Jeffrey Yoo Warren | Jeffrey Yoo Warren

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I design open source objects, activities, and interactions that re-organize ideas about expertise, identity, equity, and our environment.

I'm interested in how people build identity and strength through their interactions with objects, and the ways that objects can tell stories that people can be part of.

Together Shovel — In 2023, I looked in the stereograph collections of the Library of Congress as part of my residency, and suddenly found a photograph that I recognized – of a group of Korean people shoveling together...

Seeing Lost Enclaves — Relational reconstructions of erased historic neighborhoods of color is a project by Jeffrey Yoo Warren as part of the 2023 Innovator in Residence Program at the Library of Congress. Click here to read more about...

Mechanism for healing oneself with water — “Mechanism for healing oneself with water,” originally imagined for my mother, takes inspiration from 자격루 / jagyeongnu, a self-striking water clock made by Jang Yeong-sil in 1434. It was part of a group show with...

Hanok Re-existencia — What can we learn about the worlds of our ancestors, and the textures and shapes of the lives they lived? Are their hopes and dreams still evident in the clues we find in archives and...

Ancestral Memory Enclaves: Diasporic memory and relational reconstruction — In this workshop series, using “memory objects” – photos from personal archives of one’s family, chosen family, and/or historical records – as windows into ancestral moments, participants employ digital tools to speculatively re-create the space...

Seeing Providence Chinatown — Seeing Providence Chinatown is a project using archival photography and maps to build an immersive digital 3D model of historic downtown Providence Chinatown. The process of reconstructing the neighborhood’s building exteriors and streets will weave...

Taller Leñateros Zine — Taller Leñateros is a collective publishing house operated by contemporary Maya artists in Chiapas, Mexico. With great love and gratitude for this work to preserve their ancestral knowledge, we have made a zine to celebrate...

Box microscopes — Imagining possible pasts is as important as possible futures. It requires rethinking how the world looks, feels, and with whom it is in conversation. As part of my series on Instruments for Multiple Worlds and...

Preciousness and Power — A video essay incorporating microscopic footage of a 皮蛋 (pine-patterned egg) being opened, addressing such topics as anti-assimilation in visual media and the scientific gaze, intimacy and intangible ideas of memory and nostalgia, culminating in...

Instruments for multiple worlds — In early 2020, I’ve begun a collection of projects which prototype culturally situated knowledge production in a world where dominant culture collapses all meanings into one lineage (see Anti-Assimilation, esp. Sadie Prego). Each instrument explores...

Microscopic Cyanotypes — As I’ve been making and using DIY microscopes for some years, I was curious to try taking an analog photograph of a microscopic sample. I have been testing a way to produce a cyanotype directly...

WebJack audio sensor communication — WebJack is a way of connecting a web page to a sensor or devices using a 1970s-era audio modem protocol to enable two-way communication. It sends a series of audio tones back and forth between...