The birth and progress of civilization are linked to the development of cities. This study investigates how people view and experience Tokyo, the populous megalopolis and major tourist hub. A digital art installation unveils a Tokyo that exists only through interaction. The authors reduce the city’s culturally dependent representation through a database using hashtags in 47 languages. The automated processing of the database finds trends in Tokyo’s representations on Instagram using Computer Vision (CV) and Natural Language Processing (NLP), yielding results in the art installation like current semiotic readings of the city.

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2023
ISAST

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The Unveiled City consists of an interactive data visualization that enables the detection of patterns in the cultural representation of Tokyo on Instagram based on its hashtag labeling in 47 different languages. © Yonlay Cabrera, Luis Diago

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