The Media City: Media, Architecture and Urban Space

McQuire, Scott

doi:10.4135/9781446269572

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“…The video of cooperative work between Señor Ok, Mito, and Jim Pluk (Pluk, 2014a) articulates the intra-action of the multiplicity city, the silencing - deterritorialization of multiple self-proposed borders, and shifting spatialities of urban art (Cresswell, 1992; Light et al, 2012). New media further facilitate such boundary-blurring and expand the meaning of graffiti, its audience, community, and the media of communication (Arango Bran, 2015; Jenkins et al, 2016; Light et al, 2012; MacDowall & de Souza, 2018; McQuire, 2008; Ross et al, 2017). Photography and video both register the stages of graffiti and accentuate its fluid and mobile nature.…”

Section: Silencing = Deterritorializationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reading the Paintings—Watching the Poems: Toward the Post-Media Inquiry With Networked City Textualities

Golovátina-Mora

2022

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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The article explores rhizomatic poetic practices of Medellín-based graffiti artist Señor Ok. His work is the city revealed as a relational, multidimensional texture. It transforms striated urban space to smooth by bringing other meanings from the periphery to the surface and decentralizing the dominant image of the city. I look at his work as poetry as an entanglement of his relationship and his daily life in the city, in the country, in the broader world. I argue that as an assemblage that forms assemblages within the urban textures, his art becomes methodology for critical non-representational affective inquiry of urban spaces.

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Section: Silencing = Deterritorializationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reading the Paintings—Watching the Poems: Toward the Post-Media Inquiry With Networked City Textualities

Golovátina-Mora

2022

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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“…22 After the initial interest from McLuhan (1964McLuhan ( , 1988, buildings and cities did not become a central concern for media theory (but see Kittler and Griffin, 1996). As multisensory and mixed media environments, cities and architecture have re-entered the media theory landscape only recently (McQuire, 2008). Part of the reason for their return is the rise of ubiquitous and pervasive computing in smart cities.…”

Section: Architecture and Citiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Enacting Media. An Embodied Account of Enculturation Between Neuromediality and New Cognitive Media Theory

Fingerhut

2021

Front. Psychol.

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This paper argues that the still-emerging paradigm of situated cognition requires a more systematic perspective on media to capture the enculturation of the human mind. By virtue of being media, cultural artifacts present central experiential models of the world for our embodied minds to latch onto. The paper identifies references to external media within embodied, extended, enactive, and predictive approaches to cognition, which remain underdeveloped in terms of the profound impact that media have on our mind. To grasp this impact, I propose an enactive account of media that is based on expansive habits as media-structured, embodied ways of bringing forth meaning and new domains of values. We apply such habits, for instance, when seeing a picture or perceiving a movie. They become established through a process of reciprocal adaptation between media artifacts and organisms and define the range of viable actions within such a media ecology. Within an artifactual habit, we then become attuned to a specific media work (e.g., a TV series, a picture, a text, or even a city) that engages us. Both the plurality of habits and the dynamical adjustments within a habit require a more flexible neural architecture than is addressed by classical cognitive neuroscience. To detail how neural and media processes interlock, I will introduce the concept of neuromediality and discuss radical predictive processing accounts that could contribute to the externalization of the mind by treating media themselves as generative models of the world. After a short primer on general media theory, I discuss media examples in three domains: pictures and moving images; digital media; architecture and the built environment. This discussion demonstrates the need for a new cognitive media theory based on enactive artifactual habits—one that will help us gain perspective on the continuous re-mediation of our mind.

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“…Media architecture gains widespread recognition for the positive impact on city-dwellers' appreciation of public space and urban life [18,68,74], with cases including cultural venues, corporate buildings, temporary constructions, plazas and transport hubs, and gradually also branching into the residential building sector [1, 22,30]. The current portfolio provides unique angles for research on a broad range of themes, including human-computer interaction [10,16,71], architectural and urban design [6,29], street and urban lighting [31,49] and digital place-making [17,44].…”

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The Business Case for Media Architecture: Modelling Project Benefits to Justify Investment

Wouters

Wohlgezogen

Halskov

2021

Media Architecture Biennale 20

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A growing portfolio of global media architecture projects and sustained research interest in the domain suggest that the discipline is here to stay. With practical knowledge becoming easily accessible to clients, architects and urban planners, we notice a shift from traditional advertising screens to integrated contextaware installations. The challenge now becomes to understand investment return of media architecture in order to ensure ongoing support by clients and funders. In this paper we study The Digital Bricks, a 208 megapixel media façade integrated within a university building. We describe the project vision, engagement strategy and design outcome, and analyse in detail the business case for the project. We share considerations to support development of business cases for media architecture projects that favour engagement, cultural and innovation capacity over financial returns. As the discipline matures, our insights will help in the endeavour to convince clients to invest in media architecture that inspires and engages audiences.CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → HCI theory, concepts and models; • Applied computing → Architecture (buildings); Marketing;

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The Media City: Media, Architecture and Urban Space

Cited by 205 publications

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Reading the Paintings—Watching the Poems: Toward the Post-Media Inquiry With Networked City Textualities

Reading the Paintings—Watching the Poems: Toward the Post-Media Inquiry With Networked City Textualities

Enacting Media. An Embodied Account of Enculturation Between Neuromediality and New Cognitive Media Theory

The Business Case for Media Architecture: Modelling Project Benefits to Justify Investment

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