Uncomputable Thread is a presentation, conversation and participatory movement workshop by artist Taeyoon Choi, created in collaboration with scholar Alexander R. Galloway, choreographer Cori Kresge and artist Roopa Vasudevan. The work examines the history of textile in relation to computing, alongside the artistic and political significance of what cannot be computed and draws on themes of the current exhibition, Technologies of Relation, which includes works by both Choi and Vasudevan.

Choi and Galloway’s presentation weaves together their long collaboration and ongoing conversation about the aesthetics and politics of code and textile, followed by a discussion moderated by Vasudevan. Kresge directs a participatory movement workshop that extends the conversation toward visceral and communal experience. Together, the project explores uncomputability as a creative framework for thinking about contemporary technologies and social systems, connecting the threads of cotton and fiber-optic cables running through data centers.

About the Facilitators

최태윤 Taeyoon Choi is an artist, writer, and educator who explores the poetics of technology and human relations, working with images, text, and code in collaboration with fellow artists and community members. In 2013, he co-founded the School for Poetic Computation, a hybrid school, residency, and research group exploring the intersections of code, design, hardware, and theory. His work has been presented at institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art and MASS MoCA.

Cori Kresge is a New York-based dance artist whose practice moves across choreography, somatic inquiry, participatory structures, and poetry. Her work has been presented by Goethe in the Skyways, Elevation 1049, Beach Sessions Rockaway, Green Space, and Dance Roulette, among others. A certified teacher and stager for the Merce Cunningham Trust, she is also the author of two chapbooks, isn’t devotion (2019) and Combustion Suite (2023), and the founder of PlayWithMatchesWorkshop.com.

Alexander R. Galloway is a writer and computer programmer working on issues in philosophy, technology, and theories of mediation, and Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. He is the author of several books on digital media and critical theory, including The Interface Effect (Polity, 2012). A founding member of the software collective RSG, his honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Berlin Prize, and the Prix Ars Electronica.

^{Support for Technologies of Relation is provided by the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation, The Coby Foundation, Robert Motherwell and Renate Ponsold (in memoriam), Dale and Deborah Smith Foundation, and a grant from Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation’s Artist’s Resource Trust.}

^{Distributed Web of Care, Taeyoon Choi With Jerron Harman, stud1nt, Tiriree Kananuruk, Jonathan Dahan, Chancey Fleet and the School for Poetic Computation, Whitney Museum of American Art, Photo by Fillip Wolak, 2019}