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A Walled City wins
a Red Dot Award 2026

A Walled City wins
a Red Dot Award 2026

A Walled City wins
a Red Dot Award 2026

A Walled City has been recognised in the Red Dot Award: Design Concept 2026. The work takes Kowloon Walled City as its reference and builds a city of collective memory from the photographs visitors offer, through a system of many agents working together. It is created by Weidi Zhang (Arizona State University) and Jieliang Luo, Founder and Chief Scientist of Minus AI. Our thanks to everyone who has supported the work on its way, and to Red Dot for the recognition.

A Walled City has been recognised in the Red Dot Award: Design Concept 2026. The work takes Kowloon Walled City as its reference and builds a city of collective memory from the photographs visitors offer, through a system of many agents working together. It is created by Weidi Zhang (Arizona State University) and Jieliang Luo, Founder and Chief Scientist of Minus AI. Our thanks to everyone who has supported the work on its way, and to Red Dot for the recognition.

October 2026

Award

A Walled City poster: the title and the names Weidi Zhang and Rodger Luo over a point-cloud city dissolving into light

RLHF without human labels
at ECCV 2026 in Malmö

RLHF without human labels
at ECCV 2026 in Malmö

RLHF without human labels
at ECCV 2026 in Malmö

RLHF works, but human feedback is slow and expensive. Our framework lets models check themselves, redrawing the image a caption describes and measuring the drift, on about 20% of the usual data.

September 2026

Publication

Don't score a caption abstractly. Reconstruct it, and compare: a reconstructed mountain photo next to the original

RLHF works, but human feedback is slow and expensive. Our framework lets models check themselves, redrawing the image a caption describes and measuring the drift, on about 20% of the usual data.

Showing A Walled City
at FILE 2026 in São Paulo

Showing A Walled City
at FILE 2026 in São Paulo

Showing A Walled City
at FILE 2026 in São Paulo

A Walled City travels to Brazil for Inter-creativity, the 26th Electronic Language International Festival, joining more than 150 works on art and technology. On view at the FIESP Cultural Center through October 11, 2026, with free admission.

August 2026

Exhibition

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A Walled City: a point cloud of the city's stacked buildings drifting in black space

A Walled City travels to Brazil for Inter-creativity, the 26th Electronic Language International Festival, joining more than 150 works on art and technology. On view at the FIESP Cultural Center through October 11, 2026, with free admission.

Exhibiting A Walled City
at SIGGRAPH 2026 in Los Angeles

Exhibiting A Walled City
at SIGGRAPH 2026 in Los Angeles

Exhibiting A Walled City
at SIGGRAPH 2026 in Los Angeles

Our interactive AI installation turns images uploaded by visitors into the architectural chambers of an evolving virtual city, modeled on Hong Kong’s Kowloon Walled City. One of 12 works selected from 211 submissions for the SIGGRAPH 2026 Art Gallery.

July 2026

Exhibition

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A Walled City installed in a dark gallery: a glowing projected chamber of red and green imagery, with visitors watching from the floor

Our interactive AI installation turns images uploaded by visitors into the architectural chambers of an evolving virtual city, modeled on Hong Kong’s Kowloon Walled City. One of 12 works selected from 211 submissions for the SIGGRAPH 2026 Art Gallery.

Presenting ReCollection
at ZKM in Karlsruhe

Presenting ReCollection
at ZKM in Karlsruhe

Presenting ReCollection
at ZKM in Karlsruhe

Our interactive installation on how agents form, forget, and revisit memories is on view at ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe from July 4, 2026 to February 21, 2027, turning personal memories into synthetic ones, assembled from the fragments of many people’s pasts.

July 2026

Exhibition

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Our interactive installation on how agents form, forget, and revisit memories is on view at ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe from July 4, 2026 to February 21, 2027, turning personal memories into synthetic ones, assembled from the fragments of many people’s pasts.