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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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System Art: The age of Generated-Automated System

2025-02-08

We live inside systems that do not stop. Financial, educational, academic and technical systems continue to operate beyond the understanding or control of any one participant. Making their presence perceptible is an important task for a contemporary artist. Hans Haacke and Sarah Sze are among the references I return to.

Automation is also a relation to time. A system repeats, completes a cycle and begins another. As it develops, those cycles can accelerate. The clock is a basic image of this condition: standardised time makes duration measurable, and measurable duration becomes something to optimise.

I want to explore the aesthetic of an actual automated system, rather than a moving image representing one. A multi-device environment could feel like a gigantic casino: channels progressing, cycling and updating without waiting for us. The third movement of The Symphony of Civilisation begins to suggest this.

Language models add another layer. We can generate systems, and perhaps generate systems that generate further systems. Junk Site is one example. The object of attention is no longer only automated content, but the proliferation of automated structures.

Building such a work has a resemblance to a node-based environment. Nodes have parameters; connections determine how changes propagate. But the output need not be an abstract audiovisual composition. It could concern financial markets, education, transport, dating, applications or military organisation. A similar computational structure can carry a very different social context.

One possible interaction lets participants adjust system parameters. A simple slider or scroll becomes consequential through dimensional transformation: a modest gesture changes a relationship whose effects may be immediate or delayed. The earlier interest-rate proposal is an example of a small adjustment reshaping a larger environment.

The unresolved question is how to generate the system itself. Could I provide a set of input parameters and ask a model to construct relationships among them? Could many such subsystems form a larger structure? The nature of the work would then emerge from the generated relations, not just from generated images or sentences.

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