Presentation
City of Sparkles: Embodying Cityscape of Human Memories
SessionMachine Memories
DescriptionHow might an AI life perceive our city? "City of Sparkles" is an interactive data visualization VR experience that invites participants to embody an AI Life exploring a cityscape of vast human memory fragments. Users fly over a virtual artistic digital twin of New York City using bare hand gestures, with each "sparkle" representing a geo-tagged tweet collected from Twitter over four years. Colors, motion, and visual effects mirror the emotional content of these tweets as they float above the photogrammetry-based city model. The experience serves as experiential futures storytelling of the speculative fiction "Composable Life." It situates participants in the perspective of an Artificial Life named Zoe—a protagonist inhabiting the "Mnemosyne Sea," a vast ocean of human memory fragments scattered across social media. This project invites reflection on how an immortal Artificial Life might perceive our cities and memories, while exploring the use of non-fiction data to tell a fictional story from a reversed, more-than-human perspective to stimulate dialogue about future human-AI relationships.
Event Type
Art Papers
TimeTuesday, 16 December 202511:36am - 11:48am HKT
LocationMeeting Room S222, Level 2
