Jin-Kyu Jung coauthors a paper, “Smart city photo booths: Playful data”

Jin-Kyu Jung and a former IAS faculty member, Ted Hiebert, have published a paper, “Smart city photo booths: Playful data,” in the Environment and Planning F journal.

Sharing one of the critical moments in an interdisciplinary collaboration between an urban geographer/planner and a visual artist, they provide an example of a playful data intervention conducted by students promoted to engage in the complexities and possibilities of digital urban landscapes. The project looks at urban surveillance as a technological ecosystem—digital infrastructures premised on gathering “data”, while also thinking about poetic and experiential alternatives to this way of conceptualizing space. What they call “Smart City Photo Booths” prompts us to rethink the relationship between data and lived experience with digitally mediated society. Smile for the camera!