A brief presentation given at the GeoCity Smart City Symposium at the China Museum of Digital Art, (CMoDA) Beijing. It discusses and illustrates ideas around the themes of public interactivity, remodulating relationships and the research project augmented_studio.

1. Public interactivity Remodulating relationships augmented_studio
Interactive Media > Smart Cities
Ian McArthur + Brad Miller | College of Fine Art, University of New South Wales, Australia
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Image: plasma_flow, VIVID LightsOUT! Sydney, 2012

2. Image: plasma_flow, VIVID LightsOUT! Sydney, 2012

3. augmented>
Image: augment_me, Artspace, Sydney, 2009

4. data_shadow uses a granular synthesis system - a basic sound synthesis method that operates
on the micro sound time scale and uses sound samples thus creating a live soundscape. “Like
static, the soundtrack turns the viewer into a bar on the radio dial. Through our movements we
tune in the flow of time and data. The signal drops in and out of the noise.” Lizzie Muller.
participatory>
Image: data_shadow, Brad Miller, Underbelly Arts, Cockatoo Island, Sydney, 2011

5. The Minhocão, São Paulo, Brazil
“…a smart city will be a city whose
community has learned to
learn, adapt and innovate.”
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"E-governance and smart communities: topia: taking the thesis on digitally-inclusive regeneration and sustainable communities:
a social learning challenge". Social regeneration full circle". Journal of Urban the role networks, innovation and
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14 (1): 77–91.
Image: Minhocão, Sao Paulo, Brazil 2012

6. Minhocão: A walk from the city center to the end of the
highway takes about two hours, and the length is lined
with “pixações” (graffiti tags unique to São Paulo), mobile
grills, buskers and street vendors selling aqua de coco.
São Paulo
Image: Minhocão, Sao Paulo, Brazil 2012

7. open studio lab
Shanghai September 2011
rare earth>
hacking the city
Image: RARE EARTH: Hacking the City 2011

8. “If the experiment of 20 million people in
Shanghai, all wanting Audis, all wanting
parks to fall in love in, all wanting dumplings
doesn’t work, then the world is truly
doomed. It is at critical mass. You can’t
solve this but you can get involved.” Pudong, Shanghai
(Goodwin, R., 2011, Rare Earth StudioLAB brief)
Shanghai
Image: RARE EARTH: Hacking the City 2011

9. The power of the image includes a diverse and persuasive facility
to focus the attention of a group, identify conflict or
congruence, reveal implied knowledge and past
“The city is a sandpit
experiences, highlight new or unfamiliar ways of seeing and
being in the world, and to document. shanghai, project, air, conditioner, ha
of possibility to your nging, plant, outdoor
hacking ability.
Shanghai is the
laboratory.”
(Goodwin, R., 2011, Rare Earth StudioLAB brief) Caroline Sutrisna, “Rainbox”
Image: RARE EARTH: Hacking the City 2011
Image: RARE EARTH: Hacking the City 2011

10. photography
video sketching
petcha kutcha
immersive networked space
digital database tools
“shared vision”
Ezio Manzini (2007)
Image: RARE EARTH: Hacking the City 2011

11. Good to China Urban Farm, Downtown, Shanghai
Xinchejian
IDEO
Xindanwei
aaajiao
Bee or Wasp
Image: RARE EARTH: Hacking the City 2011

12. Image: RARE EARTH: Hacking the City 2011

13. Image: RARE EARTH: Hacking the City 2011

14. Boundary objects are objects which are both plastic
enough to adapt to local needs and constraints of the
several parties employing them, yet robust enough to
maintain a common identity across sites.
(Star, S.L. & Griesemer, J.R., 1989).
the boundary object
Image: PorosityC8 2009

15. Zhang Lu and Andrew
Collin, “Found”
portrait, engagement, typograph portrait, engagement, typogra portrait, engagement, typogra
y, photography, Shanghai, perfor phy, photography, Shanghai, phy, photography, Shanghai,
Image: RARE EARTH:character, City 2011
mance, writing, Hacking the found performance, writing, charact performance, writing, charact
_links, female, exterior, trees, gre er, found_links, maroon, old, er, found_links, maroon, shop
en, river, serene man, male, street, exterior, ur , female, interior, urban
ban
Images: RARE EARTH: Hacking the City 2011

16. …Self-disclosure is the individual's Amy Donaldson, “Chinese Laundry”
willingness to be open or to appropriately tell
their counterparts things about themselves.
It is one of the most important elements for
the development of an interpersonal
relationship…
(Guo‐Ming Chen, 1989:118-133)
line, clothes, blue, sky, shanghai, rareearth
disclosure>
Image: RARE EARTH: Hacking the City 2011

17. We rarely collaborate
successfully with those
we do not trust.
Kwang-Kuo Hwang, 2007
Playing with robots, Xinchejian
trust>
hacker, space, dancing. robot, machine, dance
Image: RARE EARTH: Hacking the City 2011

18. Image: RARE EARTH: Hacking the City 2011

19. Thanks for
your attention
Ian McArthur + Brad Miller | College of Fine Art, University of New South Wales, Australia
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Image: Concept (Brad Miller) starry_night, ISEA 2013, Sydney