Xism"; 1D (linearity); plane 2D. Operation: manipulating the plane's hierarchy, from "Banpo" being highest to "Hanpo" being highest; manipulating a "one-dimensional" edge. Meaning: the question of the series' "top value"; controlling "Banpo-Xism". - Banpo-Xism-ism-ism; controller "Banpo-Xism-ism"; 2D; plane 2D. Operation: a two-dimensional operation (?). Meaning: questioning the absoluteness and orthogonality of the series; mixing or coexistence between the two edges (?). - Banpo-Xism-ism-ism-ism; controller "Banpo-Xism-ism-ism"; 3D; plane 3D (the degrees of freedom of control exceed the plane's dimension, so the dimension of the Banpo Xi plane itself begins to be manipulated): a torus. Operation: TORUS: PLANE (Ricci flat); plane to cylinder, cylinder to torus. Meaning: questioning the linearity of the series, turning the linear series into a circle; from linear thinking to circular, recursive thinking. - Banpo-Xism-ism-ism-ism-ism; controller "Banpo-Xism-ism-ism-ism"; 4D; plane 4D: a K3 surface. - Banpo-Xism-ism-ism-ism-ism-ism; controller "Banpo-Xism-ism-ism-ism-ism"; 5D; plane 5D. - Banpo-Xism-ism-ism-ism-ism-ism-ism; controller "Banpo-Xism-ism-ism-ism-ism-ism"; 6D; plane 6D: a Calabi-Yau manifold (?). [A chatbot-style passage pasted here, summarised: in the proposal, Banpo-Xism criticises a distorted, reduced form of the will to power. The desire to go "higher", to "a better apartment", is at root the will to power, the wish to expand one's life; but once it is trapped in a single value system (the Symbolic) of location and brand, the creative and diverse possibilities of life are castrated, and it degenerates into endless competition in one direction only, vertical ascent, so that the will to power shows itself only in wasteful, uniform ways rather than positive, creative ones.] --- 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.