My book is finally published.

Sold in Book Society, Seoul and many other art book shops.

Greenlight Bookshop, Brooklyn

Desert Island, Brooklyn

PDF will be avaliable in the time of publishing event!

지난 일년간 작업한 책이 드디어 출간되었습니다.

서울의 북 소사이어티와 다양한 예술 서점에서 구매가 가능합니다.

뉴욕에서는 Green Light bookshop 과 만화 전문인 Desert Island에서 구매가 가능합니다.

책의 내용은 Creative commons license를 기반으로 공개될 예정입니다. 출간 기념회의 시점에 맞춰서 공개하려고 합니다.

Published by Mediabus
Design by Salon Bittna Choi

First Person Perspective is a workshop and collaboration between artist Taeyoon Choi and San Jose youth to create a movie shot entirely in ‘first person perspective’ using DIY headcams made from recycled materials. We will discuss the unique role of first person perspective in the history of filmmaking, ranging from cinéma vérité documentary film to online user generated video. Participants will take on the role of director, actor, cameraman and editor in order to develop their point of view about private and public spaces. Workshop participant’s work will be presented at the Eyebeam exhibition space at 01SJ, as well as the project website, www.taeyoonchoi.com/firstperson. The workshop is for aspiring young artists and filmmakers between the ages of 14-19. Maximum 10 participants. Equipment and technology will be provided.

First Person Perspective is presented as part of the Eyebeam Roadshow at 01SJ, and is produced by Eyebeam Art + Technology Center (New York) in collaboration with Adobe Youth Voices | 01SJ.

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Please go to Urban Program 도시 프로그래밍 책 http://camerautomata.org/tyshow

Other projects 다른 작업 http://camerautomata.org/index2.html

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To do list
1.Read Bourdie’s ‘Distinction: Social Critique of Judgment of Taste’ and Negt and Kluge’s ‘Public sphere and experience’ both book has been with me and traveled overseas 4 times, and I still haven’t really started with them. 
2.Make some drawings that can be downloaded and printed by others.
3.Make some drawings that others can finish. Multiples. 
4.Make some postcards. One side is a photo I took, and other side with stamp, address to my studio, and some words already written, so other need to fill in the blank only. 
5.Make a drawing into a paper sculpture, a downloadable plan to cut and paste to. Some geometric shapes I draw can be made into real life. 
6.The paper sculpture can be used as a book, a way of writing spatially. 
7.The Spatial writing book can be made into an exhibition, same thing bigger.
8.Make an exhibition in a museum, with no art work but everything else. There will be name tags, people’s shadows, noise, lighting, pedestals, and space between the works will be painted in different color. Possibly made by video projection. 
9.Make a nice sculpture with glass and mirror, preferably with material found on the street. 
10.Make the “Polar Opposite” project, with air conditioner and heater in the North Pole and the South Pole making a micro current. And, don’t forget to perform in a Penguin suit.
11.Write about meeting the scientists behind the Manhattan Project, and make that experience into an art project.
12.Make a video-movie, only with my hands showing various photographs and narration.
13.Put an art work, preferably a software and movie file, in a USB stick somewhere in the city, reveal its location to audience, and have them come find it. If no one seems to come get it, put a bootleg version on torrent. 
14.Ask a friend to put my information on wikipedia.
15.Make a movie with another person who lives in twelve hours of time difference. Every scene is recorded by screen capturing and Talking on skype. It will be a love story.
16.Write some of my stories into English <Madrid story, Grey Belt stories, etc...) 
17.Do a solo-performance of long time ‘gold ideas’. Shooting a video camera with a rifle, running to the roof top and pop a fire cracker, two people fighting with camera on pole, carrying a plastic bag full of dirt or water until it all falls out, etc 
18.Find the weirdest apartment on Craiglist, and go see it and take pictures.
19.Put every data I have on a backup harddrive. 
20.Reveal my password to email account, and have people write to my contacts. 
21.Make a drawing with a bulldozer crushing land, and it’s shovel says “DESIGN” 
22.Make a project that people take a train, listen to my story on ipod or watch screen, and meet other people in destined train station. The other people took different routes, and they know different version of the story. Broadway Junction in Brooklyn will work.
23.Make a total theatre piece about ‘Yong San’. Part of the Seoul story. There will be red velvet curtain covering up the stage, and only awesome sound and footsteps of performer will be heard. 
24.Make a “Super” billboard 
25.Sell Art work over the net. Doesn’t have to be material art. 
26.Make a mold out of miniature of 9/11 site, so the negative space can be materialized. 
27.Apply to graduate school at Visual Studies at MIT this year, or Ph.d at CUNY graduate center in few years. Study with Antonio Muntadas or David Harvey. If that doesn’t work out, apply for a teaching position. 
28.Invite good artists to show or work in Korea. 
29.Eat healthy, do yoga, be happy, love and care.
30.Hmmmm....

Video 비디오
Presentation Slides 발표 슬라이드
Presentation Text in Korean 발제문 (한글)

Taeyoon Choi will join the Lift Conference via a video recorded presentation from his studio in New York City. He will talk about recent projects and related issues in the networked environment, which is potentially a tool of control, deception, and profit for the power. Choi will share his insights in working around the limitation, and presents the to innovative hacking and creative misuse, through open source practice. Projects such as ‘Camerautomata Charlie’ and ‘Liars Picnic’ will be explained. Choi will also mention his inspirations from favorite micro communities and activist’s use of technology for social change

Untitled from Taeyoon Choi on Vimeo.

