Super City
An electronic dynamic installation that transforms PCB boards, magnetic fluid, and light into the daily operation of a media city — circulation, emergence, data flow, and the strangeness of urban time.
Social life in the 21st century is increasingly life in a media city. The work treats the city as a living organism: information moves like blood, density patterns become the heartbeat, and each PCB segment carries its own micro-rhythm of LED pulses.
Above the PCB cityscape, glass tubes filled with magnetic fluid suspend in vertical columns. Magnetic forces pull the black fluid into spike-shaped sculptures that shift as the underlying data flows through the city — making the invisible architecture of information physically visible.
The piece was the result of months of material research: dozens of magnetic fluid tests, custom PCB fabrication, and Touch Designer programming to choreograph the entire system in real time. It marks an early experiment in treating the urban as something that can be sensed, not just inhabited.
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