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

October 2025 Python Poetry

Poetry Generator

Extension from the fermenting the earth workshop I participated at iMAL with Leal. Part of the participants gathered to make a collective growing poetry and participated in the exhibition held at CCU Utrecht.

October 2025 Python Script, Website

Cooking Spam Emails

Using the email from advertisement email ABN AMRO, split into phrases and randomized the letter to make a different context. Inspired by Nick Montfort's poetry this website runs the python code everytime to make a new output.

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.

Work in Progress

Event at UBIK

November 2025 Website, Zine

SI28: A mazing machines Website & Zine

Landing page design for Special Issue 29 website. I used LeaderLine to make the diagram interactive. Still a bit of glitches to fix but was my first time collaborative developing something including merge conflicts.

March 2025 Zine, Illustration

Tangled Thoughts

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

March 2025 Python, Website, Workshop

Our Digital Home

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.

What did you learn?

• Improve coding skills
• documentation and writing
• 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!

Combining analog methods of drawing with computation

why with computation... the contrast is fun