"Seoul is alive, a city bustling with eager people in their twenties. But where are the old people? Hardly any people in their sixties are ever sighted. Even more, the long-term foreign residents rarely show any movement, as if they are anchored to a specific location. As you can see on the screen, the numbers, the movements, and the dots are all of us. They represent ourselves. A myriad of data embodies the movements within the city. Based on raw data, we visualized the...
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"Seoul is alive, a city bustling with eager people in their twenties. But where are the old people? Hardly any people in their sixties are ever sighted. Even more, the long-term foreign residents rarely show any movement, as if they are anchored to a specific location. As you can see on the screen, the numbers, the movements, and the dots are all of us. They represent ourselves. A myriad of data embodies the movements within the city. Based on raw data, we visualized the flow of big data related to the population of Seoul city. The three-dimensional images of the dots seem to take on the form of particles drifting across outer space. Let’s assume that these dots indicate the movements of the people living in Seoul. This world of numbers before us has the immense power to draw us into the world of data in a moment, and so transfixed by it, we are left looking at it for quite some time. Is this because data is the product of a very real phenomenon? The City Rhythm project includes a section with the subtitle LOST, which shows the image of the city depicted as a point cloud, rendered by scanning the city with a 3D scanner. It seems to be packed with particles of dust—an ethereal hallucination in a virtual world.
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