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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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Perceivable Experience vs. Non-perceivable Experience
2024-08-14
Perception has limits. There are upper and lower thresholds to what we can see, hear and process, and therefore many ways to construct an experience that exceeds them: greater density, greater speed, more simultaneous information.
The systems I want to address do not operate according to those perceptual limits. A hyperobject cannot be made fully available to a single human viewpoint. We encounter parts of a vast ecological or social formation and reach the limit of our ability to grasp it.
An artwork therefore need not always offer an immediately legible, plausible or desirable experience. That demand can produce kitsch. It can instead let participants encounter the incomprehensible conditions in which they already live.
This requires careful construction. Starting with undifferentiated chaos can close the encounter before it begins. I want a perceivable non-perceivability: enough coherence to invite someone in, followed by an experience that makes the limits of that coherence apparent. The paradox is part of the work.
A user interface ordinarily does the reverse. It processes raw information—too fast, too extensive or too intricate to apprehend directly—into a human-readable form. That packaging makes the world manageable, but it also changes what is presented. Visualising, communicating and, at times, falsifying can become difficult to separate.
The brutal interface interests me because it exposes something of that underlying construction rather than completing the package. It remains a direction to investigate.
For the proposed KAIST opening work, I was considering the intensity of continuously generated text, numbers and informational waste. The original note stops at that question of intensity; the specific experience was still unresolved.
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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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