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Real Time Cities: An Introduction to Urban Cybernetics
Project Description
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values, but ultimately the person, who
poses it.
Delete Machine could be considered a way
to describe the practices of censorship
under authoritarian regimes, which
eventually are a deleting process of the
individual, whose nature it is to askquestions and seek knowledge.
Anne Schmidt, Brad Crane, Ling Fan
Delete Machine
An Interactive Installation
In several countries, government authorities
censor and monitor internet usage,
employing increasingly sophisticated means
of control. Internet users situated in such
restrictive conditions invest tremendous
efforts to bypass censorship and reveal
manipulated content. Grassroots heroes likee.g. Ai Weiwei became well-known because
of their posing provocative questions and
their criticism on authorities, which
subsequently caused their disappearance
- both virtually and physically. However,
originally the hero is not elevated into
its hero-status by employing Western
values and criticism within authoritarian
regimes (e.g. China, Iran). Hero in thiscase does not refer to a specic person,
rather hero is a dynamic status manifested
through both, appearance and disappearance
in internet censorship.
Delete machine situates itself in a
specic cultural and political context.
It is seeking to communicating between
different provocative questions, and
observing the appearance and disappearanceof those heroes contributing to them.
Delete Machine simulates the condition of
internet censorship in Iran. Everyone, who
enganges with it can test to what degree
censorship will limit his/her ability to
receive answers to personal, critical
searches under Iranian conditions.
The result is not only the question itself
being deleted as a result of imposed
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How was the data collected?
The application searches google for a user
input query term. The top twenty results
are collected into an array. Each result
is then tested through an Iranian proxyserver to check if the link is viewable or
is censored. A blocked / available array is
generated and contains the second layer of
data.
Why was the data collected?
Our polemic is that by censoring data on
the internet governments are limiting theavailability of a dynamic world view. This
limitation is indicated by the willingness
to omit or redact search results. Our data
is further indicative of what is available
versus what is viewable.
What is interesting about the data?
In this case the data is a direct statementabout the policies of a country toward a
specic person or topic. This quantication
is essential in the understanding of the way
countries perceive and understand events
both current and historical. The lens which
we each view the world, the heroes we hold
dear, they all shape the way we think, act,
and respond to our environments.
Who is the target audience of the data
visualization?
Anyone who has a provocative question to
ask and is willing to dilute
What are the audiences goals when
approaching the visualization?
To searching the accessibility of a
provocative question; to trying to make
themselves disappear with a provocative
question; To nding a connection between
different audiences/heroes.
What do they stand to learn?
To creating understanding that there is a
difference between cultural and political
systems; To creating awareness of a self
presence in such systems; To explore
others questions and presence
What sort of control are they offered
over the interface that delivers theinformation?
The dataset is entirely dependent on the
query search term given by the user and the
provocative nature of their attitude toward
the installation.
How is the question of the magnitude of the
data dealt with: limiting the collecteddata, limiting the dimensions in the data
set to be represented, or abstracting the
data?
Our data is limited by the behavioral
tendencies of web use. It is a colloquialism
that no one ever looks past the rst page
of google results. We have doubled this in
our set for a dynamic, but usable dataset.In the overall archipelago the dataset
would be created for all 10 countries proxy
results. This set would be larger but would
never exceed 10x20 results.
How does the original question to be
addressed operate as the benchmark for
eliminating unnecessary details in the data
visualization?
Our data visualization is dependent on
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the user engaging proactively the spirit
of the installation. If the search query,
for example, is cupcakes, perhaps it
is 100% available and the results are
uninteresting. In this case our device will
respond with a provocation, like Perhapsyou would like to see how an inspirational
hero in your life is seen in .
How are particular patterns highlighted
through visualization techniques in order
of their importance?
A continuous log of the results is kept
by the printing scrolls throughout theexhibition. This analog record can be
browsed or just acknowledged peripherally.
Is the data of a static or dynamic nature?
It is assumed as static, but is dynamic
in response to the international policies
and politics of the current moment. For
example, as the news of the day evolvesdifferent things would be blocked in
response. In Iran the censorship policies
the day before the Green Revolution and the
day after were likely drastic.
If the data is of a dynamic nature, what
happens when it starts to change? How does
the audience interact with this live
data? How is the data that changes overtime unraveled?
Repeated or popular searches could be
compared over the life of the installation.
It would be a serendipitous occasion
where the dynamism of the data would be
perceptible.
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World Map of Internet Censorship (Wikipedia, Jeffrey Ogden, 2011)
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Workow diagram
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projector
backlighted projecon screen
smoked glass
sensor
light
Prototype of Delete Machine
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Searching and Dissolving according to the
amount of censored search results
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Twitter stream of all searches
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Mapping the search results onto a world map
(Zoom-in on regional map)
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Proxy(IRAN)
GOOGLE
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Flowchart of Prototype
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Circuit of Prototype & Printed Circuit Board
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Processing code
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Options of Spatial Layout
Panopticon
Field
Line
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