https://jjjcho.com Jaye TC Cho 卓均 Thu, 27 Jun 2024 18:49:27 +0000 https://jjjcho.com en https://jjjcho.com/about Mon, 13 Feb 2023 19:04:37 +0000 Jaye TC Cho 卓均 https://jjjcho.com/about jjjcho <img width="960" height="1280" width_o="960" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9322105dbcb230d5e91abe6d0ee9a6f30657184a4839796ae39c6794afb0ade2/photo_2021-03-07-23.53.26.jpeg" data-mid="202168075" border="0" data-scale="62" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/9322105dbcb230d5e91abe6d0ee9a6f30657184a4839796ae39c6794afb0ade2/photo_2021-03-07-23.53.26.jpeg" /> photo of fresh, warm horse shit collected by me. AboutJaye (ze/zir/any) is an interdisciplinary artist from Taoyuan, Taiwan, who fully embraces the contradictions of being both anti-professional and seriously committed to zir art. Ze navigates across various media—paintings, video, sculpture, and performance—delving into themes of ephemerality,&nbsp;loss, and societal questioning. Lately, ze has expanded into digital media, examining the blurred boundaries between private and public spaces and exploring the fears and possibilities inherent in human connection. Currently based between New York and Taoyuan, Jaye has exhibited zir work in the U.S., Russia, Germany, Spain and Taiwan. Ze also happens to be very socially awkard, which, combined with a broad but shallow skill set, makes zir interactions delightfully uncomfortable. “The extent to which Jaye respects — or, indeed, even understands — the funny/serious dichotomy is unclear.” —— Nic Johnson, Art Critic from the University of Chicago Education MFA New Media Arts | currently enrolled ($1,008)Taipei National University of the Arts 國立臺北藝術大學 MA Interactive Media Arts |&nbsp;62% Off ($30,880*) NYU Tisch School of the Arts&nbsp; MFA Painting &amp; Drawing |&nbsp;42% Off ($68,615*) School of the Art Institute of Chicago&nbsp; シカゴ美術館附属美術大学 BA International Development &amp; Political Science University of California, Berkeley 柏克萊加州大學 *Price in USD =&nbsp; total tuition &amp; fees - schoarships &amp; work study.︎&nbsp;The reveal of $ aims to brag &amp; embarrass myself at the same time. It shows you that I’m not a 100% worthless cash cow as I did receive a little bit of scholarships, but also not impressive enough to receive any full-rides. CV why brag about achievements when you can brag about failures? Enjoy my rejections&nbsp; here &nbsp;instead. &nbsp;中文版在這&nbsp; (If truly interested in my fabulous CV, please request via email at jcho.zir [at] gmail [dot] com.) (A Little Selected) Exhibitions 2025 .Rock Collections, digital collection included in project by Blair Johnson and Luke William, Re–Fest, CultureHub, New York, NY 2024 .拿我的藝術品我就給你錢 Vol.2 (Give You $$ If You Take My Art Vol. 2), 台北藝術自由日 (Taipei Free Art Fair), 瓶蓋工廠台北製造所 (POPOP Taipei), Taiwan .Loose Threads, curated by Mari Eastman,&nbsp;Bombon Projects, Barcelona, Spain .Every Woman Biennial, La MaMa Galleria, New York, NY 2023 .The Big Small Show, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ .Toxic Positivity, NYU IMA Winter Show, Studio Weise7, Berlin, Germany .[withdrew] IMA Thesis Show, NYU Shanghai, Shanghai, China 2022 .The Patriot, slobbed together (curated) by Jamian Juliano-Villani, O’Flaherty’s, New York, NY .Got An Art Problem?, work included in project by Nayland Blake for 2022 Whitney Biennial, Museum’s Office 3F Red Room, New York, NY 2021 .Goodbye Horses, curated by Josh Dihle &amp; Sahnnon Stratton, Research House for Asian Art, Chicago, IL .MFA Thesis Exhibition,&nbsp;SAIC Gallery, Chicago, IL 2020.Schule der Folgenlosigkeit. Übungen für ein anderes Leben (School of No Consequences. Exercises for a New Life), project by Prof. Friedrich von Borries, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (Mk&amp;G), Hamburg, Germany .Legit Exhibition, DBYP Project Space, Chicago + Blue-Cheap Gallery at&nbsp;Mozilla Hubs 2019 .Give You $$ If You Take My Art, MFA Open Studios, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL .A Year Since Then, International Bad Video Art Festival, Zverev Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia 2018 .Entropy, Bad Video Art Festival&nbsp;,&nbsp;A3 Gallery, Moscow, Russia .The Annual, curated by Giannella Ysasi Tavano &amp; Neil O’Malley | MacLean Center,&nbsp;Chicago, IL Sugar Dds &amp; Mms 2026&nbsp; 北藝大 2024&nbsp; 藝術自由日’s Jury Prize, YIRI ARTS 伊日藝術 2022&nbsp; NYU Tisch 研究生獎學金2021&nbsp; SVA Silas H. Rhodes 獎學金 2020&nbsp; SAIC Clay Morrison 獎學金 2019&nbsp; SAIC Leon W Guggenheim 獎學金 2018&nbsp; ROC 臺灣教育部 + 外交部 Peace Corps Grant 2018&nbsp; CalArts Lillian Disney 獎學金 2017&nbsp; 遺產 from Real Mommy https://jjjcho.com/murmur Mon, 13 Feb 2023 19:04:37 +0000 Jaye TC Cho 卓均 https://jjjcho.com/murmur Murmuring //*auto-correct is off, written in broken engrish.*// <img width="1166" height="398" width_o="1166" height_o="398" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/484847774c2092fd2210add650df2a49c996d8564d83b657b37978ccea52de4a/Screen-Shot-2023-03-17-at-10.53.27-PM.png" data-mid="172140166" border="0" data-scale="90" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/484847774c2092fd2210add650df2a49c996d8564d83b657b37978ccea52de4a/Screen-Shot-2023-03-17-at-10.53.27-PM.png" /> -from Friedrich Nietzsche’s On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for LifeWednesday September 23 2026 For the past 10 months, I’ve been humbled by how much mental stress can directly influence the health of the physical body. Anyway, I’ve been forced to move (back) to Taiwan due to the current political reality. All my belongings are still in New York. Luckily, I found shelter in a national arts university in Taipei and is now a graduate student again.&nbsp; Saturday March 29 2025 I really need to stop losing my phone. Friday August 2 2024Received a lot of rejections this week. I’ve always pride myself with terrible documentation and anti-professionalism and focus more on art at the moment. However, I guess I do have to rethink about what I want with this whole professional artist thing and things I need to start doing if I really want to get any of the opportunities. Anyway, I also thought this is a good chance and time for me to create a CV of all my rejections. The CV started in 2020. When I started my MFA in 2019, I thoguht I’d give myself 5 years to make this artist thing work. But COVID kinda took away 3 years from me, but that’s probably just an excuse for myself, I know plenty artists that strived during COVID instead. But I didn’t know shit, I didn’t know how to play the game, I was just waiting for all the cancelled opportunities to open up again instead of “networking”. I wish all artists can be more honest about their failures, especially back then when I was asking around about artist as an career. So here’s my no bs, list of rejections for us to enjoy together. Sunday May 26 2024在上海遇見了一個拿爆了時代紅利的平庸藝術家兼麻省理工退休教授在還未了解我的任何作品前就對我品頭論足，各種指責我說 「我沒搞懂」。要是七年前的我，可能就會全盤接受，覺得自己就是個屁，「哎呀老白男大佬真是火眼金睛」。但現在這個經過一番研究所x業界bs洗禮的我，現在只覺得可笑荒唐與憤怒。被這位作品如此平庸且坐擁資源的老先生踩，真的是氣到把頭髮全拔光有剩。重點是踩完我後居然還要求我介紹我之前展覽過的西班牙藝廊主人給他，笑死。 April-May 2024 Got invited to do some mfa/mps/bfa advising gigs in nyc these two months. Feeling extremely grateful to the people who saw something in me. In particular, thanking Chloe Li, Dora Do, and Sharleen Smith. Monday January 15 2024 In Chicago for a few days. Freezing. Spending some time with Nic. We went to watch Poor Things (2023) yesterday. It’s a really outstanding film. Calmed, doing better. Sunday December 31 2023If I have to be competely honest to myself and this page, I really really wanted to kill myself the past few days, and especially today; I think I almost did, if it wasn’t my grandma who called and cried. Which also reminded me I currently have a partner in Chicago that cares about me dearly as well. I can’t ruin his life like this. Sleeping on my mom’s death bed alone in Taiwan is hard. Not knowing how to drive and can’t go visit my mom’s tomb for her death anniversary is hard. Seeing my dad fucking with women my age is hard. Trying not to judge and care what’s going on in the world is hard. All the physical pain I’m suffering from mysterious reasons is alright though. I feel pathetic. As a failed daughter, as a human, and as a privileged brat that has barely accomplished anything since I graduated from all the “top programs” over and over again in the last few years. I wish I can at least pretend I’m fine. Thanks for reading, I already feel better. Wednesday November 1 2023I moved into my artist studio in Queens today. I hope to take myself seriously by paying $800/month to rent this windowless space in the name of making art. Thursday September 21 2023 zhuyan&nbsp;is in NYC for an art resdiency, I rented out my bedroom to her. Visited Chloe Li at Columbia’s MFA studio with zhuyan, had great tea, great talk and great dinner. Tuesday August 22 2023Had a studio visit via zoom with Mari. It feels great to be remembered by someone.&nbsp; Monday July 3 2023Made it out of China after quite an adventure...still recovering from all the experiences...Grateful for all the help received.