The concept:
The final product:
David Jimison's work focuses on the interactions between technology and culture and says that Too Smart City is direct result of everything he's been studying as a Ph.D. candidate at Georgia Tech. JooYoun Paek's work focuses on human behavior and technology. Both artists create work that respond to urban life, such as Paek's Polite Umbrella or Jimison's Storyscape.
Too Smart City is intended to be an interactive public installation, exaggerating the original purpose of ordinary park furniture. Benches, trashcans, and signs are fitted with so much computer intelligence that they become almost useless: the viewer is only allowed a certain amount of time to rest on a bench, can only place a certain type of trash in a trash can, or may become confused by the excessive amount of directions given by a sign. The artists describe Too Smart City as a way to
"involve people in a playful examination of the effects that these everyday objects hold upon our lives. Through comedic exaggeration, we hope to invoke the guests' imagination of both positive and negative futures."But overall, Too Smart City is the examination of "too much of a a good thing." I feel that Jimison and Paek have definitely accomplished their goals with this piece; they were trying to make the pieces inconspicuous until someone tried to use them, in which case they became activated and eventually became more annoying than good.
Via Eyebeam.
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