Related to the concept of ‘system parameterisation’ Rather than directly depicting the system parameters (as data visualisation), what will be the implicit way to plot the change of data (i.e. system output parameters) subtly, poetically, metaphorically, and artistically?
Everyday interface - not just web ui/digital interface, but literally, everyday interface that we confront - is a result of a complex system/society that we live in. No visual interface - especially if it contaminates some sort of data - can be independent from the outer world, the ever intertwined and dynamically evolving system.
Supermarket Flyer with products and pricing, for example → Pricing: Affected by economic status/policy, Product: Affected by Climate Change, Ecological System, Geopolitical status (Tariffs, etc.), Target Customers (Demographics)
Train Departure Board at Gwangmyeong Station, for example → Technology: KTX (High-speed Train), its speed, Politics: Osong station, the existence of Gwangmeong station, 지방분권/수도권 쏠림: Number of trains heading to seoul, Weather: Delay or cancellation of trains
Other gpt-generated examples (Not so impressive): Gas Station Price Boards Vending Machine Inventory Displays Digital Therometers and Air Quality Displays Live Bus/Metro Arrival Timetables Bank/Currency Exchange Rate Boards Package Delivery Tracking Restaurant Menus “Out of Stock” Smart Home Dashboard “Usage Graph”
What’s interesting: These everyday interface represents our everyday ‘normal’ life, and its interface pretty much displays the same information in short-term (following ‘Normal Distribution’). This is the normal ‘system’ we live in, where we can expect that tomorrow will be the same as today. However, in long-term and/or in Black swan, information these everyday interfaces contaminates changes vastly: Supermarket Flyer changes its products, Train Departure Board shows lots of ‘cancellation’, due to the act of hyperobject lying beneath the surface data/information. We prefer to call this ‘abnormal’, ‘exception’, but in reality, as the volatility/unexpectedness of the system (social, technical, ecological) that we live in becomes more complex & intertwined, these ‘abnormal’ situations will likely occur more often. Having everyday interface as systematic output- as the A/V output of system art -- is useful to highlight this concerning (or delighting) trend by amplifying its uncertainness/instableness. That the everyday life we know, the everyday interface we interact with, will change in a long-term consequence of our interaction.
Every visual -- every regression-to-mean visuals -- generatable and adjustable, parameterically transformed/interpretable -- representation of systematic output -- One example 태양할인마트
Data Visualisation (Dashboards, graphs) vs. Data Parameterisation → There already exists a system, operating upon parameters, and when parameters change, system functions accordingly
Simple example: 태양할인마트 Interest Change—> 물가변동 —> 전단지 가격, 할인율 변동 Climate change —> 품목변동 —> 전단지상 물품, 농수산물 변동 Global geopolitics —> 수출입변동 —> 품목변동
이렇게 사소한 동네마트 전단지조차 하나의 시스템으로 Data params의 변경을 systematically plot 할수있다.
Everything can be ‘everdya interface’ Data Visualisation Commercial Visuals (Web UIs) Generative Outcomes Texts/Typography Small Multiples Avatars/Profiles/Simulacre Agents Network/Map
Or ultimately: All Visual cultures - most representatively Advertisement Visuals! Now these ‘object’s are massively generated by AI…. Now the problem is how to associate this with dynamics system output → Making it dynamic, as a part of the system!
Further speculation: Five steps
1. Input → 2. Input Dimensional Transformation → 3. System → 4. Output Dimensional Transformation → 5. Output
This input/output is both ‘everyday interface’, but the internal system acts as a hyperobject.
EVERYDAY INTERFACE - AUTOMATED INTERFACE
System: Made of the aggregation of ‘unit’ -- each unit everyday interface Self-Initiating Automatic System- Using & Repeating Everyday Interface For example: Calendar, aggregating calendar multiple times (Calendar - symbol of modern time, social time, Gaussian-Descartian notion of absolute time, ‘명석 판명함’, and the symbol of modern slavery -- how many people is bounded by time, and imprisoned by time? 시급, 시간이 없다…) Aggregating calendar multiple times -- symbol/possibility of liberty from this enslavement? of modern system? How is this possible? 일종의 유희? 워홀적인 유희? 반복법? 최소한계차이? 일종의 시스템들의 반복
평면도 -- 아파트 평면도/조감도 -- 반포자이즘? 그리고 그것의 가격들? (Smth to invetigate further)
Sub-automated UI -- Aesthetically Symphony of Civilisation Movement 3 -- Rapidly changing? The idea for ‘Market Economy’ where UI interface is detached from the context: Design is detached from the product! Selling apple in luxurious interface!
Function/Graph? Dashboard Aesthetic? Calm dashboard vs. fucked up dashboard? Most representatitve example -- Space Odyssey Hal 9000 “Life Functions Terminated” -- Best example. How to multiply this graph? How to create ‘states’? Maybe the easiest way to do this is already there?
Everyday Interface -- Modern Interface? 한남대교 육교의 사례… 수없이 지나가는 많은 차들의 Flux → Flux: 유체역학? Flux of interfaces, flux of ‘states’ of interfaces
일종의 날파리들 움직이는것처럼? Stochastic? Random-like? 그러나 한남대교를 지나가는 수많은 차들은 개별 행동주체로 합목적성을 가지고 있다… 그 합목적성이 완전 다른 Bird’s eye view 로 봤을때 사소해보이고 초라해보이는, 개미떼처럼 보이는것과는 대조적으로,,
Text written by Jeanyoon Choi
Ⓒ Jeanyoon Choi, 2025