&nbsp; Friday May 19 2023 Walked the Tisch graduation, had a concussion, had a really bad allergic reaction. But, period cramps not as painful this time, and Nic and Ayo took care of me. Flying to Shanghai and staying for two months soon. Wednesday April 26 2023Feeling grateful to all the new friends and mentors I met in the NYU Tisch IMA Low Res program, but also appreciating the long lasting friendships from Chicago, specifically to Susan, Mari, Christine, Zhuyan and Liza lately. This is also the second time I got COVID on my birthday. Feeling terrible physically but mentally doing great. Wednesday March 29 2023I’m grateful for all the artists I met at my museum and the auction house jobs. Together, we got insulted by visitors, helped art handling and sold 2.8 million dollars works, while getting paid $1 above minimum wage, with 100% professionalism. The love and care we have for each other continues even after leaving the jobs.&nbsp; Tuesday January 17 2023 Many loves from Berlin this month. Will be back.&nbsp; Friday April 15 2022I’m grateful to participate in Artist Nayland Blake’s Got An Art Problem? project for the 2022 Whitney Biennial. After an hour coversation inside a museum glass room, we exchaged drawings with each other. Monday November 8 2021During my brief 3 months at SVA, I appreciated Artist and Professor Peter Hristoff‘s kind heart, encouragement and honest conversations with me. Today is my last day seeing Peter, as I’ve decided to not go back to school. Thank you. Tuesday March 9 2021 I am grateful for all the artist friends and mentors I’ve met over the years in Chicago, some actually came to my MFA artist lecture today. It was a virtual one instead of the pretencious in-person version inside a room adjacent to the mighty Art Institute of Chicago (museum) main building, that I’ve been looking forward to since 2017, but whatever. Nothing matters after March 2020 anyway. <img width="989" height="1280" width_o="989" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f2d9dba202240cae0e9513551284a73c9f3ff4a0d97c559bde7eacc289ed71ea/photo_2021-03-08-13.08.29.jpeg" data-mid="172136401" border="0" data-scale="44" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/989/i/f2d9dba202240cae0e9513551284a73c9f3ff4a0d97c559bde7eacc289ed71ea/photo_2021-03-08-13.08.29.jpeg" /> As I’m graduating soon, I thought to write down all the artist mentors/professors that have truly either inspired me and/or cared about me or my practice during my years at Chicago. Most of these people I don’t talk to anymore (because I’m pretty socially awkward), but at least for a moment in life, I truly appreciated our encounters: Michiko Itatani, Mari Eastman, Tyson Reeder, Jacob Tonski,&nbsp;Sam Jaffe, Olivia Petrides,&nbsp;Gaylen Gerber, Matt Morris, Susan Kraut, Magdalena Moskalewicz, Claire Ashley, Mark Jeffery, Judd Morrissey, Kristin McWharter, Allie n Steve Mullen,&nbsp;Benjamin Melamed Pearson, Peter Burr, and&nbsp;Simon Anderson. Thank you. Friday February 19 2021 I am grateful for Artist &amp; Professor &amp; Department Chair&nbsp;Michelle Grabner introduced Sianne Ngai’s Theory of Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form (2020) to me during our MFA advising hours. This single exchange of knowledge was valuable depiste the rest of the semester was more...(eh) Some of my studio practices finally started making sense to myself after reading more about Ngai’s works.&nbsp; <img width="1478" height="1098" width_o="1478" height_o="1098" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6dd24ceb64eb2f42da98dee0cc40da2c509c81a6c5ad0bac346181a86be3801d/EuoNWo6XIAAFkWd.png" data-mid="172141321" border="0" data-scale="70" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6dd24ceb64eb2f42da98dee0cc40da2c509c81a6c5ad0bac346181a86be3801d/EuoNWo6XIAAFkWd.png" /> from Sianne Ngai’s&nbsp; Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting (2015)Friday February 6 2020I am grateful for Nic Johnson coming to my place for some dumplings, with a gift of the University of Chicago hoodie, following with a movie night out watching Marcel Duchamp: Art of the Possible. And then one thing led to another, we somehow became offically in a relationahip that night. I met Nic during my “Fuck Around the City to Loosen Up In Order to Become a Real Artist” journey. Needless to say how that turned out. Nic had brought me much more than what the journey could’ve done though, so I’m happy how it turned out I think 😳 (this is my effort of PDA for Nic). <img width="576" height="1020" width_o="576" height_o="1020" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3881bf1c57063e25d75a5d70bb0d6a7e529a73da122ed2fe5243aef6955253ea/NAP_2.jpeg" data-mid="172143132" border="0" data-scale="31" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/576/i/3881bf1c57063e25d75a5d70bb0d6a7e529a73da122ed2fe5243aef6955253ea/NAP_2.jpeg" /> Thursday November 28 2019I am grateful for my new artist friend ye zhuyan (葉竹妍). I have been in the same art history class with her this whole semester, but we didn’t talk at all until last week (she’s a social butterfly though lol). zhuyan is a first-year MFA in Photo, from China, but studied abroad in Taiwan for 4 years. She learned I had a heartbroken break up earlier this week, and insisted on taking me out on Thanksgiving, making sure I am not just home alone crying 🥹. We took a long train ride to suburbs, took naked photos (of her) in the woods. She introudced me to her friend, Yue Xu, a first-year MFA in Sculpture. It was a really fun day and way to spend Thanksgiving without family. Thank you. Friday September 6 2019I am grateful for knowing Susan Kraut. It is her show opening tonight, many people attended. When I was a post-bacc student 2 years ago, she has been taking good care of me. When I decided not to come back to Chicago last year, she continued to stay in touch with me throughout the year, whether I was in Israel, Palestine, Taiwan or Japan. When I decided to come back this year for the MFA program, she makes sure I am adjusting fine and offer to take me out for brunch every week. Thursday August 29 2019Caught a flu last night, and still don’t have an apartment to stay in Chicago. Very very grateful to my artist friends,&nbsp;Christine Tuner and Liza Eilers, for letting me stay with them for the first three weeks of the semester for free. Not only for free but treats me like a guest, and take super good care of me. Although I am still very new to the Midwest, I already feel super welcomed, and ready to call this place home for the next two years at least. Hopefully, the Chicago Winter won’t change my mind. Fall 2019 I took a Graduate Professional Practice Seminar course taught by Artist Matt Morris at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In that course, Matt got us did a tons of stuff that I really felt pain doing. For examples, generating 100 questions before an artist visit, writing gratitude diary, and making busienss cards. Today (March 17, 2023), when I was going through my messy hard drive, I found the word docx. with all my gratitude entries from that class. And wow, I actaully really appreciate them. As a person who’s used to living through life with hates and complains, I thought to try to pick up this gratitude practice again. Anyway, I don’t know why I’m explaining as if anyone’s ever gonna read through these stuff 😂 If you’ve read till this point, you are a little bit too obsessed with me yo. But if you do continue, just want to remind you that auto-correct and spelling is off on this page, I’m a FOB, and I have no idea how to write in proper Engrish grammar and spelling without the help of technology. If broken Engrish pains you, please leave. https://jjjcho.com/work Mon, 13 Feb 2023 19:04:37 +0000 Jaye TC Cho 卓均 https://jjjcho.com/work &nbsp; I’m making Art.&nbsp; I’m making Art.&nbsp; I’m making Art. https://jjjcho.com/hi-i-m-still-painting-seriously-2017-24 Fri, 17 Mar 2023 06:58:37 +0000 Jaye TC Cho 卓均 https://jjjcho.com/hi-i-m-still-painting-seriously-2017-24 still a painter 2017-2024 <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4f32ff821a4eb9b7c62b48a3c1fb4d35901c8ca36c78295fa4e66633242fdac6/94949A41-4E78-4230-9187-91F38B24225C-76454-00002EC60716614F.jpg" data-mid="213833865" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4f32ff821a4eb9b7c62b48a3c1fb4d35901c8ca36c78295fa4e66633242fdac6/94949A41-4E78-4230-9187-91F38B24225C-76454-00002EC60716614F.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/37804467ebbadab96cda39037878e4d8b5f5d5e6321ec6e7280e8fa18697db06/F4C87BB4-F4FD-461B-8B28-7913152EEA37-76454-00002EC4FF6EE9BD.jpg" data-mid="213833861" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/37804467ebbadab96cda39037878e4d8b5f5d5e6321ec6e7280e8fa18697db06/F4C87BB4-F4FD-461B-8B28-7913152EEA37-76454-00002EC4FF6EE9BD.jpg" /> <img width="971" height="1201" width_o="971" height_o="1201" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ef10d6f8082a16c4649ea7eb89ea9dbf2fdbcc81595f66e5481c799e196854d2/dr.png" data-mid="172217419" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/971/i/ef10d6f8082a16c4649ea7eb89ea9dbf2fdbcc81595f66e5481c799e196854d2/dr.png" /> <img width="1266" height="964" width_o="1266" height_o="964" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7f8c3e6c34e6aa2b615a4f719ccadf877d77acd2f1c2f63ab7fe89f28b68d404/hor.png" data-mid="172219080" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7f8c3e6c34e6aa2b615a4f719ccadf877d77acd2f1c2f63ab7fe89f28b68d404/hor.png" /> <img width="3202" height="2557" width_o="3202" height_o="2557" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f9143586bc17e31d4d5e8883746c05d0a492749b34f01c62092b3e3ec025d9e3/da.png" data-mid="172217302" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f9143586bc17e31d4d5e8883746c05d0a492749b34f01c62092b3e3ec025d9e3/da.png" /> recently, in the studio...