Taeyoon Choi: Strategies for Embracing Our Contradictions

About this talk:
Taeyoon Choi, an artist and co-founder of the School for Poetic Computation, is well-practiced at finding beauty in the chaos, and unafraid to dig into the complicated ways we connect and learn from each other. In this nuanced talk, illustrated with excerpts from his journal, he discusses the concept of unlearning, nurturing relationships that allow room for disagreement, and making space to be your whole self (contradictions and all).
This talk was recorded remotely on May 24, 2020
About this speaker:
Taeyoon Choi is an artist, educator, and activist based in New York and Seoul. Taeyoon teaches at New York University’s ITP program and co-founded the School for Poetic Computation, where he continues to organize sessions and teach classes on electronics, drawings, and social practice. Recently, he’s been focusing on unlearning the wall of disability and normalcy, and enhancing accessibility and inclusion within art and technology.

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This was beautiful. Thank you for sharing

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Love it. But I have not found proof how true empathy is possible outside of imagination. Sympathy yes, but not empathy. Also I see a conflict in your talk between diversity and sameness. Our value is in difference and we shouldn't try to dampen it. Our biases shouldn't be eliminated, instead our box should be widened. But this can only be possible one this is socially and financially seen as a valued behavior in our society. I think humans have individual egoism and social egoism. Right now it's out of balance to the side of individual. That causes us to limit reality to our small box of self and get trapped in that loop, making us believe it's the full Truth.