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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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i' - Multi-User Interaction Scenario, quantum state management

2025-03-18

Suppose M participants send commands to an installation with N screens. Their intentions may conflict: several people can request different states at the same moment. Instead of resolving this into a single winner or a queue, each screen could move probabilistically among the states that participants are trying to produce.

I imagine this through the metaphor of interference or superposition. The inputs would overlap, and their effects would remain distributed across the installation. This is a way of thinking about the interaction, rather than a claim that the software behaves as a quantum system. A Markov model might offer one way to organise the transitions, although the probabilities and their relationship to audience input still need investigation.

Each output would be state-based rather than tied to a single progressive narrative. One screen might change while another persists; several might briefly align and then diverge. What matters is the relation between local events and the whole.

The resulting experience could resemble a busy city or railway platform: many activities happening at once, each with its own immediate logic, without one storyline that every participant must follow. The artwork would remain modular, while the audience's simultaneous actions would continually reorganise the larger situation.

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