(May 2024) <img width="3570" height="2851" width_o="3570" height_o="2851" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/849df02b01169e4c0156be276ebdd56699b613c0e4937eaaf6184126b6f244fc/NAP_1-1.jpeg" data-mid="172210247" border="0" data-scale="71" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/849df02b01169e4c0156be276ebdd56699b613c0e4937eaaf6184126b6f244fc/NAP_1-1.jpeg" />Wild Puppies, 202116”x20”, oil on canvas <img width="2246" height="2940" width_o="2246" height_o="2940" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8fd05f26afd9650fae051a8ae8712c6edf8af2030f2d189422d506e05eb17dd4/NAP_3-1.jpeg" data-mid="172210335" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8fd05f26afd9650fae051a8ae8712c6edf8af2030f2d189422d506e05eb17dd4/NAP_3-1.jpeg" /> <img width="2700" height="2645" width_o="2700" height_o="2645" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/886b58db90e033a6f5e91a78f3ec56d10e4b81f3b1ef0f891f70e1690fba9dc9/fir.png" data-mid="172217306" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/886b58db90e033a6f5e91a78f3ec56d10e4b81f3b1ef0f891f70e1690fba9dc9/fir.png" /> (left) Enema 3.0, 2021, 9”x12”, acrylic on canvas; (right) Got Hanged When Period Came, 2023, 24”x24”, oil on canvas <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0aec8e20b5febf4c7d27177d5c17d53045ef7094c705b341876c7ebb347f0400/IMG_2692.jpeg" data-mid="191744464" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0aec8e20b5febf4c7d27177d5c17d53045ef7094c705b341876c7ebb347f0400/IMG_2692.jpeg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fa31d8c49440aceef9cd78c04435662b84e0079cd28bfa692d06a7d23dbf9782/IMG_2715.jpeg" data-mid="191744481" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fa31d8c49440aceef9cd78c04435662b84e0079cd28bfa692d06a7d23dbf9782/IMG_2715.jpeg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/593130aa260d10e888bd0ef0f609125de16373c288178f9f4cbaf23bf9a994ca/IMG_2691.jpeg" data-mid="191744496" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/593130aa260d10e888bd0ef0f609125de16373c288178f9f4cbaf23bf9a994ca/IMG_2691.jpeg" /> MFA Thesis Show, 2021The school forgot about me, so I showed in a hallway. <img width="2700" height="3600" width_o="2700" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ca23a931876a9328ffbf09a25692d35bfcbf36c29bee82263cd429d79533c245/judy1.png" data-mid="172205996" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ca23a931876a9328ffbf09a25692d35bfcbf36c29bee82263cd429d79533c245/judy1.png" /> <img width="2700" height="3600" width_o="2700" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c1157e320481aca9e09791ba7ed4092a347833f7b4a29de757b3e6d59acf6363/judy3.png" data-mid="172206020" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c1157e320481aca9e09791ba7ed4092a347833f7b4a29de757b3e6d59acf6363/judy3.png" /> <img width="2700" height="3600" width_o="2700" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8860b9987cf20e2ac9fdc3d6674893cfd06f12455932f08ee3a6cc6e6a3ba36d/judy2.png" data-mid="172206011" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8860b9987cf20e2ac9fdc3d6674893cfd06f12455932f08ee3a6cc6e6a3ba36d/judy2.png" /> <img width="2700" height="3600" width_o="2700" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c6027f65330f18a73d8da110a3d0c50ae3dd6fbdf8362a4696ca0d9699ce1ae5/judy4.png" data-mid="172206021" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c6027f65330f18a73d8da110a3d0c50ae3dd6fbdf8362a4696ca0d9699ce1ae5/judy4.png" /> Judy 1982, 1994, 1996, 2016,9”x12”, acrylic on paper (2018) (you can move the works, btw) <img width="779" height="779" width_o="779" height_o="779" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2b61ab6b22594f7e514d7ac5096ec34c4d115c168b742eed21a7fd1fa2a5b846/photo_2020-08-30-19.59.09.png" data-mid="172151290" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/779/i/2b61ab6b22594f7e514d7ac5096ec34c4d115c168b742eed21a7fd1fa2a5b846/photo_2020-08-30-19.59.09.png" /> <img width="2700" height="2700" width_o="2700" height_o="2700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c21f732b9e92959f62546b6525f1d23b74c5d5f498efc90d2a4faf46b2c5fa96/constip.png" data-mid="172206358" border="0" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/81db7e136652e8e812e33d4b6a83fd8120fa54c27d45254a5113771050945ee8/shit.png" data-mid="172206305" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/81db7e136652e8e812e33d4b6a83fd8120fa54c27d45254a5113771050945ee8/shit.png" /> <img width="4200" height="3300" width_o="4200" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/53fb6f4a3d1e77dda1d52a78d5e8eeb19f8586a8488c4ebfcd62aaed411fcb9d/museum.png" data-mid="172208248" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/53fb6f4a3d1e77dda1d52a78d5e8eeb19f8586a8488c4ebfcd62aaed411fcb9d/museum.png" /> <img width="2700" height="3600" width_o="2700" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cc9ee7f414128fe4238c4bb24f61ff4a6ea95679ba87e3afb7e63285eebe6eae/line.png" data-mid="172206642" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cc9ee7f414128fe4238c4bb24f61ff4a6ea95679ba87e3afb7e63285eebe6eae/line.png" /> <img width="3600" height="4800" width_o="3600" height_o="4800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5307d0192a5b0840eac779b263f55daca9c594d67af5c5ca947b0d2eac4230aa/w.png" data-mid="172208925" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5307d0192a5b0840eac779b263f55daca9c594d67af5c5ca947b0d2eac4230aa/w.png" /> <img width="3300" height="4200" width_o="3300" height_o="4200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/03a623af07ca8298504eb59fb72074130714e9a0d44074f52b0eab246c81ce75/diedie.jpg" data-mid="172208251" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/03a623af07ca8298504eb59fb72074130714e9a0d44074f52b0eab246c81ce75/diedie.jpg" /> <img width="3249" height="4178" width_o="3249" height_o="4178" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d932030004dec800f1fb0f8db4d88eb9ea1e5e2e8318ca873485fa0e86bcafc1/jj.png" data-mid="172209635" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d932030004dec800f1fb0f8db4d88eb9ea1e5e2e8318ca873485fa0e86bcafc1/jj.png" /> <img width="2505" height="2616" width_o="2505" height_o="2616" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e7870d0d93118cacf05f4c091458d333e79599bf4c0b5965cc1e6bed64e26891/bb.png" data-mid="172209858" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e7870d0d93118cacf05f4c091458d333e79599bf4c0b5965cc1e6bed64e26891/bb.png" /> <img width="4200" height="2700" width_o="4200" height_o="2700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ca0e14771c974b1dab62a3d698d059c513ac0fbb1f1526eea0b32b08fd7dd6ae/body.png" data-mid="172209089" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ca0e14771c974b1dab62a3d698d059c513ac0fbb1f1526eea0b32b08fd7dd6ae/body.png" /> Mostly paintings and prints about constipation, diarrhea, bunion, art school inside jokes, Buddhism, 2019-2020,9”x11”, 11”x14”,16”x20”, acrylic or oil on canvases, or screenprint&nbsp; <img width="3806" height="2813" width_o="3806" height_o="2813" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7e36aea3277ddb8556c75dfed63243786822510e3f8fa91cd58b6657310da4ff/IMG_9971.jpeg" data-mid="172210270" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7e36aea3277ddb8556c75dfed63243786822510e3f8fa91cd58b6657310da4ff/IMG_9971.jpeg" /> <img width="6947" height="5051" width_o="6947" height_o="5051" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ff4ffceeffa2602cc115d4712db80a7d02f6d287a8346066e320087c33ad5e48/Texture_07.jpeg" data-mid="172210275" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ff4ffceeffa2602cc115d4712db80a7d02f6d287a8346066e320087c33ad5e48/Texture_07.jpeg" /> <img width="3826" height="2809" width_o="3826" height_o="2809" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/22a6a4453ebc7ddf1919ba5e1fcaafec135cf93b600e62c65024808821bf20ff/IMG_9969-1.jpeg" data-mid="172210273" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/22a6a4453ebc7ddf1919ba5e1fcaafec135cf93b600e62c65024808821bf20ff/IMG_9969-1.jpeg" /> Rooms, 20219”x12”, acrylic on paper <img width="4096" height="2304" width_o="4096" height_o="2304" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b58d175a54a8c645355bffa71ae9bdc3b25e949875d9b3d888852b5f73831984/546233631.060339-1.jpg" data-mid="172017081" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b58d175a54a8c645355bffa71ae9bdc3b25e949875d9b3d888852b5f73831984/546233631.060339-1.jpg" /> Square Paintings, 201820”x20”, oil on canvas <img width="3133" height="2094" width_o="3133" height_o="2094" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/96d1d1d3403a37e822810119ca17c69ded5cf8f226f1315619a8029ebe9b231a/IMG_0328.jpeg" data-mid="172150542" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/96d1d1d3403a37e822810119ca17c69ded5cf8f226f1315619a8029ebe9b231a/IMG_0328.jpeg" /> <img width="3300" height="4200" width_o="3300" height_o="4200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4b7898c78e2357b9a131240375ec3f4cf3e08ea2dde40a9191e80d3032fb827e/graduation.png" data-mid="172208655" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4b7898c78e2357b9a131240375ec3f4cf3e08ea2dde40a9191e80d3032fb827e/graduation.png" /> ^I found out my friend that I gifted the above painting to just threw it away earlier this Spring in 2024. It was the most serious painting I did back in my naive Berkeley days. As a result, I’m moving the beginning of my “Painting Days” from 2015 to 2017.