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DATA PA RKS : O S LO
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DATAPA RK S : O S L O Fall 2016 with J. Al Shdaifat, G. Karagoz, I. Michaelides Design III: Senior Travel Studio Barnard + Columbia Department of Architecture Critic: Karen Fairbanks
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Dataparks: Oslo
PARKS: OSLO
AGOZ / S. CHOE / I. MICHAELIDES
DATAPARKS: OSLO J. AL SHDAIFAT / G. KARAGOZ / S. CHOE / I. MICHAELIDES
above ground data server cooling
ground level data server cooling
underground data server cooling
Dataparks: Oslo
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Dataparks: Oslo
exterior render of public media library
Dataparks: Oslo
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~90,000 people commute a day Different Parking Spaces in the cit center
DATAPARKS: OSLO is an infrastructural and architectural proposal to data center developers that incentivizes the creation of public spaces in data centers, to be housed in soon-to-be obsolete parking and automobile facilities in Oslo’s city center. Norway has become a popular site for electricity-guzzling data centers as a result of its hydropowered grid, inviting 4 an influx of capital development. The public is missing from this exchange. Datapark provides a set of criteria to data center developers that must be fulfilled in order to build in Oslo. For every 10,000 square feet of server space built, 3,000 square feet of public space are required.
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gis mapping of automobile infrastructure typologies in oslo’s city center
section drawing of above ground public media library
former parking garage ramp system and server-heated recreation area
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Dataparks: Oslo
public seating and open air lookout to street
The excess heat emitted from the data servers, typically very energy-costly to cool, will be redirected to benefit the various public facilities, three prototypes of which are proposed here. A parking garage becomes a public media center, a set of parking lots becomes a marketplace and recreational area, underground highway tunnels become swimming pools and an aquarium.
section of community marketplace and recreational landscape, ground level. passive earth cooling system
community marketplace, previously parking lots. marketplace entrance with view of play area and marina
community marketplace, previously parking lots. walkable landscape above market, view of skatepark
section of swimming zones, underground. ocean water cools servers, the resulting warm water used in pools
swimming zone, previously highway tunnel. pools of different depths, skylights bringing in light from city surface
Dataparks: Oslo
swimming zone, previously highway tunnel. winding walking paths above lazy river
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TRUTH P I EC ES Jan 18 2019 12 Track Album / 3 Videos Record Label: Business Casual
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Truth Pieces
workflow documentation
Tracklist 01 – Night Slay 02 – Silent Energy feat. Sluurpee 03 – Samplo feat. Trill Mah 04 – Serious Funhouse Reality 05 – Birthmark feat. Kythira 06 – Contemporary Ecology 07 – Real Thrill 08 – Catalano feat. Julius Metal 09 – Copper 10 – Tenor Crystal 11 – 25 Legs feat. Perla Haney-Jardine 12 – Aiko’s Theme
Link to album + videos https://soundcloud.com/ brokenspear/sets/truthpieces/sEKy6u
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TRUTH PIECES, a worldbuilding collage album of 12 genre-spanning productions featuring a future pop diva, a Daughtry-esque look into “My So Called Life”, new age anime soundtracks, industrial punk/shoegaze fantasies and a Carly Rae/Bieber sampled hip-hop burner. Released by eclectic electronic cassette label Business Casual.
Press space-ship / Premiere: Broken Spear reveals “Silent Energy” feat. Sluurpee aqnb / Single + Video Premiere: “25 Legs feat. Perla HaneyJardine” (January 24) Credits Mixed by Sahil Ansari and Broken Spear Artwork by Galen Tipton and Seb Choe
Over the course of two years, TRUTH PIECES brought together 16 collaborators (vocalists, 3D artists, vocalists, audio engineers) to craft a sequel to TRUE (Pedicure Records, 2016) described by Seattle Weekly as a “hyper-aggressive music salad... stretched to the point of abstraction or made into a kind of overwhelming pointillism.”
stills from “25 legs feat. perla haney-jardine”
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stills from “catalano feat. julius metal”
Truth Pieces
stills from “copper”
track art for truth pieces
Truth Pieces
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O N | BEI NG REA D Nov 2018 2 visual art spreads Printed by Shelf-Shelf, Chicago-based journal Color Risograph, 6.75x9 inches
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On | Being Read
ON | BEING READ, two spreads of visual propaganda for an anthology of critical writing and art on queer optics and legibility. Topics investigated: pinkwashing, Non-Player Characters, advertising, dissident humor. Premiered at 2018 Chicago Art Book Fair. The following spreads for On | Being Read exaggerate my dark amusement and frustration with the entrepreneurial, jester-like characters that I have felt pressured to adopt when advocating for queer rights in my professional work.
images of shelf shelf table at chicago art book fair, book photos
On | Being Read
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3D Sketches
3D Sketches
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S TA L L ED ! Summer 2017-Present Design-Research Initiative Joel Sanders Architect, New York
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Stalled!
