Unboxed City2024"Unboxed City" immerses visitors inside a generative AI system, revealing how neural networks collect, encode, and decode data to shape urban environments. The installation—a black-box structure—symbolizes the opacity of AI algorithms, critiquing their biases and limitations in city-making.
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Technology
Team
Exhibition, CV, AI, Image Segmentation, Python,DataViz
Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism & Civic Data Design Lab Python, Image Segmentation Sarah Williams (Director)
Alberto Meouchi (Exhibition Lead)
Minwook Kang
Rohit Sanatani
Karen Kuo
Maria Gabriela Carucci
Nathan Powell
Thanh Nguyen
Ricardo Campos
Lauren Gideonse
Tianyu Su
Addy Smith-Reiman
Sara Mesquita
Niko McGlashan
Katerina Labrou
Eric Lam
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The narrative reveals the biases, and limitations in shaping cities through AI which are built on available datasets—from satellite imagery to street-level photos, demographic profiles, and climate information—they are assembled on what is accessible, not the nuances of what makes a city. The black reflective walls of the box’s interior project real and unreal elements layered in an infinite loop, creating the sensation of what it might feel like to be inside an algorithm. The infinite reflectivity reminds visitors that what is created through generative AI is not real but rather impressions of reality.
- UNBOXED CITY EXHIBITION-Narrative The narrative reveals the biases, and limitations in shaping cities through AI which are built on available datasets—from satellite imagery to street-level photos, demographic profiles, and climate information—they are assembled on what is accessible, not the nuances of what makes a city. The black reflective walls of the box’s interior project real and unreal elements layered in an infinite loop, creating the sensation of what it might feel like to be inside an algorithm. The infinite reflectivity reminds visitors that what is created through generative AI is not real but rather impressions of reality. -
The black reflective walls of the box’s interior project real and unreal elements layered in an infinite loop, creating the sensation of what it might feel like to be inside an algorithm.
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