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Jeanyoon Choi (b.1999) is a Computational Artist researching in interconnectivity and complexity through Multi-Device Web Artworks.
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Broadly defining the term 'Data Visualisation'
2025-02-09
Data visualisation usually brings graphs and dashboards to mind. I want to use the term more broadly within computational art.
In software art, data is gathered, transformed through relationships and presented. A field of text is processed data made visible. A three-dimensional form that changes through interaction is also a visualisation of data. So are images, colours and lighting whose states are calculated from inputs.
There is a point at which that definition becomes unhelpfully broad. A prerecorded film also consists of data, but playing a fixed sequence of pixels is different from data actively determining a work’s changing output. For this discussion, I am concentrating on web and software artworks whose parameters remain operative.
The more modular and computational the work becomes, the less it depends on a fixed collection of prepared assets. Its identity increasingly lies in the inputs, connections and algorithms through which outputs emerge. In that sense, what it presents is a visualisation of processed relationships.
Generative AI expands the range of those transformations. A small amount of text can produce a much larger image; the text itself could come directly from a participant or be derived from a nonlinguistic action. A language model can also generate an algorithm, subject to whatever validation is needed before it is used.
That changes the proposition. Previously, I might generate an asset while keeping the connections fixed. Now the connections themselves could be generated. The work could become a modular, automatically operating platform in which both material and relationships vary.
What would make this concrete? What example would communicate the difference clearly? Those remain the practical questions behind this expanded definition.
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Interactive Multi-Device Web Artworks where audiences interact with surrounding screens and projections from their own mobile phones.
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Jeanyoon Choi
Jeanyoon Choi (b. 1999) is a Korean computational artist and researcher. He designs and researches multi-device web artworks that reflect the complexity of contemporary socio-technological systems, including AI, algorithmic culture, and economic structures. By interconnecting mobile devices and screens, these artworks create provocatively interactive environments. To develop their conceptual foundations, he draws on art, philosophy, and his scientific background, then uses software engineering and design to translate these ideas into interactive experiences.
He holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from Seoul National University and an MA in Information Experience Design from the Royal College of Art, and is currently a PhD candidate at KAIST's Experience Design Lab (XD Lab). He has also taught Computational Design Practices in the Interaction Design Department at K-Arts (Korea National University of Arts). His work has been exhibited internationally at Ars Electronica, Istanbul Digital Arts Festival, IKLECTIK London, Centre Culturel Coréen, and KAIST Art Museum. His papers have been published in the proceedings of ACM DIS and in the Leonardo journal (MIT Press), and he has served as an academic reviewer for ACM TEI, NeurIPS Creative AI, and Digital Creativity.
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