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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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Research for Omega - The Hallucination of Vectorisation
2024-06-23
These notes began after reading about criticisms of MBTI. I am interested in the Barnum effect and confirmation bias, but particularly in a paradox: people may feel uniquely recognised precisely when they are being placed inside a general category.
A test assigns one of sixteen types. The result feels personally revealing, and a person begins to describe—and perhaps reshape—themselves through it. What is presented as individual discovery can become a process of flattening.
I call the larger tendency collective individualism. People appear increasingly individualistic and competitive while becoming more alike in the dimensions that organise their aspirations. Entrance examinations, the pursuit of medical school and Banpo-Xism offer examples: everyone competes for a higher position along the same prescribed axis. The differences become marginal because the goal is shared. Personality classifications can reproduce that structure.
What happens when this logic meets highly personalised conversational AI, as imagined in Her?
My speculative concern is that an apparently unique conversation could still be organised through existing vectors and categories. The user feels intimately recognised, while the system turns them into an increasingly describable and substitutable configuration. The promise of customisation might conceal another form of homogenisation.
This is the vectorisation of the human: not simply describing people with data, but encouraging them to exist in the terms of that description. If we accept that reduction as the whole of our identity, what remains of the humanity we imagine distinguishes us from AI?
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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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