RUOXI LI
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XR
- Near Clouds
- The Vison of Time
- Hello, human
Installation
- AI HANZI
- City Brain
- Politechs
Others
- Night Trains
- Green Meat
- Read, Marked, Monitored
- Spaceland
City Brain
2023In Hangzhou, China, the city's "Smart Brain," designed to optimize urban planning through data-driven and technocratic methods, has ironically become a counterproductive "brain clot," struggling with poorly coordinated traffic signals and inconsistent lane allocations. I've deconstructed this flawed system into four distinct layers: Urban, Sensory, Cloud, and Management. Through experimental visualizations, I objectively demonstrate how data is collected, utilized, and processed across these layers. Additionally, a complex circuit, composed of four layers of sensors and microcontrollers, illuminates a pentagonal LED light at the top as a satirical commentary on the formalism and nihilism in the city's data collection efforts. This serves to highlight the severe power imbalance between individual citizens and the city's data infrastructure.