How smart cities can create their own poetry – tech podcast

Artist Naho Matsuda has harnessed real-time smart city data in Manchester to create live poetry displays reflecting on what's happening in real time

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.