&nbsp; https://jjjcho.com/Seven-Months-in-the-Art-World-Turned-3-Years-2021-2024 Fri, 17 Mar 2023 07:37:45 +0000 Jaye TC Cho 卓均 https://jjjcho.com/Seven-Months-in-the-Art-World-Turned-3-Years-2021-2024 7+ Months in the Art World Oct 2021- Sept 2024 <img width="1910" height="562" width_o="1910" height_o="562" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2e883059cf6c83dd45f029011ba1549bb1b9e168a2b15d64a22ae3595d07c80b/Screenshot-2024-11-17-at-21.02.23.png" data-mid="221932859" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2e883059cf6c83dd45f029011ba1549bb1b9e168a2b15d64a22ae3595d07c80b/Screenshot-2024-11-17-at-21.02.23.png" /> <img width="1024" height="768" width_o="1024" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d0e542b1c33c7f80c1b586a10402577d1db5d6748ff2acf0c0b74078602d5024/42BC8F3C-416E-4400-BFA2-FB86B212CF92_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="172019090" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d0e542b1c33c7f80c1b586a10402577d1db5d6748ff2acf0c0b74078602d5024/42BC8F3C-416E-4400-BFA2-FB86B212CF92_1_105_c.jpeg" /> <img width="1280" height="1707" width_o="1280" height_o="1707" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c640603ae20a59dd7d8c3f298731b4040f62391a40f4b4de79ca37faf33c81bb/content.jpeg" data-mid="187093564" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c640603ae20a59dd7d8c3f298731b4040f62391a40f4b4de79ca37faf33c81bb/content.jpeg" /> ︎ ︎︎︎(god forbid real artist to have LinkedIn profile. so here’s mine.) I started working in the art world, hoping it would make me stop feeling like an outsider. But 3 years later, I still feel like an outsider. The only difference is that I’m no longer sure if I even want to be an insider, even if I could.Don’t get me wrong—unless someone miraculously cures my social anxiety and natural awkwardness, I doubt I’d ever have a real chance of making it. What really sucks is seeing friends who are making it feel more and more distant. It’s reached a point where I don’t think we can even talk anymore. To Start: USA, NYC, Bubble Tea I came to the United States in August 2007,for more than 12 years, I was a resident taxes payer, even though I did not have legal rights to work. Which means, while I couldn’t make any income outside of school work study, I had to pay for what I made overseas. That’s right, I love the USA so much, I agreed to a crazy deal like this. No legal rights, but pay all the overseas taxes again in the US.&nbsp; As a result, when I could finally work legally in the States in 2021, I immediately applied to jobs at famous bubble tea shops in New York City. Working as a bubble tea shop barista was my dream job since 9th grade. Soon, as the oldest but also only Taiwanese part-time worker at a Midtown Manhattan bubble tea + fried chicken restaurant, I was exhausted everyday, but also instantly became the star employee (I rarely feel so confident about one thing, but I really was an exceptional service worker, let along boba tea was originated from my motherland). When I finally had enough fun of it, and was ready to quit, managers from the HQ came in suit to ask me to stay. I agreed to stay for another week and helped train their franchisee who flew in from Florida for training. The Museum Job While it was fun making drinks and food all-day none-stop, I quickly found myself drifting far away from the Art World. So, when there was a gallery assistant opening at the Whitney Museum of American Art, I applied. After two rounds of interview and 3 phone calls to my references, I got the job. I worked through the Jasper Johns Retrospective, the&nbsp;Making Knowing: Craft in Art, the Jennifer Packer Solo Exhibition, the&nbsp;My Barbarian’s Survey Exhibition, the 2022 Whitney Biennial, and it was finally time to quit. <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ff9d3eeaa643b5b1c6dcd28b0ea485f1234e308a8c089868cf5785d07b2d187d/IMG_6148.jpeg" data-mid="172487966" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ff9d3eeaa643b5b1c6dcd28b0ea485f1234e308a8c089868cf5785d07b2d187d/IMG_6148.jpeg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ef59bee22a2abe076f65d01deb949fa19811aa3ad0ebf0f955771e9d583f119b/43CF2358-4487-479D-85AD-866DB0768715.jpeg" data-mid="172487979" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ef59bee22a2abe076f65d01deb949fa19811aa3ad0ebf0f955771e9d583f119b/43CF2358-4487-479D-85AD-866DB0768715.jpeg" /> All great artwork aside, the amount of insults and humiliation from the museum visitors daily truly came as a surprise. I’ve never been so belittled straight in my face by total strangers in my life. Internally, the fight between the museum and the union formation was also a fascinating learning lesson to me. Honestly speaking, I don’t know if I can ever learn to trust again after going through all that toxic drama inside the institution. However, I am grateful to all the learning opportunities provided by this job, whether those came intensionally or not. I learned so much about the BS in the art world, straight from the core, especially through working all those VIP events and encountering al the big names in the art world. I am also grateful for all the amazing artists slash colleagues I met at the job. &nbsp; <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e26924044dacf76976562cbccb278820b0fb2e190660da0ab1ba5716e6c0e0d9/90D02938-8039-4F51-B901-693C0AAD8BE4.jpeg" data-mid="172487779" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e26924044dacf76976562cbccb278820b0fb2e190660da0ab1ba5716e6c0e0d9/90D02938-8039-4F51-B901-693C0AAD8BE4.jpeg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8a61afb0c0d14ebcad727f94ff5c35a8cbdd130eb349646aa30c3b3255d6b0d9/A1EA6206-FC6D-4EEF-906E-AEE94B8B3035.jpeg" data-mid="172487769" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8a61afb0c0d14ebcad727f94ff5c35a8cbdd130eb349646aa30c3b3255d6b0d9/A1EA6206-FC6D-4EEF-906E-AEE94B8B3035.jpeg" /> Staff drawings on the board behind the coat check area, managers came to erase all the drawings regularly. <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/580fed8aaced9e427bce30b77a0e2c80ca3dabc0cbace100e32787a0d1f3c82f/IMG_6873.jpeg" data-mid="172488013" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/580fed8aaced9e427bce30b77a0e2c80ca3dabc0cbace100e32787a0d1f3c82f/IMG_6873.jpeg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6fbe4d8836b307a48da5454fc3a1aa2adf3e29848f9c6f62922700d1b0d675ab/31D10312-DBDF-42EE-B4A8-FB5B563DD928.jpeg" data-mid="172488018" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6fbe4d8836b307a48da5454fc3a1aa2adf3e29848f9c6f62922700d1b0d675ab/31D10312-DBDF-42EE-B4A8-FB5B563DD928.jpeg" /> Staff are not allowed to take tips at the museum, but sometimes a visitor would insist on dropping something. While most days I was overwhilmed by the rudeness and insults from vistors, angel-like visitors occasionally appear. The most polite, and the most eager to learn about art (and then maybe casually dropped a $50 at coat check, winked, and left).&nbsp; The Auction House Job <img width="1398" height="978" width_o="1398" height_o="978" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/84315d3cfff6ed235a814a274993a79fb63fe40ca82a84d62d870dee3fd5c588/Screen-Shot-2023-03-27-at-1.06.13-AM.png" data-mid="173182763" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/84315d3cfff6ed235a814a274993a79fb63fe40ca82a84d62d870dee3fd5c588/Screen-Shot-2023-03-27-at-1.06.13-AM.png" /> <img width="960" height="1280" width_o="960" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ef1388f001487ca211f49412acd877ee3f997f5fc35fbb0757999475fa55153a/photo_2023-09-24-17.38.58.jpeg" data-mid="191728020" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/ef1388f001487ca211f49412acd877ee3f997f5fc35fbb0757999475fa55153a/photo_2023-09-24-17.38.58.jpeg" /> While I worked most days of a week at the Whitney, I picked up another gallery assistant job at the Christie’s during my museum off days. (*Christie’s,the very auction house that sold Beeple’s NFT at $69 millions during the pandemic.) Due to the NDA I signed, not much will be spoken here (yet). &nbsp; <img width="1125" height="2436" width_o="1125" height_o="2436" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2f63be0c3272461c7fc7234d7fee42c6a597cfd0dcbd97ac4394e80728a177e8/F907AD63-05B1-4964-B8A3-8320F7075724.png" data-mid="172488641" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2f63be0c3272461c7fc7234d7fee42c6a597cfd0dcbd97ac4394e80728a177e8/F907AD63-05B1-4964-B8A3-8320F7075724.png" /> <img width="1125" height="2436" width_o="1125" height_o="2436" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a8f6f28e6905e6ce417badc9435bafce2a2d6884bc3d2092d8f1deb9c0f72d73/11AE5697-A66E-455B-A438-F3897226AD65.png" data-mid="172488645" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a8f6f28e6905e6ce417badc9435bafce2a2d6884bc3d2092d8f1deb9c0f72d73/11AE5697-A66E-455B-A438-F3897226AD65.png" /> <img width="1125" height="2436" width_o="1125" height_o="2436" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0806c35295a34dc0fef5dba4ecf85d39968ad91ff341dbc5674ca4ae414d916e/8D2874B7-61B3-42C0-9D4A-3B9699A5BFB2.png" data-mid="172488653" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0806c35295a34dc0fef5dba4ecf85d39968ad91ff341dbc5674ca4ae414d916e/8D2874B7-61B3-42C0-9D4A-3B9699A5BFB2.png" /> <img width="1125" height="2436" width_o="1125" height_o="2436" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2c0bb096a112b84828ca1f018df5b8b9eb04dd05c53bddde2755845fc3469fa7/CF5EA3FF-E198-4B7C-9EA7-9A98C696C74C.png" data-mid="172488652" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2c0bb096a112b84828ca1f018df5b8b9eb04dd05c53bddde2755845fc3469fa7/CF5EA3FF-E198-4B7C-9EA7-9A98C696C74C.png" /> Might come back and type more later. https://jjjcho.com/A-Digital-Readymade-A-Deliberative-Democracy-Experiment-2022-2023 Thu, 27 Jun 2024 18:49:27 +0000 Jaye TC Cho 卓均 https://jjjcho.com/A-Digital-Readymade-A-Deliberative-Democracy-Experiment-2022-2023 A Deliberative Democracy Experiment 一場審議式民主實驗 2022-2023&nbsp;A digital readymade that aims to create a safe yet brave place to trigger/facilitate discussions and debates. 