May 21 - 24, 2026
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Jakupsil is pleased to present recent works by Taezoo Park, Paul Choate, and Alberto Ballocca at Focus Art Fair 2026, Booth A6, taking place in New York City. Bringing together artists working across installation, painting, sculpture, and machine-driven media, the booth is organized around a shared inquiry: what remains of the human when technology accumulates, ages, and is discarded—and what new forms of meaning emerge from that residue. Each practice approaches the boundary between human intelligence and mechanical or digital systems from a distinct position, mapping the psychological, cultural, and material stakes of living alongside the machines we build and abandon.
Taezoo Park (b.Korea, based in New York) is an artist and digitologist whose practice began with abandoned CRT televisions on the streets of New York—objects that became not mere found material but phenomenological encounters with technology as a living, context-dependent entity. Combining obsolete and transitional technologies with contemporary computational systems, Park’s long-running Digital Being series enacts Deleuzian processual becoming: works that are continuously reconfigured through the movements, breath, and presence of viewers. His practice is grounded in rigorous research—collaborations with social scientists at Cornell, a residency at the LES Ecology Center, restoration work on Nam June Paik’s artworks—and draws on Benjamin, Foucault, Derrida, and Baudrillard to interrogate simulation, knowledge, and the shifting boundary between reality and virtuality. Park teaches new media art at Pratt Institute.
Paul Choate (b.1984, USA) has dedicated his artistic career to exploring the evolution from manual craft to technological automation. His work examines how advanced technologies like AI and robotics can enhance rather than replace artistic expression. Using machines as creative partners, Calder and Ada, developed through bespoke hardware, brushes, and AI-driven systems—are not tools but interpretive agents, capable of producing work with a logic of their own. Glitch, fragmentation, chromatic shift, and compression artifact are not aesthetic references in this work—they are native behaviors, the marks a machine makes as it processes and misreads. At a moment when many artists pursue algorithmic perfection, Choate pursues algorithmic honesty: each painting is a record of the exchange between human intention and mechanical innocence, a mirror held up to our systems and contradictions, unfiltered.
Alberto Ballocca (b.1993, Italy) works across painting and sculpture, both rooted in instinct, accumulation, and deliberate surrender to the unknown. His canvases build psychological interiority through layered gestural marks where images surface organically from the subconscious. His new sculptures extend this language into three dimensions through an unexpected material: discarded and obsolete technological objects—salvaged components, redundant hardware, spent media—assembled not as critique of obsolescence but as archaeological inquiry into it. Where Park and Choate interrogate what digital technology is becoming, Ballocca examines what it leaves behind, finding in these abandoned objects a symbolic weight closer to ancient artifact than modern detritus.
Jakupsil is a transdisciplinary collective with a nomadic gallery program based in New York and Seoul. The Korean term jakupsil refers to a studio, atelier, or laboratory—a space of making through which the collective activates vacant urban sites with exhibitions and artist-led interventions that intersect art, architecture, and cultural production, with the aim of expanding the scope of architectural and curatorial practice.
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Taezoo Park, 2024-06-09 (Candle TV in the Digital Era), 2024 E-waste components, 16×9 LED matrix, arduino, Price Tag, USB cable, USB charger embedded in a Sony Watchman CRT TV, 5 x 13.5 x 3 in
