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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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My Interpretation of Hyperobject: Accelerating Interactionn

2024-07-16

My interpretation of a hyperobject begins with something in our hands. We initiate it, operate it and believe it remains within our control. Then, often only after the decisive moment has passed, we discover that it has exceeded us. Financial markets, climate change and neural networks suggest different versions of this condition.

Accelerating interaction is one way I try to give that transition a form. A small, understandable action gradually produces chaos. I have pursued variations of it in W, Nonequality, Bigger Dreams and Factory 4.0. My inclination is to affirm and play with that chaos rather than deny it by insisting that human reason—or a mathematical description—must render it completely manageable.

A simple sketch: one phone and one screen. The phone says ‘To Press’. Pressing reveals and plays a video; releasing makes it disappear. The response should arrive with a sudden, unexpected force. After roughly eight seconds, the instruction changes: To Click, To Write, To Send.

As the sequence develops, active verbs give way to increasingly passive forms of digital interaction: To See, To Blink, To Scroll, To Swipe, To Face ID, To Siri, To EEG. Meanwhile, each cycle contracts from eight seconds towards one. Eventually the system triggers its own inputs and videos before the participant can register what is happening. Images overlap and the sequence runs itself.

The sketch concerns the movement of digital interaction towards passivity and the subconscious, including the promises attached to brain interfaces. What once appeared to be a field of deliberate choices becomes an environment in which algorithms guide what we see and how we respond. The participant initiates the system, then finds themselves inside its momentum.

References for the vocabulary of action: Richard Serra’s Verb List and Martha Rosler’s Semiotics of the Kitchen.

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