smartphone

The Generative Adversarial Network
Wesley Lee Yang (BR)

Democratization of technology and information has not been the means of liberation and empowerment as it could have been. As described and discussed by the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, these developments have been co-opted to become mostly a means of commercial exploitation. These manipulation processes have moved from mass media to the internet and to the smart devices that are pervasive in our lives. Even when we don’t want them, it is impractical to function in society without owning and operating them. Adding insult to injury, not only are we exchanging our privacy, freedom and the health of our planet to devices that bring us convenience and comfort, but also doing it to have access to useless features, many of which create new problems for us—so that we will need or want the next “innovation.”
Smartphone Archeology
Anna Miklavic (AT), Vanessa Pichorner (AT)

How will we look back on our smartphone in 100 years? What could an analogue long-term archive time capsule of our smartphones look like?
City Walk
Multidisciplinary team of HKU students (INT)

In City Walk, several HKU students work in interdisciplinary teams to create different augmented reality video tours through the city center of Linz. They invite you to watch the city in a completely different way, by zooming in on specific stories and details that often stay unseen. The audience will be directed to the starting point of the city walk by the map on their phone. The video will guide the audience from that point. Walk safe: don’t forget to be aware of your surroundings and traffic!
Casper’s Ex ​
Casper de Jong (NL)

Casper’s Ex is a playful interactive installation on the relationship between human beings and everyday technology. More specifically, this installation is about the relationship between our smartphones and ourselves. We feel attached to our devices, but as soon as a newer and better model crosses our path, we trade them in without remorse. The phone, however, cannot move on. Your data, your scent, and your picture is all they have left. Casper’s Ex is a lonely smartphone that’s been left behind and is trying to connect with you while you are passing by.