一個數位現成物，旨在創造一個「安全」但「勇敢」的場所，以促進討論和辯論。 <img width="2298" height="1394" width_o="2298" height_o="1394" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/848eb7bb8b6857ac09aebbf0bab72e43055c856eba02d8d5c29defb442e555ce/Screenshot-2024-06-28-at-04.11.29.png" data-mid="213744546" border="0" data-scale="69" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/848eb7bb8b6857ac09aebbf0bab72e43055c856eba02d8d5c29defb442e555ce/Screenshot-2024-06-28-at-04.11.29.png" /> This project is about navigating the duality of truth in an era that is getting harder and harder to make friends and communicate honestly without offending anyone. 這個藝術項目是關於在這個時代中探索真理的二元性。 在這個時代，在不冒犯任何人的前提下誠實交流變得越來越困難。&nbsp; <img width="2304" height="1292" width_o="2304" height_o="1292" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/11d123337fac3cebca41ada17596f111f10fb32a5b6213499aed4ceb22e8d82e/Screenshot-2024-06-28-at-04.13.59.png" data-mid="213744555" border="0" data-scale="70" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/11d123337fac3cebca41ada17596f111f10fb32a5b6213499aed4ceb22e8d82e/Screenshot-2024-06-28-at-04.13.59.png" /> The project is built using Miro Board, a privately owned whiteboard software/ online tool that is widely used by companies and educational institutions as a digital collaboration platform. The project's content is built using several internet-based news sources, as well as clip art illustrations from an open licensed Japanese website called Irasutoya. This particular way of building the project is my tribute to all the readymade art before me. I found the form of the project itself also connects to the recent boom in AI generative tools and the conversation around it.&nbsp; 這個作品使用了Miro Board來建構，Miro是一款廣泛被企業和教育機構使用的私人白板軟體/在線工具。以一個會議工具來說被廣泛使用，但是作為藝術媒介來使用並不是一件常見的事。我的這件作品的內容物來自多個互聯網新聞來源，以及一個名為Irasutoya的智慧產權開放許可的日本網站上的剪貼畫插圖。這種建構方式是我對藝術史上的現成藝術們(Readymades)的致敬。作品形式也與近期AI生成工具的熱潮和相關討論相聯繫。 Miro board became my choice of platform because of its web friendliness, intuitiveness, and its mix of high-tech and low-tech at the same time. I particularly love its sticky notes function, which allows users to stick anywhere on the board and write in. This resonates with the usage of sticky notes in creating a physical “democracy wall” during many student movements and protests globally in the past few years. I also chose Miro because of the ability to see the live actions of all other users while everyone stays anonymous. Although Miro board software comes with a built-in function to host live voting, I chose to build a visual and manual voting system because the action of each user’s computer mouse is what I find important as a part of the interaction and discussion. 我選擇Miro Board作為平台，因為它網絡友好、直觀，兼具高科技和低科技的特點。我特別喜歡其便利貼功能，用戶可以在白板上隨意貼貼並寫字，這讓我聯想到近年來全球學生運動和抗議活動中使用便利貼創建“民主牆”的做法。我選擇Miro還因為所有參與者都可以看到其他參與者的實時操作，但與此同時仍保持匿名。執得一提的是，儘管Miro自帶實時投票功能，但我選擇建立一個視覺和手動投票系統，因為我認為每個參與者的電腦鼠標的操作行為是互動和討論的重要組成部分之一。 <img width="2856" height="1614" width_o="2856" height_o="1614" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dee10d8de58f95f77da659f4e6a101fabe7e0e9ffeb1e00f99d54e58532e749c/Screenshot-2024-06-28-at-04.38.20.png" data-mid="213745166" border="0" data-scale="76" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dee10d8de58f95f77da659f4e6a101fabe7e0e9ffeb1e00f99d54e58532e749c/Screenshot-2024-06-28-at-04.38.20.png" /> The miro board I built is a huge treasure hunting map/game. Participants follow the dotted lines to go to various voting stations and conduct live voting together. If they don’t like their options, they can choose not to vote, or start a post-it war on the side to share their thoughts with other participants instead. Based on the partcipated group, I start each map/game with some specfiic, relevant ice-breaker questions. For example, during a session with students and faculty from a graduate program at the New York University with roughly 70% Americans and 30% Chinese partcipants, I started up with some maybe awkward but maybe funny NYU brand name ROI question for people to vote on.&nbsp; 我建的Miro Board 作品是一個大型尋寶地圖/遊戲。參與者沿著虛線前往各個投票站，並一起進行現場投票。如果他們不喜歡選項，可以選擇不投票，或者在旁邊開始便利貼戰爭，與其他參與者分享他們的想法。根據每場投票參與者群體的不同，我會用一些具體且相關的破冰問題來開始每張地圖/遊戲。例如上圖，在與紐約大學研究所裡的學生和教職員進行活動時，因為事先知道大約70%的參與者是美國人，30%是中國人，我使用了雙語並且問了一些可能尷尬但有趣的紐約大學品牌價值問題讓大家進行投票。在下面的範例中，我接著用雙語問了一個假設題，主要在「逼迫」參與者在美國社會問題和中國社會問題中作出抉擇，屆而做到反思以及對於社會上的各種理所當然的激辯。 <img width="519" height="299" width_o="519" height_o="299" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4e7827c7168c7c573442fbbf6724a403b554e6bd9042a0e698e96f2876d2d459/ScreenRecording2023-04-18at10.26.40PM1-ezgif.com-crop.gif" data-mid="213740791" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/519/i/4e7827c7168c7c573442fbbf6724a403b554e6bd9042a0e698e96f2876d2d459/ScreenRecording2023-04-18at10.26.40PM1-ezgif.com-crop.gif" /> <img width="2776" height="1464" width_o="2776" height_o="1464" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ef8a26e1c0c4eba4148a469236c78babed1587c8a5dac301a5e51200ee9019d4/Screenshot-2024-06-28-at-04.34.47.png" data-mid="213745049" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ef8a26e1c0c4eba4148a469236c78babed1587c8a5dac301a5e51200ee9019d4/Screenshot-2024-06-28-at-04.34.47.png" /> A little bit background about the project: Growing up, my family constantly fought over political differences. The fights got intense often, and I remember hiding in the bedroom, praying the sounds of quarreling would end soon. As a result, as an adult, I became proudly politically indifferent, seeing anyone who engaged in political activities as a fanatic. However, as the old saying goes: “Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.” It took me a decade of trying to escape from understanding politics to realize that freedom should not be taken for granted. Without us exercising the civic duty of maintaining, challenging, and participating in thoughtful democratic discussions and decision-making, the freedom we enjoy in everyday life can disappear in an instant.在成長過程中，我的家庭經常因為政治分歧而爭吵，我的媽媽是國民黨員，我的爸爸是民進黨員，而且兩人皆非常參與各自黨內的活動。爭吵常常變得非常激烈，我記得自己躲在臥室裡，祈禱爭吵聲能快點結束。（現在回想，他們究竟如何成為戀人甚至夫妻真的是很神奇的事。）因爲這樣的成長環境，長大後的我曾經驕傲地對政治極度冷感，認為任何參與政治活動的人都是狂熱分子。然而，正如古話所說：「你不關心政治，並不代表政治不會關心你。」我經歷了數十年的時間逃避理解政治，才意識到自由不應被視為理所當然。如果我們不履行公民責任，維護、挑戰和參與深思熟慮的民主討論和決策，我們日常生活中享有的自由可能會在不注意的瞬間消失。 <img width="2550" height="1544" width_o="2550" height_o="1544" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8ec0d1ae12010e6f01440d8b1f8718ab428c9e29f7d4f775d1008e764ac9694b/Screenshot-2024-06-28-at-04.31.30.png" data-mid="213744997" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8ec0d1ae12010e6f01440d8b1f8718ab428c9e29f7d4f775d1008e764ac9694b/Screenshot-2024-06-28-at-04.31.30.png" /> <img width="2166" height="1408" width_o="2166" height_o="1408" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c296e69749af4aa78274705ca57f0366114aa9e01c5a3bd8c994d55999f5049b/Screenshot-2024-06-28-at-04.50.49.png" data-mid="213745675" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c296e69749af4aa78274705ca57f0366114aa9e01c5a3bd8c994d55999f5049b/Screenshot-2024-06-28-at-04.50.49.png" /> The advancement of social networks, and generative AI tools, while bringing many conveniences to our lives, have also made fake news more and more natural. The line between fact and fiction is now completely blurred, as is the line between truth and fake. The ability to arrive at a “fact” that most people can agree on seems almost impossible.社交網絡和生成式AI工具的進步，雖然為我們的生活帶來了許多便利，但也使假新聞變得愈發普遍。事實與虛構之間的界限現在完全模糊，真相與虛假之間的界限亦是如此。達成大多數人都能同意的“事實”的能力似乎變得幾乎不可能。 <img width="575" height="319" width_o="575" height_o="319" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e7bc1baf378bd56cdc3ca2aae792f842f04bc0a1567138ebfcddf6c6d9e82f6a/ScreenRecording2023-04-18at10.23.58PM-ezgif.com-crop.gif" data-mid="213747249" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/575/i/e7bc1baf378bd56cdc3ca2aae792f842f04bc0a1567138ebfcddf6c6d9e82f6a/ScreenRecording2023-04-18at10.23.58PM-ezgif.com-crop.gif" /> <img width="2736" height="1624" width_o="2736" height_o="1624" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f0ea397e0b6572457001b2629f780a3809bdeeb11f9a1d2bffd32b94a0b7595c/Screenshot-2024-06-28-at-04.28.15.png" data-mid="213744974" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f0ea397e0b6572457001b2629f780a3809bdeeb11f9a1d2bffd32b94a0b7595c/Screenshot-2024-06-28-at-04.28.15.png" /> Even within a like-minded group, having earnest conversations on societal topics had also become difficult, especially with cancel culture as the dominating solution for resolving a conflict. Surrounded by these situations in my daily life, I set this project as a journey to explore tools and methods that can possibly help initiate and/or facilitate honest conversations on complex topics within groups of people.即使在志同道合的群體中，真誠地討論社會話題也變得困難，尤其是在取消文化成為解決衝突的主流方法時。在這些情況環繞的日常生活中，我設立了這件互動作品，旨在探索可能幫助促進對複雜話題進行誠實對話的環境。 