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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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2025-03-18
The relationship between an idea and its production is changing. In industries organised around OEM or ODM manufacturing, a brand does not necessarily need its own factory. A similar separation exists between fabless semiconductor design and foundry production. The cosmetics industry offers a particularly vivid example: specialist manufacturers make it possible for many different brands to develop products without building the entire production infrastructure themselves.
What interests me is not simply cheaper production, but the possibility of systems that produce other systems. If the means of implementation become more accessible, the question can shift from how to survive inside an existing structure to what structure we want to bring into existence.
System art could make this shift tangible. It could expose an apparently inevitable order as a constructed arrangement—a simulacrum whose authority depends on our continuing to accept its terms. Instead of remaining components within it, participants could generate, rearrange, and play with systems of their own.
I return to Nietzsche's movement from the burden-bearing camel to the child who creates through play. There is something almost vengeful in this reversal: after spending so much time adapting ourselves to systems, we make systems respond to our ideas. Rapid changes of context become a creative capacity rather than a failure to specialise.
My own movement from industrial engineering toward design belongs to this question. Engineering taught me to understand and optimise an existing structure. Design opened the possibility of asking why that structure existed, and what another one might be.
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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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