Time and Space Reconstruction Workshop

With the development of digital network technology, through the daily practice of urban life and according to the unique logic of different cities, citizens will increasingly connect the emerging communication media technology, urban geographical architecture and other spatial elements, as well as the local cultural and historical accumulation of cities, forming a new space and time for urban communication. The virtual “public space” created by media technology combines with the physical urban geographic space, which is no longer only a real “representation” or a neutral “transmission means”, but is subordinate to “reality”.

This workshop will introduce the technical means of on-site inspection and intelligence analysis: Participants obtain content/information from media events in Jiuxianqiao and digitally reconstruct specific media Spaces. In the workshop, artist Yu Tongzhou led the participants through the investigation of public events in Jiuxianqiao, learning about fictional or non-fictional events, using search engines to collect text, pictures and videos, and completing map-based open source intelligence Analysis (OSINT). Mobile scanning and Photogrammetry were used to reconstruct the 3D design method. Finally, participants will learn how to place 3D reconstructions and rehearsed narratives in the game engine (Unity) in chronological and path order based on the results of open source intelligence analysis.

Yu Tongzhou

A transmedia narrator and contextualist, Yu Tongzhou is currently a teacher at the School of Innovative Design of China Academy of Art, a member of Shanghai Artists Association, and an expert consultant of ToF AR content development for Sony Semiconductor Solutions. He received systematic education in Shanghai University of Applied Sciences, China Academy of Art, Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris and Royal College of Art successively. Between 2016 and 2022, his augmented reality, mixed reality, video installations and dome films have been exhibited and screened in Wuhan, Hangzhou, Shanghai, London, Jena and Barcelona. The current phase focuses on human augmentation through the creation of futuristic objects specific to the Internet of Smart Things in the framework of the reality-virtual continuum.