Additional: This project was also introduced as a thesis / work in progress in a 10-min presentation in June 2023. The video provides a more personal glance behind the scene that led to the formation of this project and idea.&nbsp; https://jjjcho.com/Toxic-Positivity-2023 Fri, 17 Mar 2023 06:30:00 +0000 Jaye TC Cho 卓均 https://jjjcho.com/Toxic-Positivity-2023 Toxic Positivity (2023) 有毒正能量 <img width="1732" height="1366" width_o="1732" height_o="1366" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/92e37fc21faf788837b4ff115ad07b5e8f6adbe24e8a95e141d31b7cb8e0a21c/Screen-Shot-2023-03-26-at-11.37.12-PM-1-1.png" data-mid="213836308" border="0" data-scale="63" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/92e37fc21faf788837b4ff115ad07b5e8f6adbe24e8a95e141d31b7cb8e0a21c/Screen-Shot-2023-03-26-at-11.37.12-PM-1-1.png" /> When learning about the communication and networking technologies with media artist Sarah Grant and Danja Vasiliev during my visit at&nbsp;Studio Weise7 in Berlin, I was faciniated by a lot of fun works The Critical Engineering Working Group has done in the past, such as the Men In Grey (2009-2014), and the Newstweek (2011). 此項目為在柏林參訪前衛藝術家團體所經營的 Studio Weise7 時，在藝術家夫妻Sarah Grant 與 Danja Vasiliev 的技術協助下所完成的一件作品。 <img width="1902" height="1872" width_o="1902" height_o="1872" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9dcb52ac9b9253faf19a59dfb8dad14e8e6a0944e4cd48ab1c3551ec294674c1/Screen-Shot-2023-03-21-at-3.03.20-AM.png" data-mid="172488911" border="0" data-scale="56" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9dcb52ac9b9253faf19a59dfb8dad14e8e6a0944e4cd48ab1c3551ec294674c1/Screen-Shot-2023-03-21-at-3.03.20-AM.png" /> <img width="1280" height="960" width_o="1280" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c52505222e41c017eebbd7def1ebf0e00de8653146717183ea2aa5ad5dce7509/photo_2023-03-26-23.31.20.jpeg" data-mid="173178343" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c52505222e41c017eebbd7def1ebf0e00de8653146717183ea2aa5ad5dce7509/photo_2023-03-26-23.31.20.jpeg" /> <img width="960" height="1280" width_o="960" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/00f343be63781e69ed527fdba626f883141f949e7d24e244d4177f85b924b3bb/photo_2023-03-26-23.31.41.jpeg" data-mid="173178390" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/00f343be63781e69ed527fdba626f883141f949e7d24e244d4177f85b924b3bb/photo_2023-03-26-23.31.41.jpeg" /> <img width="584" height="310" width_o="584" height_o="310" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/234a09ce28a3e481fa3cd2b5b02def3a249ca926f1d0d4199f1d8d0d5c337664/Screen-Shot-2023-01-19-at-1.56.58-PM.png" data-mid="172014375" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/584/i/234a09ce28a3e481fa3cd2b5b02def3a249ca926f1d0d4199f1d8d0d5c337664/Screen-Shot-2023-01-19-at-1.56.58-PM.png" /> <img width="1224" height="817" width_o="1224" height_o="817" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/657ad962abadd01a8bf6610777981a8eb92d9f935013cd3e8fc17650b88a38b2/IMALR_Weise7_17.jpeg" data-mid="172021859" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/657ad962abadd01a8bf6610777981a8eb92d9f935013cd3e8fc17650b88a38b2/IMALR_Weise7_17.jpeg" /> My interest lies in the potential manipulation of information transmitted over insecure network connections. While the switch from "http" to "https" has made data manipulation more challenging in recent years, certain loopholes remain. Surprisingly, upon conducting a Google search, I discovered that many of the top 100 unsecured websites are linked to the Chinese Communist Party - including the official government site, the People's Daily, and Baidu, China's equivalent of Google. The reasons behind this trend remain unclear.身為一個千禧世代，我對於駭入不安全網絡連接中來傳輸信息一直都抱有幻想。雖然近年大部分網頁都從「http」升級到了「https」讓駭進系統進行數據操縱變得更具挑戰性。令人驚訝的是，在進行一陣Google搜尋後，我發現世界排名前100的不安全網站有過半都與中國共產黨有關，其中包括官方政府網站《人民日報》和中國的Google：百度。這一趨勢背後的原因不明。&nbsp; With the help from Studio Weise7, I learned to utilize&nbsp;Raspberry Pi as a Wi-Fi antenna, and using Squid and Privoxy to filter words and links people can access on the Wi-Fi connection. 在 Studio Weise7 的幫助下，我學會了利用 Raspberry Pi 作為 Wi-Fi天線，並使用 Squid 和 Privoxy 來過濾人們在 Wi-Fi連接上的網站並對內容操作後台竄改。 Despite functioning as a regular free Wi-Fi, this network alters user data when accessing unsecured websites, such as the People's Daily - the principal news media outlet controlled by the Chinese government. My initial steps involved redirecting hyperlinks on the People's Daily front page, ones lauding Xi Jinping's achievements, towards the Human Rights Watch's online report detailing Xi's human rights violations over the past year.儘管我所架設的這個公共網絡像普通免費Wi-Fi一樣運行，但在訪問不安全網站（http）時會在後台改變用戶數據。在這裡舉個例子，若是使用我所架設的公共Wifi連上《人民日報》官網，當點擊官網上任何讚揚習近平的成就超鏈結時，訪問者將被重定向到人權觀察組織的在線報告，該報告詳細介紹了習近平在過去一年中的人權侵犯行為。 <img width="2552" height="1838" width_o="2552" height_o="1838" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ed8d59f2c18321fd3ecedbb92bc5d6aa932dba1a780bbc55139c3f8f93ec32fa/Screen-Shot-2023-03-26-at-11.18.05-PM.png" data-mid="173178040" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ed8d59f2c18321fd3ecedbb92bc5d6aa932dba1a780bbc55139c3f8f93ec32fa/Screen-Shot-2023-03-26-at-11.18.05-PM.png" /> <img width="2434" height="1920" width_o="2434" height_o="1920" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b0cc689dfc37211fbb0721e63ce9ba2864160410960b8c010623ded0d6b8e09f/Screen-Shot-2023-03-26-at-11.19.02-PM.png" data-mid="173178036" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b0cc689dfc37211fbb0721e63ce9ba2864160410960b8c010623ded0d6b8e09f/Screen-Shot-2023-03-26-at-11.19.02-PM.png" /> After clicking on the top banner, instead of being direct to the site displaying all Xi’s accomplisments, site visitors are directed to the Human Rights Watch Section on China’s human rights issue instead. Upon noticing the disproportionately high mentions of "China" and "U.S." on Chinese government-controlled websites, I decided to subtly manipulate the narrative. Simply by swapping all mentions of "China" with "Taiwan" and "U.S." with "China", I completely transformed the news context. This marked my first successful venture into the spread of fabricated news. Consequently, site visitors will not see the original text, but my modified version as illustrated below.除此之外，在注意到中國政府控制的網站上提到「中國」和「美國」的比例異常高後，我決定悄悄「修改」敘事。好比說，通過簡單的將所有網站所提到的「中國」換成「台灣」，且將「美國」換成「中國」，我徹底改變了新聞的語境，進而成功進行假新聞的傳播。使用我所提供的免費Wifi使用者在訪問這些網站時將不會看到原始文本，而是看到如下所示的修改過後的版本。 原始新聞： 「中國在國際舞台上扮演著越來越重要的角色，美國的政策需要加強對中國的關注。」 透過我所架設Wifi所看到的新聞： 「台灣在國際舞台上扮演著越來越重要的角色，中國的政策需要加強對台灣的關注。」 <img width="2880" height="1914" width_o="2880" height_o="1914" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5fb0d23fb03d74d2ecae601a22c55cb28a9413766a82460ebda4aa3bf45c9809/Screen-Shot-2023-03-26-at-11.25.01-PM.png" data-mid="173178183" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5fb0d23fb03d74d2ecae601a22c55cb28a9413766a82460ebda4aa3bf45c9809/Screen-Shot-2023-03-26-at-11.25.01-PM.png" /> <img width="2818" height="1906" width_o="2818" height_o="1906" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b56e5469962579ed0b03b5015fa5d71a4f853dab50aef1d6aad40f97cdf136e2/Screen-Shot-2023-01-19-at-1.54.27-PM.png" data-mid="172488956" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b56e5469962579ed0b03b5015fa5d71a4f853dab50aef1d6aad40f97cdf136e2/Screen-Shot-2023-01-19-at-1.54.27-PM.png" /> (left): Original site; (right): Altered site Conceptually, I was pleased with the outcome, demonstrating the ease with which the news and information we receive can be altered seamlessly. Yet, for a touch of whimsy and exhibition purposes, I introduced a harmless but noticeable modification: transforming all instances of "Xi" into "Winnie-the-Pooh." 在概念上，我對上述的結果感到滿意，它展示了我們接收到的新聞和信息可以輕易地被無縫修改。然而，為了增加趣味性和展示的目的，在公開的展覽中，我引入了另一個無害但明顯的修改：我的Wifi將所有提到「習近平」的地方改成「小熊維尼」。範例請看下圖。 <img width="1954" height="2000" width_o="1954" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/99c18ec5dc7c887f39692f6f3b5abad49bac09ab9a42039c098d12c5708ad947/Screen-Shot-2023-01-19-at-1.55.17-PM.png" data-mid="172015137" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/99c18ec5dc7c887f39692f6f3b5abad49bac09ab9a42039c098d12c5708ad947/Screen-Shot-2023-01-19-at-1.55.17-PM.png" /> <img width="1922" height="2070" width_o="1922" height_o="2070" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/75739d08aa01de93fe8c0f59eae18be51d7c88e111f3549a1d0bd8ac67201b46/Screen-Shot-2023-01-19-at-1.56.53-PM.png" data-mid="172015153" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/75739d08aa01de93fe8c0f59eae18be51d7c88e111f3549a1d0bd8ac67201b46/Screen-Shot-2023-01-19-at-1.56.53-PM.png" /> (left): Altered site; (right): Original site <img width="1808" height="1022" width_o="1808" height_o="1022" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/46b245c41c4ccfe35c369a3f090796997ca1468255ed0c02ba8d3e3ddd8bbeab/Screen-Shot-2023-03-26-at-11.50.39-PM.png" data-mid="173179361" border="0" data-scale="73" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/46b245c41c4ccfe35c369a3f090796997ca1468255ed0c02ba8d3e3ddd8bbeab/Screen-Shot-2023-03-26-at-11.50.39-PM.png" />*Winnie-the-Pooh was famously being soft-banned in China after Xi was memed into Pooh in 2017. There are several famous cases of people and companies got into serious troubled after poking this harmelss joke. It is unclear to me why, as Pooh is a well-loved character, and Xi wants to be loved, too. <img