Taezoo Park, 2025-10-02 (Candle TV in the digital era), 2025 Samsung CRT TV BT-307MR, antenna, blue 16×9 LED matrix, driver module, ESP32, ESP8266, OLED display, mic module, wire, USB charger, and e-waste parts — programmed with Arduino IDE, 10 × 11 × 28.5 in
Taezoo Park, 2024-10-30 (Yellow Candle with Sony 5-303W), 2024 Sony 5-303W, TV Picnic Box, Yellow LED Matrix, Arduino, ESP32, Micro Sensor, E-Waste, Wire, USB Charger, programmed with Arduino IDE, 9.5 x 12 x 9.5 in
Taezoo Park, 2025-10-10 (Still Life in the Digital Era), 2025 Organic grapes, ESP32, speaker, amplifier module, and USB charger placed on a shelf programmed with Arduino IDE, 12 × 5 × 10.25 in
Taezoo Park, 2018-08-06 (Self-Portrait from the Future), 2018 CRT TV, 8x8 red LED matrix, ESP8266, wires, USB charger, red translucent acrylic, furniture legs, programmed with arduino IDE, 7.5 × 9 × 8.6 in
Taezoo Park, 2025-10-17 (Hacked Snoopy) 2025 Toy, ESP8266, OLED display, e-waste parts, wire, USB charger on the book, Being Digital, Programmed with Arduino IDE + API, 8 x 5.1 x 7.5 in
Taezoo Park, 2024-12-31 (Hacked Blackboard) $8,000
Taezoo Park, 2024-12-31 (Hacked Whiteboard), 2024 E-waste components, IR sensor, Arduino, QR Stamp, wiring, USB charger, chalkboard paint on a wood panel, 34 x 34 x 1.75 in
Taezoo Park, 2025-08-08 (“The medium is the message.”), 2025 Book Understanding Media, transistor radio, transistor, vacuum tube, relay, Arduino, OLED display, penny, Bitcoin token, wire, USB-A cable, charger — programmed with Arduino IDE, 7 x 5 x 4 in
Taezoo Park,2025-01-19 (Found Speaker), 2025 E-waste components, Speaker, LED, MP3 module, Touch sensor, USB cable, USB charger, embedded in a Trash can, 8 x 8 x 5 in
Paul Choate, Ambrosius Bosschaert Bouquet of Flowers in a Roemer Reinterpreted, 2026, Acrylic on Wood Panel, 24 x 18 in
Paul Choate, Johannes Vermeer Milkmaids Reinterpreted, 2026, Acrylic on Wood Panel, 24 x 30 in
Paul Choate, Grollier Still Life with a Vase of Flowers, Melon, Peachers and Grapes reinterpreted, 24x30in
Paul Choate, Jacob van Hulsdonck Still Life Reinterpreted, 2026, Acrylic on Wood Panel, 18 x 24 in
Paul Choate, Ballerina, 2024, Acrylic on Wood Panel, 24 x 24in
Paul Choate, Snooty Pooch, 2024, Acrylic on Wood Panel, 24 x 24in
Alberto B, Jinzo, 2024, Iron, wires, alloy, 5Volt led, concrete, acrylic, 7 x 10 x 7 in
Alberto B, Numero 5, 2022, Iron, wires, alloy, 5Volt led, steel and plaster, 7 x 8 x 3.5 in
Alberto B, Numero 9, 2026, Iron, wires, alloy, 5Volt led, steel and plaster, 7 x 8 x 3.5 in
Alberto B, Raw-9 Ronin, 2026, Iron, wires, alloy, 5Volt LED, concrete, clay, wood, acrylic, 7 x 10 x 7 in
Alberto B, Omega, 2026, Clay, acrylic, ink, wood and beads, 3.9 x 5.9 x 3in,
Alberto B, Takuk, 2025, Clay, acrylic and ink, 3.9 x 7.8 x 3.9in
Alberto Ballocca, Ftèri, 2025, mixed media on canvas, 54 x 42in
Alberto Ballocca, King Cinto, 2026, mixed media on canvas, 54 x 42 in
Alberto Ballocca, Mitoscopio, 2024, mixed media on board, 32 x 23.8in
Alberto Ballocca, Eè, 2026, Natural pigment and oil pastel on canvas, 23.5 x 27in
Alberto Ballocca, Qi, 2025, mixed media on canvas, 29 x 23.5 in
Alberto Ballocca, K-Nights, 2026, mixed media on canvas, 18.2 x 24.4in
Alberto Ballocca, Atma Victu, 2024, mixed media on board, 15.5 x 21.5in
Alberto Ballocca, Lereìa, 2026, Oil &acrylic on canvas, 20x16.5in
Alberto Ballocca, The Forge, 2025, mixed media on paper, 11.8 x 15.7 in
Eclipse, 2026, Graphite, color pencil, acrylic on paper, 6 x 8.6 in
Ardea Fenix, 2025, Mixed media on velvet rag paper, 18.8 x 13in
Amphora, 2025, Mixed media on velvet rag paper, 18.8 x 13in
Ark of Knowledge, 2024, Mixed media on velvet rag paper, 18.8 x 13in
Awake Forest, 2024, mixed media on velvet rag paper, 18.8 x 13in
Island of Pun, 2024, Mixed media on velvet rag paper, 18.8 x 13in
Nkarikkyu, 2025, Mixed media on velvet rag paper, 18.8 x 13in
Samurai, 2024, Mixed media on velvet rag paper, 18.8 x 13in
Pramantha Torinese, 2026, Mixed media on velvet rag paper, 18.8 x 13in