STALLED!, a design-research project for the creation of inclusive restroom prototypes which I have direct for Joel Sanders Architect. Compiling 3 years of work into Stalled! Online, an open-access web resource in addition to producing Stalled! The Video, an award-winning short film distributed widely in design press. Since Summer 2017, I have worked closely with Joel Sanders, Principal of JSA (Joel Sanders Architect) and Professor at Yale School of Architecture, on directing the Stalled! initiative. This has involved the coordination of architectural design prototypes, campus workshops, publications, fundraising and relationships with institutional partners.
screenshot of vr 360 rendering of inclusive airport restroom prototype, design/direction by choe
Stalled!
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Selected Stalled! CV (All coordinated under Choe)
Awards
Workshops
2018 Architect’s Newspaper Best of Design Awards 2018 AIA Film Challenge, Finalist 2018 AIA Innovation Awards, Honorable Mention
Vassar College. May 7, 2018. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cambridge, MA. October 4, 2017. Society for College and University Planning. July 10, 2017.
Grants
Writings
New York State Council on the Arts, Independent Projects Grant, August 2018 BW Bastian Foundation Grant, May 2018 AIA Arthur W. Brunner Grant for Architectural Research, April 2018 Yale Anonymous Alumni Grant, March 2018
Sanders, Joel. “Noncompliant Bodies, Accommodating Space.” Urban Omnibus. March 29, 2018.
Conferences “The Sexological Floorplan.” UC Davis. Davis, CA. April 25, 2018. “Noncompliant Bodies: Social Equity and Public Space.” Yale University. New Haven, CT. April 6, 2018. “Stalled! Symposium.” University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI. February 8, 2018.
Lectures “Stalled! Online Launch.” 2018 AIA Conference on Architecture. June 21, 2018. “Equity X Design Mappy Hour.” Center for Architecture. June 18, 2018. Pratt Institute. New York, NY. April 10, 2018. University of Virginia. Charlottesville, VA. March 19, 2018. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cambridge, MA. October 3, 2017. New York University. New York, NY. September 27 2017.
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Sanders, Joel. “From Stud to Stalled! Architecture in Transition.” Log Journal. Issue 41. Anyone Corporation. New York: November 15, 2017.
Press Howarth, Dan. “Stalled! initiative provides open-source prototypes for inclusive public restrooms.” Dezeen. New York: June 21, 2018. Metropolis Editors. “VIDEO: Why GenderNeutral Bathrooms Matter.” Metropolis Magazine. New York: May 22, 2018. Kwun, Aileen. “How Design Could Save the Gendered Bathroom Debate.” Architectural Digest. New York: February 20, 2018. Spula, Ian. “An Unexpected Ally of GenderNeutral Restrooms: Building Codes.” Architect Magazine. New York: September 30 2017.
Stalled!
launch of stalled! online at 2018 aia conference on architecture with founding stalled! members joel sanders, susan stryker
photo of restrooms panel at noncompliant bodies: social equity and public space - conference organized by choe hosted by yale school of architecture
screenshot of history-theory essay on project website designed by choe
still from stalled! the video, gender binary motion graphics designed under direction of choe
Stalled!
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R I K ERS I S L A ND E D U CAT I O N P RO GRA M Winter 2015 - Summer 2017 Creative education program for detained youth Center for Justice, Columbia University School of Social Work
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Rikers Island
neighborhood site model from building justice studio
freestyle circle activity from beats, rhymes and justice
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RIKERS ISLAND EDUCATION PROJECT, bringing restorative justice in the form of creative arts classes to detained young men at the Rikers Island penal colony in Queens, New York. Hip-Hop Music Production and Neighborhood Planning. Involvement since the January 2015 inception of the Columbia University Center for Justice’s Rikers Island Education Project with the “Beats, Rhymes and Justice” program. The hip-hop-oriented program was a response to New York City’s banning of solitary confinement for youth at Rikers Island. Encouraged by the positive results of sharing my music production experience with a group of incarcerated young men empowered to tell their own narratives through hiphop, I proposed a new program centered on architecture and social justice. “Building Justice”, a collaboration with Leah Meisterlin (Columbia GSAPP Urban Planning), Todd Rouhe (common-room), students from Laura Kurgan’s (Center for Spatial Research) #CLOSERIKERS studio, “Building Justice” centers on hands-on, collective decisionmaking, neighborhood design and modelmaking.
ipad production studio in beats, rhymes and justice
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Rikers Island
model documentation by emily brockenbrough
beats, rhymes and justice facilitators recording backup vocals
facilitators outside rikers island youth facility on day of celebration/student performances for their families
department of justice approved materials for building justice studio course
methods of material manipulation explored by students during building justice studio course
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M AD D ER MOV I E Spring 2017 Short film + research paper Published by Journal of Art Criticism (Vol. I, 2017) Carried at McNally Jackson, Printed Matter, Pioneer Works
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Madder Movie
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MADDER MOVIE is an anthropological film essay that investigates the phenomenon of “moe”, or falling in love with Japanese virtual characters. Madder Movie features a blend of motion graphics, “video painting”, and 3D renderings, and is accompanied by a research paper on the same topic.
