Taeyoon Choi
Assistant Professor
Taeyoon Choi
Biography
Taeyoon Choi is an artist, educator and activist, who often collaborates with fellow artists, designers, engineers and community members. His practice involves visual art, research, pedagogy, technology and participatory performance. His works were presented at the Whitney Museum of Amercian Art, New Museum, LACMA, Mediacity Seoul Biennale, and he had fellowships at Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, Data and Society among others.
Taeyoon cofounded the School for Poetic Computation in New York City where he worked as a teacher and organizer. He founded Forever✰ Gallery, a space for inclusive and experimental contemporary art. He spoke at Eyeo Festival, Decentralized Web Summit, and Google SPAN conference. He served on the advisory role of the Processing Foundation and currently serves on the Facilitation Group of AFIELD, an international network of cultural changemakers.
Degrees and Certifications
BFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago
MS Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Primary Research Interest
Selected Exhibitions
2023 Plural Prototypes, Gray Area, San Francisco, USA
2022 Skyline Forms Earthline, Doosan Art Center, South Korea
2021 Future School, Biennale Architettura, Venice, Italy
2021 Interweaving Poetic Code, Art Sonje Center, Seoul and Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile, Hong Kong, China
2020 The Care of the Self: Journals and Letters, Factory2, Seoul, South Korea
2019 Distributed Web of Care, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2018 School of Schools, 4th Istanbul Design Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
2016 CTRL+ALT: A Culture Lab on Imagined Futures, a collaboration with Christine Sun Kim, Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, New York, USA
2016 Whisper or Shout: Artists in the Social Sphere, BRIC, New York, USA
Recent Publications
2023 Where would you like to place your pet giraffe?, Ding Ding Ding, Berlin, Germany
2023 Decolonial Programming, THIS TOO IS A MAP, An Anthology, [NAME], Miami, USA
2022 Other Networks: Taeyoon Choi on Infrastructure and Equity on the Decentralized Web, Deem Journal, New York, Los Angeles
2022 garden.local, Branch, The Netherlands
2021 A Primer for Distributed Webs, CTM Festival, Berlin
2021 Unlearning Perceptions Around Disability, Pioneer Works Broadcast, New York
2021 A Guide for Co-creating Access and Inclusion, The Creative Independent, New York
2021 Community Code: A thing, something, everything, and nothing, Vernon Press
2021 Unlearning, Summer School of Unlearning, South Korea, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, The Goethe Institute