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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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Data Emotionalisation
2024-09-16
Data is a by-product of the society we inhabit. It is what emerges when the complexity and interdependence of that society are compressed into a measurable form. It is partly natural and partly constructed, partly orderly and partly unpredictable. A gradual trend can suddenly change under a black-swan event.
That makes data a profoundly contemporary material: a trace of the layered conditions of modern life.
Data visualisation often announces its interpretive task explicitly. It tells the audience what the values represent and how to read them. This can communicate information, but it can also make interpretation crowd out the experience of the resulting form. Once confronted with semantics, we try to decode before we allow ourselves to perceive.
I want sensation to precede explanation. Climate data, for example, could generate accelerating tension or an increasingly unstable rhythm. Without first reading a label, someone might sense that something is changing in the melody. Context can arrive after that encounter.
I call this data emotionalisation: experiencing the audiovisual consequences of data before being asked to interpret its stated subject. Temporalisation and rhythm are therefore as important as visualisation.
One possible application is Rise & Fall. A participant scans a QR code and sends live video to TouchDesigner through WebRTC. Their face’s position, scale and expression change according to a dataset. As its symbolic economic position improves, the face occupies more space; as it declines, the image contracts or shifts.
Actual company prices or revenue could drive this rise and fall. A graph would become a changing relation to one’s own image, rather than remain an external chart.
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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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