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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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Platform Art: A Modular Approach
2024-03-20
A modular approach to platform art. First, a distinction: platform art is not an art platform. An art platform might be a place to sell art. By platform art, I mean an artistic practice whose very form is a platform.
Consider a work that is not fixed as an installation or a prerecorded moving image, and does not depend on a specialist software setup inaccessible to the public. If it exists on the web, anyone can enter and interact with it. The artwork itself becomes a platform.
Participants contribute to it together. Each interaction makes and remakes the work, so no two encounters need be identical. Its definitive form is no longer a particular arrangement of screens in a gallery. That arrangement is one physical manifestation of a platform that can take others.
How the work is installed still matters, but the platform and the intangible connections between its devices come first. An installation gives those relations a temporary physical form.
This also suggests a modular approach to exhibiting. A platform may contain multiple forms of input, generative output and interconnection. An artist or curator does not have to present every feature at once. They can select a set of modules appropriate to a particular space while preserving the relations that make the work coherent.
The result is a leaner installation with more possible forms of existence. For me, that possibility points towards a future for web-based artistic practice.
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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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