리프트 컨퍼런스 아시아에서 상영된 비디오 발표. <말단 사용자를 위한 가이드> 최태윤

자본주의 기술 기반의 현대 사회에 사는 나, 그리고 사람 대부분은 <말단 사용자>이다. <사용자>는 <소비자>와 같은 경우가 많다 ... 나의 네트워크 환경은 얼마나 건강한가? 현재 네트워크 환경은 대부분 상품이고, 우리는 그것의 충실한 소비자이다.... 말단 사용자의 네트워크 환경의 건강을 진단하고 더욱 올바른 판단을 하기 위한 안내가 필요한 시점이다.

End User's Guide by Taeyoon Choi is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License

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Hellow World! I'm doing well in my new studio in 16 Beaver street, NYC.

The news is, The Liars Picnic will be invited to the CONFLUX CITY festival in New York City in September 20th. 
And I will be giving a talk on Lift Asia 09 Symposium on Serious Fun in Jeju Island, S.Korea. However, I will only send video presentation. Here's the brief of my talk. If anyone wants to fly me over, Please contact me!

Good day then. Taeyoon Choi

<SUPER> is a poetry for billboard and urban screen.

The text says: <World's Best, World's Biggest, Super Fast, Super Super, Eco-Friendly, Re-Develop, New Media, Democracy, etc>

Also in Korean: <세계 최고, 세계 최대, 초고속, 초특급, 친환경, 재개발, 뉴미디어, 민주주의>

I am thinking of making a first test version in NYC, maybe around the time of Art in Odd places and Performa.  So, Look out around 14th street and near Beaver street, where my studio is at.

These are some preliminary design and images.

‘Liars Picnic’ is an experiment in social game and participatory performance art by Taeyoon Choi.Setting:The game is played by multiple pairs of two players sitting on a picnic blanket. The players are either “Speaker” or “Listener”. The game is not a competition. The main objective is to be able to talk to another person without the usual stress of honesty. Everything that players talk about in the game can be either true or lie, or both.

1st round:The “Speaker” tells a story to the “Listener” for about five minutes. It can be a personal story, fictional story, or a delicious mix of truth and lie.At the end of the five minutes, the “Listener” decides if the “Speaker” has been telling a truth or lie. At this point, the “Speaker” can not argue about the Listener’s decision. Also, the “Speaker” should not reveal if the story was true or not.

Transition:If the “Listener” says the “Speaker” told a truthful story, the “Speaker” plays “Speaker again, and can tell a story again in the next round to a new “Listener”. The “Speaker” moves to the picnic blanket toward the East. The “Speaker” can tell the same story, or a new story. The “Listener” has to listen to a new “Speaker”, by moving to the blanket toward the North.If the “Listener” says the “Speaker” told a Lie, the “Speaker” becomes a “Listener” in the next round, and has to listen to a new “Listener”. The “Speaker” moves to the picnic blanket toward the North. The “Listener” becomes a “Speaker” next round, and can tell a story to a new “Listener”.In each transition, the players at the end of the blanket grid move to the other side of the grid. Imagine a time warp tunnel, similar to how ‘Pac Man’ moves from one end of the game to the other side. In case of 18 players, there will be 9 picnic blanket. For example, the players on the northern blanket moves to the southern blanket. And, the players on the far eastern blanket, moves to the blanket on the left.

Next round:The “Speaker” and “Listener” proceed in the new round of game with the same rule as the first round. The game continues until everyone gets tired of lying.

How the project came about:Taeyoon says “The idea for “Liars Picnic” was conceived in the hot afternoon of June 10th in 2009, when I was sitting in the Seoul Plaza. A post funeral ceremony for the Ex president Roh was scheduled later that day. The city officials did not allow the event organized by the citizen activists and the left party, in fear of the event building up to become a massive candle light vigil and violent protest against the current government. During the lunch time, many people were happily having a picnic surrounded by a wall of riot police. In this peaceful squatting of public space, they were able to have the event in the end. While most of the plaza was calm, there were continuing clash between the police and citizen around the border. I was sitting among others in the Seoul Plaza, and was very confused about the situation. It seemed like the most of the major press were lying, and also the independent press were not trust worthy. The government was lying, and the people were also lying to one another. I thought of a happy picnic in which strangers get to lie to another, without the usual stress of honesty and deception. The idea developed into a game in which the boundary between truth and lie are non existent.”

Future:Taeyoon says “After the success of initial performance in September 20th, 2009 as part of the CONFLUX CITY festival in New York City, I am contemplating on the possibility of next step with this project. One direction is making a second game with a different rule that portrays the ‘Liars Paradox’. The “Liars Paradox game” will be have more complex rule that portray the classical philosophical and logical question about truth value of contradictory statement. Another direction of the project is to utilize mobile phones and web video conference into the game, and create an all web based game of liars. It has been proven that people lie better on the phone conversation, compared to the face to face conversation. The “Networked Liars game” will bring people over the long distance to lie to another.”