User:Youjung/T2 Assessment

Why XPUB?

Before XPUB, I worked as a brand and visual designer for premium grocery delivery platform. It was one of the domains that I wanted to work for because I loved browsing through the feed of delicious foods. However, working in the company made me realize that behind the endless feed there are group of people constantly producing content. I was making a lot of things public but at the same time nothing, as they are repetitive and have less time for reflection.

I liked the idea of working on a domain making something interactive through the internet. Below are the things that I wanted to gain from XPUB:

• Make interactive projects using code

• Learn how to make things collectively
• Gain critical perspectives towards technology

What did you make?

Overview

Type	Count	Name
Website	3	Cooking Spam e-mails, A mazing machines, Our Digital Home
Interactive Installation	2	A story in a story in a story, Poetry Generater at CCU
Zine	3	A mazing machines, Tangled Thoughts, Practice and Scalability
Workshop	1	Our Digital Home
Radio Show	2	Radio Ghost, Cyber Feminism

October 2025
Python Poetry

Poetry Generator

Extending from Fermenting the Earth workshop at iMAL, part of the participants gathered to make a growing poetry run by the electricity derived from the mud batteries we made. People interacting with the generator chooses different actions: WAIT, FERMENT, GAZE, HEAR or SNIFF and based on this action a different python script is executed. The input texts are conversations and texts we read during the workshop and the script transforms them into phrases of poems. The poems were printed by a receipt printer.

Reflection: I got the initial idea from text adventure games and Eliza. I liked that audience can have short conversations with plants. This project sparked me to explore interaction not only through the screen but also tangible beings(plants and printers).

October 2025
Python, Website

Cooking Spam Emails

For the first radio show on writing machines, I split the spam email from ABN AMRO into phrases and made a python script that structure it into different contexts using random function. The email refreshes every 10 seconds and create a non-sense email.

Reflection: I was inspired by Nick Montfort's poetry. Similarly to what I did in Poetry generator, it was fascinating to see how a python script can create different meaning and context and how it can be differently interpreted by the reader.

November 2025
Python, Game, Pen Plotter

A story in a story in a story

Interactive narrative that lets you explore, gather and plot. Wander around in the virtual environment, pick up what you resonate with and that is what you take with you at the end of the day and becomes a tiny part of you.

Reflection: Instead of a seamless experience, the game has a lot of constraints(terminal interface, loading time to draw, slow), and this reflects on being intentional on what you gather. It is not a linear narrative, the game does not offer a clear message. It is the journey itself. Taking fun seriously

[Work in Progress]

[Event at UBIK]

November 2025
Website, Zine

SI28: A mazing machines Website & Zine

Landing page design and development for Special Issue 29 website. I used LeaderLine to make the diagram interactive.

Reflection: This was my first time coding collectively. We encountered merge conflict multiple times and took some time to figure out how to work together. Instead of vibe coding, I tried to understand every line of code I write. Googling how to fix errors helped me to understand that you can make a more solid output rather than relying on LLMs.

March 2025
Zine, Illustration

Tangled Thoughts

About: Zine made with paged.js. A project to integrate my illustration practice and experimental publishing.

Reflection: How am I going to integrate analog drawing to coding and what we do at xpub?

March 2025
Python, Website, Workshop

Our Digital Home

About: Collective workshop on the materiality of the cloud. We used ftp file systemns and jinja & python to generate html pages. My role was to develop the website and graphics using ascii art.

Reflection: Making a dynamic website!

What did you learn?

How to work and be together

How to code

• terminal
• css/html
• python
• bash script and hacking new ways

How to just make

• social practice
• critical approach and open attitude

What is/will be your practice?

websites, graphic design, installation? idk

Future research interests?

Platforms and Digital Culture

I like the dopamine these apps give me.

Interesting to read Californian ideology how these services derived from hippie culture. South Korea has the most e-commerce services and unique app environment. What kind of ideology is behind these scenes?

Communal Servers & Collective Making

I want to make things together, have a sense of togetherness rather than doing things alone. Google drive vs sergio

hierarchy strict protocols i dont like, collective making i like!

Drawing + Computation

why with computation... the contrast is fun and live coding