Link to film + paper
https://journalofartcriticism. wordpress.com/2017/05/12/ madder-movie-anime-and-moe-incontemporary-japan/
Madder Movie operates both as an inquiry into a contemporary anthropological phenomenon and as a contribution to the otaku tradition of making “mad movies” (fan-made and circulated video edits of anime television and video games.) The film and essay take media theorist Hiroki Azuma’s idea of the otaku as a “database animal” as a point of departure to dive into the moe in Japan as a sociopolitically complex phenomenon deserving of more nuanced analysis than its popular conception as anti-social behavior or sexual deviance, using the media techniques of the otaku himself to understand the otaku.
delivering guest lecture on madder movie to columbia university’s anthropology department, 2018
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Madder Movie
working with painter danielle stolz to build a library of greenscreen paintbrush gestures for alpha channel
examination of virtual pop idol hatsune miku’s collectibles
3D rendered “moe gallery” for immersive consumption
montage of disembodied anime ASMR YouTubers
video painting of moe triggers and crying japanese men
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U NI TY PA RK June 2017 - Sep 2018 Community-Driven Park Project Fort Plain, NY Mohawk Valley Collective
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Unity Park
axonometric of proposed park scheme
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UNITY PARK is a new initiative of the Mohawk Valley Collective. Unity Park engages the community of Fort Plain, NY to participate in the design and construction of an outdoor communal space. The park will include a community garden, a free-exchange library and pavilion for outdoor concerts and film screenings.
unity park designers choe and emily brockenbrough at 2018 barnard + columbia architecture alumni exhibition
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Unity Park
Through social media outreach and encouraged collaboration, Unity Park is being built in phases through action weekends where experienced Fort Plain citizens share their skills with others who come out to volunteer, socialize, or just want to say what’s up. The park will extend programming outward from the adjacent cultural center, Unity Hall, the formerly derelict church reclaimed by the historic preservation non-profit.
images from mohawk valley collective instagram, where volunteer days are documented and publicized
erspective of proposed park scheme
Unity Park
VOI D NETWO RK Spring 2017 Studio Project Barnard + Columbia Department of Architecture Critic: Brad Samuels, SITU
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Void Network
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Void Network
detail photo of model
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VOID NETWORK is a physical and digital model investigating spatial relationships derived from four selected keywords: structure, screen, search, listen. Developed through a process of material experimentation and iterative model making, Void Network presents three primary types of spatial relationships: winding pathways and contours, partial enclosures and overhangs, and deep cavernous voids. Central to the project is the idea of circulating through an alien landscape and being surprised by new spaces, routes, and views along the way. Void Network imagines itself not as a building, but as an archaeological core sample, a small piece of a world where this network is infinitely repeated and modulated.
typology 1: winding pathways and con
Void Network
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typology 2: partial enclosures and overhangs
longitudinal section of model
typology 3: deep cavernous voids
plan section of model
Void Network
T H E P R INC E O F L OVE Fall 2016 ‘Feature-length surveillance film Premiered by Editorial Mag
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The Prince of Love
Park Visitors Center and Laboratory
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THE PRINCE OF LOVE is a featurelength experimental documentary. The film intimately follows two lovers in Seattle over the span of fourteen months, blurring the line between surveillance and performance. Soundtracked by manipulated pop music, the film acknowledges and fractures the romantic space between the real life couple and 8mm tape camcorder. (words by Whitney Mallett, Editorial Mag) “Choe captures the beauty of the Pacific Northwest as well as a certain post-high school angst. Just like Jeff and Erica are not quite teens but not quite grownups, the film is not exactly fiction or documentary. The flatness of the melodramatic acting in certain scenes is unsettlingly juxtaposed with the unfakable intimacy of others. Throughout, conventions and expectations are pandered to and then turned inside out. A few times, Jeff breaks the fourth wall. At one point, he’s walking along the train tracks in a leather jacket with a guitar case in hand, talking to Choe behind the camera, “I wish you had done this film with preppy high school kids, dressed them up, and have them walk down the train tracks. Made some edgy teen flick.” Choe answers without missing a beat, “That’s what I did.”
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The Prince of Love
film stills
The Prince of Love
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POP 50 Summer 2018 Queer Happening East Williamsburg, NY
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Pop 50
Link to event archive video https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=S7G3IZnzXxs
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POP 50 was a queer warehouse dance event organized in Summer 2018. Pop 50 was conceptualized as a salve for the void I noted in New York’s nightlife scene for queer folk looking to congregate around euphoric synthesizers and manipulated femme vocals, a community that thrived on the internet, but lacked dedicated spaces and gatherings. I worked with five DJs/performers, three hosts, and the East Williamsburg studio collective Soft Surplus to plan Pop 50. In addition to coordinating the lineup, AV tech, promotional flyer, production of visuals, refreshments, event documentation and venue design, I contributed a DJ set as Broken Spear and drag performance as Agatha Claw. The warehouse was filled to capacity. Pop 50 was free.
event flyer / digital RSVP token for event
stills from visuals projected during event
stills from 8mm tape documentation of event
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Pop 50
low megapixel digital snapshots of event
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