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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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Puppet Show and Will-to-Power
2024-07-28
In a James Turrell space at the Chichu Art Museum in Naoshima, I noticed visitors turning projected light into an impromptu shadow-puppet show. A small hand movement acquired a much larger presence in the room.
I read that pleasure through will to power: the attraction of seeing one’s gesture amplified, echoed and extended into the surrounding space. The shadow makes an otherwise modest action consequential.
Conceptually, a multi-device web artwork can establish a similar conversation. Devices extend the participant’s body, and the participant acts on a digitally augmented environment.
The question is how to give that connection a bodily form within actual technical and spatial constraints. Clicking a button may be too weak or too familiar for some situations. Another gesture might make the relationship between body and room more immediate.
What matters is how the action travels: how it is amplified, how it becomes perceptible elsewhere, and how the space seems to answer it.
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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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