width="400" height="297" width_o="400" height_o="297" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3a8d22b18e3ddeaf35004fe461bc1b830dcb049218579a3306132c12bee82b8f/photo_2023-03-26-23.41.58.jpeg" data-mid="173179044" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/3a8d22b18e3ddeaf35004fe461bc1b830dcb049218579a3306132c12bee82b8f/photo_2023-03-26-23.41.58.jpeg" /> <img width="462" height="534" width_o="462" height_o="534" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b0a1c5b301137733e0a5cf077664fa4785ecd502485072fea1ff9c8a6f224f35/ezgif.com-video-to-gif.gif" data-mid="172014910" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/462/i/b0a1c5b301137733e0a5cf077664fa4785ecd502485072fea1ff9c8a6f224f35/ezgif.com-video-to-gif.gif" /> The creation and user interaction with this project brought me great amusement. It's curious how many Chinese government sites remain unencrypted, particularly when I discovered a 2014 article on one such site extolling the virtues of encryption. The situation remains a mystery. https://jjjcho.com/and-Me-2017-2024 Sun, 26 Nov 2023 21:48:48 +0000 Jaye TC Cho 卓均 https://jjjcho.com/and-Me-2017-2024 &nbsp;My Love &amp; Hate with 卍 我與卍的愛恨糾葛 &nbsp;2017-2024&nbsp;<img width="288" height="370" width_o="288" height_o="370" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/68bf13fb07ae1379fcb52e20a87d3f0d1f11b0377a1c92107593a576d89cf410/lotus.png" data-mid="197878610" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/288/i/68bf13fb07ae1379fcb52e20a87d3f0d1f11b0377a1c92107593a576d89cf410/lotus.png" /> In December 2016, my mother's passing initiated a year-long Taoist-Buddhist funeral.&nbsp; For the initial 100 days, all women in the household were confined to an unending cycle of folding paper lotuses and reciting the Heart Sutra, burdened by long hours and stringent rituals prescribed by the daoshi. Amid this labor, the omnipresent symbol "卍" etched itself into our lives, adorning our scriptures, paper for the lotuses, and the very hall where we knelt in remembrance and duty. 在2016年12月，我的母親去世，開啟了一場長達一年的道教佛教葬禮。 因為父親背後大家族的傳統，家中所有女性被要求在不斷折疊紙荷花和誦念《心經》的循環中，同時間大家須負擔著由道士嚴格規定的長時間和嚴格的念經儀式。在這無止盡的勞動之中，佛教符號"卍"無所不在地刻畫在我們的生活每個角落中，裝飾我們的經文、荷花用的紙張，以及我們跪在紀念和履行義務的大廳裡。 Forced to fold paper lotuses&nbsp;(2016-2017) <img width="768" height="1024" width_o="768" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1e5f672d8e31bcb2da354dd62535b0415ee76d958ca9e776c323b17aab06ffb7/B9EBD388-0375-4EA7-9AFF-05FA6EDB7945_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="197878599" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/768/i/1e5f672d8e31bcb2da354dd62535b0415ee76d958ca9e776c323b17aab06ffb7/B9EBD388-0375-4EA7-9AFF-05FA6EDB7945_1_105_c.jpeg" /> <img width="768" height="1024" width_o="768" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/70e3534f882e010ac66a21c06d8e5f3e07720a713cc60c990f3fd3b1893a392a/8A586B7A-CCFE-47A6-BB7D-FB678FECE75A_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="197878602" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/768/i/70e3534f882e010ac66a21c06d8e5f3e07720a713cc60c990f3fd3b1893a392a/8A586B7A-CCFE-47A6-BB7D-FB678FECE75A_1_105_c.jpeg" /> <img width="768" height="1024" width_o="768" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d7d915b57848cb65d0495bdf6586f9b7c613bab236438dc76680b04086151a11/76C7104C-7D90-4900-AD67-C7C0955304FC_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="197878600" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/768/i/d7d915b57848cb65d0495bdf6586f9b7c613bab236438dc76680b04086151a11/76C7104C-7D90-4900-AD67-C7C0955304FC_1_105_c.jpeg" /> <img width="1024" height="768" width_o="1024" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ea8d0ebffd964335c63af7288e1bb9d13c7e20c96fca710d950f3762687f86f2/D1F61450-5B7B-4EEC-A930-AC21DC0A556A_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="197878604" border="0" data-scale="68" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ea8d0ebffd964335c63af7288e1bb9d13c7e20c96fca710d950f3762687f86f2/D1F61450-5B7B-4EEC-A930-AC21DC0A556A_1_105_c.jpeg" /> <img width="1024" height="768" width_o="1024" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b968346af5adc7af6bac9a36fbae6528ad5d6b07c1f2c07bc4f1d860bc0eb6b3/875C6B74-E706-4F46-BFE1-90517F679183_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="197878601" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b968346af5adc7af6bac9a36fbae6528ad5d6b07c1f2c07bc4f1d860bc0eb6b3/875C6B74-E706-4F46-BFE1-90517F679183_1_105_c.jpeg" /> <img width="1024" height="768" width_o="1024" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/85c327a3806ad83a984e05f2256b21d17d28193402be528d546776048f6a5a0f/7B8F6304-BAF0-4F93-931B-7D9AEB7DD6D1_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="197878603" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/85c327a3806ad83a984e05f2256b21d17d28193402be528d546776048f6a5a0f/7B8F6304-BAF0-4F93-931B-7D9AEB7DD6D1_1_105_c.jpeg" /> In the wake of the ceremonial obligations (2017-2018), the act of folding lotuses morphed into an involuntary personal ritual, a haunting refrain I couldn't escape. Secluded within my Chicago studio, I found myself instinctively folding, sketching symbols reminiscent of the lotus papers, wrestling with the ambiguity of my connection to these remnants of tradition.在儀式性的義務結束後（2017年至2018年），折疊荷花的行為演變成一種不由自主的個人儀式，一種我無法逃避的憂鬱反覆。在芝加哥的工作室裡，我孤立無援地發現自己本能地折疊，描繪出讓我想起荷花紙的符號，掙扎於我與這些傳統遺留物之間的模糊聯繫。 <img width="5472" height="3648" width_o="5472" height_o="3648" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9ad3c5c578f26ba31b10ab605e0932f9d2c1f9137cf821ef7185888a05255a26/IMG_6995.JPG" data-mid="197878606" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9ad3c5c578f26ba31b10ab605e0932f9d2c1f9137cf821ef7185888a05255a26/IMG_6995.JPG" /> <img width="1024" height="768" width_o="1024" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/571c223cf3194a39996b2f243cdf08ff336942577824d0ebfa4c0f7b7405af0b/F75829D6-7945-416E-A023-3C9A98D090B5_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="197878605" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/571c223cf3194a39996b2f243cdf08ff336942577824d0ebfa4c0f7b7405af0b/F75829D6-7945-416E-A023-3C9A98D090B5_1_105_c.jpeg" /> A Year Since Then (2017-2018) In response, I crafted a video, a testament to my struggle. The symbol "卍" served as a harsh reminder of familial sexism, the poignant loss of my mother, and my own yearning for spiritual guidance.作為回應，我製作了一段影片作為我奮鬥的見證。在家鄉的遠方，"卍"成為對家庭性別歧視的殘酷提醒，對失去母親深刻的痛，以及我對心靈歸屬之渴望的象徵。 <img width="3456" height="2234" width_o="3456" height_o="2234" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/56d0cf9ff756b4e2e7151586e5552dd4d4fe2519fef86eb3ae7509c6ce0d0e15/Screenshot-2023-04-12-at-12.37.09-AM.png" data-mid="197878612" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/56d0cf9ff756b4e2e7151586e5552dd4d4fe2519fef86eb3ae7509c6ce0d0e15/Screenshot-2023-04-12-at-12.37.09-AM.png" /> Seeing the “卍” being cancelled (2018-2019) I relocated to Japan for seven months amidst Tokyo's frenzied preparation for the 2020 Olympics. A contentious debate caught my attention - the proposed removal of all “卍” symbols from Buddhist temple maps, prompted by Western tourist complaints. My emotions were nebulous, my relationship with the symbol itself complicated, leaving me unsure whether to champion its preservation.憤怒與悲傷之餘，我對“卍”竟也開始有了同情心，甚至替它感到抱不平。2018-2019年間，我在東京住了七個月。當時正值全日本為2020年奧運會做熱血準備的時期。晚間日本電視台上一場激烈的辯論引起了我的注意：因為眾多歐美遊客投訴日本寺廟中的卍字符號，認為這跟當年希特勒使用的納粹符號太具關聯性，日本國內提議乾脆將所有佛教相關的“卍”符號給移除。我當下的想法很複雜，正如同我與這個符號的愛恨關係。 <img width="1252" height="1054" width_o="1252" height_o="1054" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ad9c3910f1c926f7084110f87dcc9f3942f1ebb03067d0d094a3bf2ed403ef3d/Screenshot-2023-04-12-at-12.17.05-AM.png" data-mid="197878607" border="0" data-scale="34" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ad9c3910f1c926f7084110f87dcc9f3942f1ebb03067d0d094a3bf2ed403ef3d/Screenshot-2023-04-12-at-12.17.05-AM.png" />&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<img width="1280" height="853" width_o="1280" height_o="853" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cf23aa6c0b0384f358be09aaad686abbdbd93c82a008649a55d4809f3cc00680/photo_2022-10-21-09.54.24.jpeg" data-mid="197878613" border="0" data-scale="43" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cf23aa6c0b0384f358be09aaad686abbdbd93c82a008649a55d4809f3cc00680/photo_2022-10-21-09.54.24.jpeg" /> Defending the “卍”? Perhaps... (2019) <img width="768" height="1024" width_o="768" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/62594f9063972d08cf13b48900e2b950d15ae44ffcc0a11db7213e4392ad85cb/B053B185-5BCF-4349-8B51-32921197EE5F_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="197878608" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/768/i/62594f9063972d08cf13b48900e2b950d15ae44ffcc0a11db7213e4392ad85cb/B053B185-5BCF-4349-8B51-32921197EE5F_1_105_c.jpeg" /> <img width="960" height="1280" width_o="960" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4c2de36f3d6ca83e5d6fb5f38231fca4fbbdb8f197fa2db71587b0377392a689/shrine.jpg" data-mid="197878611" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/4c2de36f3d6ca83e5d6fb5f38231fca4fbbdb8f197fa2db71587b0377392a689/shrine.jpg" /> In truth, I grappled with my intentions. Was I defending the symbol or was this another echo of my mother's passing? I couldn't escape the knowledge that Western gaze was fixated solely on the symbol, potentially reducing my culture to a mere icon. This exploitation gnawed at me, yet, I couldn't help but consider it a form of retribution against a culture that had, in its own way, inflicted pain upon me.