Artist and designer Naho Matsuda has been working with FutureEverything to create poetry from the live smart city data being generated by the city of Manchester. The resultant text-based works appear around the city at bus stops, outside libraries and shopping centres, and you can read them in real-time here. Matsuda and curator Natalie Kane discuss the possibilities of live data in creating new art with Leigh Alexander.



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