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Digital media artists have exploited pervasive technologies to explore urban ecology . Through their interventions, they challenge a city’s inhabitants to consider and experience their local communities in alternate ways that may lead to new approaches by citizens for sustaining and enhancing their living conditions. This chapter reviews a breadth of digital-based work including graffiti, cartography, and security.
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Currently, Korea leads the effort in building these cities, with fifteen currently planned. Songdo, Incheon, is the largest, presently nearing completion. Built on 1,500 acres of land reclaimed from the Yellow Sea off Incheon, about 35 miles from the South’s capital Seoul, Songdo has been designed as a sustainable city with more than 40 % of its area reserved for green space, including a 100-acre park, 16 miles of bicycling lanes, charging stations for electric vehicles, and a waste collection system that eliminates the need for trash trucks. It is the first city in the world to have all major buildings meet or exceed LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) requirements. By its completion date in 2015, the city is planned to contain 80,000 apartments, 50 million square feet of office, and 10 million square feet of retail space. Computers have been built into the houses, streets, and offices as part of a wide area network. Ironically, in 2003, the organization Birds Korea called for a halt of the reclamation project due to concerns at the loss of important tidal flats. Prior to reclamation, the Songdo tidal flats had supported several threatened water bird species and provided a staging ground for migratory waders as they traveled between the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
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“Graffiti.” Oxford Dictionaries. Retrieved 2014-05-05.
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The project was suspended in 2006 and the website archived to Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/yellowarrow/collections/).
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A QR code (quick response code) is a form of two-dimensional barcode used widely to communicate URLs and other short text sequences through camera-based smartphones.
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CV Dazzle is derived from CV, an acronym for computer vision, and Dazzle, a type of World War I naval camouflage which employed cubist-inspired designs to break the visual continuity of a battleship and conceal its orientation and size.
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Marchese, F.T. (2015). The Art of Urban Engagement. In: Marchese, F.T. (eds) Media Art and the Urban Environment. Future City, vol 5. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15153-3_11
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