離開日本後，我在芝加哥繼續著對於卍字符號的思考。 事實上，我與自己的意圖苦苦掙扎。當我想在西方語境下捍衛卍字符號時，我是否產生移情作用，純粹是因為它讓我聯想到了我逝世的母親？與此同時，我無法接受「西方凝視」僅僅集中在這個符號上的納粹關聯，片面決定了其他文化中該被捨去的價值。這種利用令我感到痛心，然而，與此同時，我也不禁開始考慮這是否是對一個曾在某種程度上給我帶來痛苦的文化的一種報復。。。我已經不知道我在胡言亂語什麼了，但這也恰恰體現我對這符號及其複雜的感受。 p5 Project: Paper Lotuses (2020) I breathed life into paper lotuses, allowing them to float and fade as they would in the symbolic post-burning ritual. Accompanied by a monologue, a funeral scene soundtrack from a film I saw years ago, the project becomes a moving homage to my mother’s year-long funeral. <img width="600" height="317" width_o="600" height_o="317" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/61eb280a118344db3e94fce421f3c4267a69b8a28bf8ae2e37817a22fa4b6b43/ezgif.com-video-to-gif-3.gif" data-mid="197878597" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/600/i/61eb280a118344db3e94fce421f3c4267a69b8a28bf8ae2e37817a22fa4b6b43/ezgif.com-video-to-gif-3.gif" />&nbsp;https://editor.p5js.org/jjjcho/full/1lJL-zENu&nbsp;(with sound from 2016 Movie Mr.Church)Interactive Website Project: A Simple Poll (2022) I embarked on a research project, delving into the global semiotic discourse surrounding the swastika symbol. The culmination of this inquiry was an online poll. The poll aims to engender a public consensus on the boundaries of acceptance in our society. Collectively, all participants will help decide where the global society as a whole draws a line on the appropriate usage of the swastika symbol. Of course, a yes-no poll comes with a lot of bias. However, is it not how our society makes decisions on what to be canceled and what not nowadays?Participants after the poll may be surprised to discover that all options they just deemed "inappropriate" are propoer used of the symbol in existing cultures, some for hundreds or even thousands of years, despite having no connection to Nazism. Yet they still face cancellation. However, we should also not ignore that there are still many neo-Nazis in the world, hence the sensitivity towards the swastika symbol is understandable. I created this work not to advocate for a specific viewpoint on whether the none-Nazi swastika symbols should be completely removed in the world, but simply to encourage mutual learning and respect on all sides through this controversial poll. 當我開始研究交互藝術時，我同時持續了我對於卍字符號的東西方文化霸權研究。我製作了一個研究型作品，深入探討全球關於卐符號的符號學討論。這一探究的結果是一個在線投票。這次投票旨在促成公眾對我們社會接受度界限的共識。根據傳統民主多數決，所有參與者將共同決定全球社會在卐符號適當使用方面的界線。當然，特意製作為是非題的投票方式存在著許多偏見。然而，這不正是我們現今社會決定什麼該被取消、什麼不應被取消的方式嗎？投票結束後的參與者也許會驚訝的發現，他們剛剛認為「不合適」的許多選項，全都是現存文化中，存在數百年甚至千年的卍字符號。即使他們大部分跟納粹完全沒有關係，但也都面臨了「被取消」。然而，我們同時也不該去忽略，線下的西方世界仍然存在著許多新納粹人士，因此對於卍字符號的敏感是可以理解的。我做這件藝術品並不是為了就卍字符號是否該被徹底移除來支持特一觀點，我只是希望不管是哪一方都可以透過這場令人「不適的」投票，互相得到學習和尊重。 <img width="402" height="231" width_o="402" height_o="231" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6955206af217d276cc2bf8b1c7a5fc853b0d1a1e0ffda0c28db2b4d6aba51245/ezgif.com-resize-6.gif" data-mid="197879036" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/402/i/6955206af217d276cc2bf8b1c7a5fc853b0d1a1e0ffda0c28db2b4d6aba51245/ezgif.com-resize-6.gif" /> Poll Site: https://a-simple-poll.glitch.me/ https://jjjcho.com/still-figuring-out-what-all-of-this-means-2021 Fri, 17 Mar 2023 07:52:16 +0000 Jaye TC Cho 卓均 https://jjjcho.com/still-figuring-out-what-all-of-this-means-2021 attempts... 2021-now Currently playing with TouchDesigner/ Unity/ Blender/ Arduino, hoping to get some inspiration out of the tools one day. Over&nbsp;the past decade, I’ve tried many softwares and tech stuff...you name it: Cinema 4D, Maya, Fusion, Javascript, After Effects...but I often escape after making just one project. voice activated game utilizing teachable machine (2023) For example, if you yell out “Taiwan independence” or “June 4”, the machine detect and you get a minus point. If you say “I love China” or “Xi is the best” you gain point. This project was made feeling supressed while spending a summer in Shanghai, China. And was inspired by the few internet westeren celeberities in China, who are famous of yelling out pro-China’s Community Party with passion.&nbsp; You have 3 points to lose or to win, if you win, you become a celebrated China Superman, if you lost, you get arrested in South Park style.&nbsp; <img width="600" height="400" width_o="600" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3d00eb0c4d1ed54babdcfc79bc76a3720ced08ce77229f1f37ac042e4b8858d2/ezgif.com-optimize-1.gif" data-mid="191728797" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/600/i/3d00eb0c4d1ed54babdcfc79bc76a3720ced08ce77229f1f37ac042e4b8858d2/ezgif.com-optimize-1.gif" /> Notion page with link to game: https://bouncy-papaya-d49.notion.site/The-Patriot-Machine-db1e2594e3064c1b9ccbb3980a0336e5 p5.js game: Be The King Roach (2022) A king roach flied into my NYC pre-war apartment in July 2022, which scared the shit out of me. This is a game dedicated to it.&nbsp; <img width="600" height="479" width_o="600" height_o="479" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ddea5170e7779bcf0688364aa7a995f20113b620e66bbd92a32454431e707cf2/ezgif.com-video-to-gif-2.gif" data-mid="172021522" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/600/i/ddea5170e7779bcf0688364aa7a995f20113b620e66bbd92a32454431e707cf2/ezgif.com-video-to-gif-2.gif" />https://editor.p5js.org/jjjcho92/full/6Ob5r1ePY (with sound and bunch of bugs) <img width="1280" height="960" width_o="1280" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/184a687b3fe328baf49a0c00c74857f2433d85fa0f86a7709cbcfee5ce203929/photo_2022-08-11-01.22.55.jpeg" data-mid="172020466" border="0" data-scale="73" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/184a687b3fe328baf49a0c00c74857f2433d85fa0f86a7709cbcfee5ce203929/photo_2022-08-11-01.22.55.jpeg" /> version with physical computing using Arduino https://editor.p5js.org/jjjcho92/sketches/6Ob5r1ePY Something made in Maya (2021) Made a music video in Maya dedicated to 9m88’s song.&nbsp; <img width="600" height="328" width_o="600" height_o="328" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5b88dbd14703f07bf97deb2b46c140904acede463d439e3142a4a79a64014007/ezgif.com-video-to-gif-4.gif" data-mid="176849915" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/600/i/5b88dbd14703f07bf97deb2b46c140904acede463d439e3142a4a79a64014007/ezgif.com-video-to-gif-4.gif" /> https://jjjcho.com/I-m-Sorry-2021 Fri, 17 Mar 2023 06:06:46 +0000 Jaye TC Cho 卓均 https://jjjcho.com/I-m-Sorry-2021 I’m Sorry 2021 <img width="728" height="408" width_o="728" height_o="408" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b3da9bec75ba5e512105787cec5475dae15d9a9aa10eeebabec406a634eeccd5/oOQeCrT---Imgur.gif" data-mid="172013576" border="0" data-scale="46" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/728/i/b3da9bec75ba5e512105787cec5475dae15d9a9aa10eeebabec406a634eeccd5/oOQeCrT---Imgur.gif" /> I’ve been trying to say less sorry to people. Sometimes I even piss people off because I say sorry way too often. I get it, it can be pretty annoying. But, ugh, this is hard to change. Has a lot to do with how one is raised, you know? Trashy 20 seconds video documentation <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/702b52eb9c655239484c79da0443d3d4f8c23cf138e03e3dcc5116a9ff723bfc/darken-1.jpeg" data-mid="172335786" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/702b52eb9c655239484c79da0443d3d4f8c23cf138e03e3dcc5116a9ff723bfc/darken-1.jpeg" /> <img width="1280" height="1280" width_o="1280" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3dc0bc543fe170b7d8b853761c56d5bd77e2c9eb81c8f0c4966d899ec9f4874c/photo_2021-04-20-19.08.16.jpeg" data-mid="172335838" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3dc0bc543fe170b7d8b853761c56d5bd77e2c9eb81c8f0c4966d899ec9f4874c/photo_2021-04-20-19.08.16.jpeg" /> <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b800a7926d6b3df74ca98b6a3a8afd63cc2344559f3e990ea1464cf5a7a60fb1/Mid2021_critique-38-1.jpeg" data-mid="172335880" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b800a7926d6b3df74ca98b6a3a8afd63cc2344559f3e990ea1464cf5a7a60fb1/Mid2021_critique-38-1.jpeg" /> <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e3570cd121c3fc0567e9a71b04cbfb765c0a6501fe9a8980ab58ebdf092a5a73/Mid2021_critique-36.jpeg" data-mid="172335913" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e3570cd121c3fc0567e9a71b04cbfb765c0a6501fe9a8980ab58ebdf092a5a73/Mid2021_critique-36.jpeg" /> The installation was built inside a used-to-be-precious, prime location studio space. Possibly the most expensive artist studio one can ever get in Chicago. It was given to the full-ride scholarship MFA student in Painting department of the year. However, due to the strict visitor policy because of COVID, studio spaces like this one were vacant all-year long in the almighty Painting Department. They were all just sitting there waiting for me to invade.&nbsp;A lot of the vibe in this installation was influenced by how I felt being in a ghosted (painting) community in 2020/21, trying to make art, while the world was burning down. I was constantly feeling sorry, to my painting, to the world, to the people believing in me, and to myself.The installation was made with found objects (my old exercise paintings, videos, and trash from the community trashcan...etc). The installation also came with "Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend Podcast" playing on loop in the background, which was what I usually put on while working at the studio alone overnight. &nbsp;