"Virtual Urban Utopia" is a site-specific net project , which creates a website in order for people to imagine what life is like in their own virtual urban utopia in cyberspace. The site is divided into two parts: history map and future map. The history map is a community space for people to tell their story by taking the bus in their daily life, that maps the city through journeys undertaken on the Leeds Free City Bus. The artist has created the website for you, the audience to upload your own images and communicate with each other through the Internet.
The project utilises Leeds Free City Bus, as a way of mapping the city. The artist invites the audience to document with film and photography, their journey on the Leeds Free City Bus route, and upload them onto the project's website www.virtualurbanutopiadiary.com. Through this process the windows of the bus become the embodiment of a city gallery, and the photographs and images collected on the website, enable the audience to tell their story.
The website acts as a space for the passengers to communicate, interact and feel part of a wider community.
此計畫藝術家邀請社會各階層與各行業於城市工作的人們,不限種族與年紀,以城市人的角度,或是異鄉人拜訪新城市的角度,藉由搭乘公車一個月,以影像或聲音的日誌式紀錄城市居民的生態。此計畫將為未來世界的城市居民創造一個網路巴士虛擬空間( The Virtual Commonwealth of Cyberia),這些乘客的日誌將被未來的城市居民閱覽。歡迎乘客於此虛擬的未來城市巴士空間中,登入個人生活日誌,只要點選一個時間就會出現相關的人事物,並訴說生命的過程 。