Taeyoon Choi, the Artistic Director of Interweaving Poetic Code , is a renowned educator, writer, artist and activist. Through his multifaceted practices of computation, he critically examines the codes of conduct of operation and the coded system embedded in the technology surrounding us whilst exploring alternative ways of shaping an inclusive society with the idea of care.
Even though Choi’s past practices have not directly engaged with textile(s), CHAT, as an art centre of textile industrial heritage, invited him because of the irrefutable linkage between textile technology and computation, in particular, coding. In Interweaving Poetic Code , however, Choi’s focus extends especially to the works by artists who incorporate the coding system into textile(s) and clothing for care, inclusivity, open dialogue and unlearning.
In this Spring Programme, a series of Choi’s multiple practices, ranging from texts to textual drawings, paintings, documentation of his past performance pieces and his first knit
