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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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Two-Rooms Problem: Interrogation Room

2024-07-28

Multi-device web artworks do not have to keep every device in the same room. Their connections can pass between physically separate rooms, buildings or countries. Nam June Paik’s Good Morning, Mr. Orwell is one reference for thinking across distance.

How could an installation make that distant, real-time relationship felt without simply explaining it? How could a narrative unfold between spaces?

The interrogation room offers a starting structure. A one-way mirror separates being watched from watching. One room is exposed; the other observes and exercises control. The architecture assigns power a direction.

I imagine a participant entering Room A without understanding the complete arrangement. The digitally augmented environment around them is being controlled from Room B. They may begin to suspect that its events are responding to a presence they cannot see.

Later they enter Room B and discover the mechanism—and perhaps occupy the controlling position themselves. What first appeared to be an autonomous environment becomes a relation between people and rooms.

Lacan’s account of the gaze, including the relationship between point of light, screen and subject, is a possible direction for further reading.

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