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Jeffrey 유 Yoo Warren
@jywarren.bsky.social
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Korean American artist educator, ancestral knowledge, crafting pasts & futures • 2023-4 @librarycongress Innovator in Residence • he/him • http://instagram.com/unterbahn
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Auctioning 4 hand drawn porcelain 호랑이 🐯 horangi banchan plates as part of KAAC's fundraiser for @nakasecaftx.bsky.social and @chirla-org.bsky.social

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Four small porcelain plates, drawings of goofy tigers. Text: "Horangi banchan plates" by Jeffrey Yoo Warren. 4.5" diameter, porcelain, a set of four porcelain banchan plates with hand drawn horangi and haetae based on old Korean paintings. November 7-9
November 8, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Brings me back, though! One of the first editable map style engines was my masters thesis many years ago 🥺

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A web map of london styled to look like Warcraft II, with orc huts and farms
October 31, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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this is probably not what you mean but I think you'll enjoy its zanyness anyways! on-the-fly tile color channel filtering:

github.com/publiclab/le...
Map tiles having their color channels recalculated/synthesized on the fly, appearing in bright rainbow colors on some and in original green/blue/browns in others.
October 31, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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My illustration references Roger Kim's linocuts of the Korean protests. ♥️ Plus a reference to @sarahjeong.bsky.social's insightful thoughts on protest tactics.

Handwritten mini journalism is short form lol but as folks gather we are seeing stories abt everything we've had to process this week 😓
Handwritten article about protest in Korea, illustrated with a linocut-style sharpie illustration of an idol torch with a protest headband, taped to a poster sheet on the wall.
April 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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First articles now hitting the front page layout of the Sunday Social News at DS4SI in Dorchester this morning.
Handwritten articles beginning to fill out a DIY newspaper on a poster sized sheet on the wall. Copies of other one page newspapers on the table and wall.
April 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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At the time, newspapers couldn't or wouldn't tell the story of their popular citywide uprising, or of the brutal killing of protesters by the us-backed dictatorship. So students and others began publishing a one page newspaper called 투사회보 Tusahoebo, or the Fighters Bulletin.
Various archival copies of the fighters bulletin, on old yellowing paper
April 5, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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I'll be participating in this event by the Design Studio for Social Intervention -- and running a mini collaborative DIY newspaper for the event inspired by the 📰 published by students during the 1980 Gwangju Uprising.
Person with short gray hair places a paper with writing on it on to a poster sized newspaper made up of other handwritten small articles and pictures taped together on the wall. The Fighter's Bulletin, a newspaper published by students during the Gwangju Uprising. Reprinted on letter size paper, the headline in Korean says "Gwangju Lives"
April 5, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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"SUNDAY SOCIAL NEWS

What changes when we consume, critique, and even produce news together?

Join DS4SI as we prototype a new collective space and ritual for the news.

APRIL 6 SUNDAY 11AM-2PM

FREE + OPEN TO ALL

545 COLUMBIA RO DORCHESTER"

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Poster SUNDAY SOCIAL NEWS 545 COLUMBIA RO DORCHESTER What changes when we consume, critique, and even produce news together? Join DS4SI as we prototype a new collective space and ritual for the news. APRIL 6 SUNDAY 11AM-2PM FREE + OPEN TO ALL Collage of newspapers and people holding them behind
April 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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❤️🐜

Happily all sold out atm but stay tuned for more soon.
Twin low tables in pine with visible knots on thick bases, in dim winter afternoon light on a grassy hillside, surrounded by trees and long shadows. Pine table with large knot holes on a single heavy upright beam base in tamarack, warmly lit by late afternoon winter sun, on a brown grassy field w distant trees, casting long shadows.
March 13, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Delightful clamping through knot holes 🕳️
Clamp extending through a tabletop via a hole formed by a knot in the wood, holding the table onto a support as it dries.
March 1, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Satisfying near-final steps
Large square pegs with contrasting dark grain extending through pine tabletop, one has been cut flush and smoothed off with a giant chisel.
March 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Excited to share these, almost done!
March 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Closeup of the large square wooden tenons (tamarack) extending slightly past the surface of the pine tabletop.
February 25, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Ugh I suppose I should make a Gemmi Goods website and not just an IG profile, but for now,

