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Ω
Multi-Device Web Artwork, 2025, Individual Artwork
Ω (Omega) is an interactive multi-device artwork urging phenomenological resistance to algorithmic reduction of identity. Interacting from the mobile, audiences initially are entrapped within an AI-generated MBTI vector space. However, after physically shaking their phone, they tilt, distort, and deconstruct this algorithmic simulacra, thus playfully and phenomenologically resisting the vectorisation.
Jeanyoon Choi is an artist-engineer researching multi-device web artworks through the lens of complexity science. He references a wide spectrum of research from Nietzsche and Dadaism to deep learning and vector fields, experimentally designing and programming Human-AI Interactions.
The multi-device web artwork <Ω> criticises the vectorisation of human kind, urging a physical, bodily resistance. In the age of generative AI, it is not only machines becoming humanised; rather, humanity is increasingly mechanised. Humanity is reduced to a sum of meaningless numbers, that is, a ‘vector’, precipitating an existential crisis where one becomes indistinguishable from a machine.
<Ω> commences as the audience scans the QR and starts the GPT-based MBTI test from their mobile. Generative videos corresponding to personality types construct a vector space. Yet, as the audience accidentally shakes their phone, the vector space distorts and collapses. This gesture represents a bodily struggle against vectorial representation, an expression of phenomenological resistance.
<Ω> is a sign of resistance in electromagnetic physics. This work contemplates a new dimension of human-algorithm relationship, examining the value not of surfaces, but of forces; not of types, but of relations; not of solutions, but of differentials; not of reductionism, but of complexity; and not of vector spaces, but of vector fields. The work proffers the reclamation of agency through somatic action, opening a forum for critical and resistive discourse on Human-Computer Interaction.
Credits
Artist: Jeanyoon Choi
Software Engineer: Jeanyoon Choi
Interaction Designer: Jeanyoon Choi
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