instagram.com/gemmigoods
A red seal stamp of an ant and the letters "gemmi" in a square layout.
February 25, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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In the spirit of not-IG, posting some of my Gemmi Goods work here too. This is for a pair of tables I'm finishing in the next few weeks.
February 25, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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This work builds on the Hidden Portals project we did w/ Library of Congress. It's part of our upcoming work w/ 1882 Foundation in CA’s Central Valley. 1882 Fdn is supported in this by the Mellon Foundation & our work in Hanford is made possible w/ support from the China Alley Preservation Society.
Logos of China Alley Preservation Society, 1882 Foundation, and Mellon Foundation
January 28, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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As part of our work in Hanford CA, Evelyn Hang Yin & I are hosting an online gathering this Lunar NY season for Asian American & BIPOC folks w/ tiger masks we’ll mail to you, & assemble together. The masks will open VR portals to a reconstructed Hanford in the 1800s, which we’ll experience together.
A reconstructed image of Hanford in the 1800s, visible on a phone being held up in front of a card catalog.
January 28, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Anti-immigrant sentiment, calls for mass deportation, complicity of courts and political leaders… These are a part of this country’s history as much as present-day realities. 150y ago, a widespread movement of anti-Asian violence emerged, rooted in the xenophobic White labor movement of the time.
Susan, a Chinese American woman with grey hair and a pink shirt and denim jacket at @1882foundation Rural Chinatowns conference, experiences the immersive reconstruction by wearing the cardboard tiger mask. A black and white photo of a Chinese American parade Heinlenville Chinatown in San Jose, visible behind a tall wooden fence, a giant triangular 列聖宮 flag waving in front.
January 28, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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I love it when folks deep-dive into something I am also passionate about, and it's also lovely to see old code/utilities take on new lives or connect with new & exciting projects.

You can also still use riso@home here - let me know if you make anything cool: github.com/jywarren/ris...
Toddler Jeff in red hoodie and shorts+sweatpants runs down a grassy hill, smiling. Left side: orig. image with nice old grain. Right: riso-ified image with color halftone dot pattern.
January 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Thanks to contributor Hoatzin, Bookletize.js -- a tool I made to auto-paginate your zines -- now handles "perfect binding." <3

jywarren.github.io/bookletize.js/

I continue to love hearing from people who use this utility all over the world! Keep on zining <3
January 13, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Hi all, I'm co-teaching another cycle of the Relational Reconstructions 10-week course at School for Poetic Computation this winter, working in paper and digitally with archival and family photos. ❤️ Apps will close in a few days - scholarships available as well:

sfpc.study/sessions/win...
A photo of a group of people dressed in white gather around a shovel, on a riverbank. Around the photo is a 3D scene extending the photo into a speculative virtual space with fields of grass, mountains, and a shallow river. A black and white photo of a child looking at comic books in a roughly collaged 3D scene of a dirt road and wooden fence, with a tree overhanging.
November 14, 2024 at 8:53 PM
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I have two pieces in this fundraiser ♥️

A copy of the first edition of Dru Chiu Tattersfield and my papercraft neighborhood zine about Providence Chinatown in 1914, and a print of Solidarity Economy, an illustration in collab w Caroline Woolard.
A line illustration in isometric view of a bustling neighborhood featuring coops, worker spaces and workshops, educational and mutual aid sites. A hand holding a paper window frame, framing a view down to cobbled street and facing building below; a small stair at the front edge now descends to a lower floor.
October 28, 2023 at 4:59 PM
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A year later, in residency at the Library of Congress, I’ve worked w dozens of people to craft a space of care from a family photo or archival photo they feel a personal connection with, & I’ve created an online gallery w many of the memory spaces–enclaves–which people crafted in these workshops.
A website showing a black and white photo collage of a child looking at comic books by a wooden fence on a dirt road.
October 24, 2023 at 9:36 PM
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Over the past year, I’ve taught many workshops on Ancestral Memory Enclaves, a project which began when CultureHub asked me if I could teach something related to my relational reconstruction practice in a 3 hour session for ReFest last October.
A blurry black and white photo of my mom playing in the snow in Seoul, and a virtual reconstruction of the yard, with snow falling, smoke in the distance.
October 24, 2023 at 9:35 PM
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So here is a field guide to fried dough and lookalikes in Rhode Island
October 24, 2023 at 12:15 AM