The Building as Screen
A History, Theory, and Practice of Massive Media
Published on 16. December 2019
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-94-6298-949-8 (ISBN)
Description
The Building as Screen: A History, Theory, and Practice of Massive Media describes, historicizes, theorizes, and creatively deploys massive media -- a set of techno-social assemblages and practices that include large outdoor projections, programmable architectural facades, and urban screens -- in order to better understand their critical and creative potential. Massive media is named as such not only because of the size and subsequent visibility of this phenomenon but also for its characteristic networks and interactive screen and cinema-like qualities. Examples include the programmable lighting of the Empire State Building and the interactive projections of Montreal's Quartier des spectacles, as well as a number of works created by the author himself. This book argues that massive media enables and necessitates the development of new practices of expanded cinema, public data visualization, and installation art and curation that blend the logics of urban space, monumentality, and the public sphere with the aesthetics and affordances of digital information and the moving image.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Academic
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
51 s/w Abbildungen
51 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
376 gr
ISBN-13
978-94-6298-949-8 (9789462989498)
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Person
Dave Colangelo is Professor of Digital Experience Design in the School of Design at George Brown College, Director, North America, of the Media Architecture Institute, and Co-Founder of Public Visualization Studio.
Content
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Chapter 1: Introducing Massive Media
- From the Top
- Why Massive Media?
- A Brief History of the Public Sphere, Monumentality, and Media
* The Most Advanced Site of Struggle: The Public Sphere
* Looking Up Together: Monumentality
* A Modern Monument for the Modern Masses
* Space and Media
* Accelerated Rituals
* Reverie Amidst the Real
* Entering Supermodernism
- How This Book Works
Chapter 2: Experiments in Large-scale Projection and the (New) New Monumentality
- Moving Images
- A Short history of the Moving Image in Public Space
- Architecture, Expanded Cinema, and the New Monumentality
- The Image Mill
* Superimposition and Massive Media: Super Imposing
* Spatial Montage: Extra Diegetic
* Dispositif and Apparatus: Staging the City
- McLarena: Recentring the Audience
* Participation: Don't Just Sit There and Watch
* Place Branding and Theatricality
- A New (New) Monumentality?
- Experiments in Public Projection
* 30 moons many hands
* The Line
- A Perceptual Laboratory for Popular Needs and Aspirations
Chapter 3: The Empire State Building and the Roles of Low-Resolution Media Facades in a Data Society
- This Building is on Fire
- A Short History of the Empire State Building
* Colours and Meanings
- Understanding Contemporary Dimensions of Public Data Visualizations
- The Empire State Building as Monumental Public Data Visualization
- Experiments in Public Data Visualization
* E-TOWER
* In The Air, Tonight
- Temporary Intensities and Collective Conversations in Supermodern, Relational Space
Chapter 4: Curating Massive Media
- Changing Spaces
- A Short History of Public Screen Practice
- Massive Media and Public Art
- What People Have in (The) Common
- Connecting Cities
- Streaming Museum
- Curating the Ryerson Image Arts Building
- Connecting Sites and Streams
Chapter 5: When Buildings Become Screens
- Dancing with Buildings
- Tactics and Strategies
- More Massive, More Media
Bibliography
Index
List of Illustrations
Chapter 1: Introducing Massive Media
- From the Top
- Why Massive Media?
- A Brief History of the Public Sphere, Monumentality, and Media
* The Most Advanced Site of Struggle: The Public Sphere
* Looking Up Together: Monumentality
* A Modern Monument for the Modern Masses
* Space and Media
* Accelerated Rituals
* Reverie Amidst the Real
* Entering Supermodernism
- How This Book Works
Chapter 2: Experiments in Large-scale Projection and the (New) New Monumentality
- Moving Images
- A Short history of the Moving Image in Public Space
- Architecture, Expanded Cinema, and the New Monumentality
- The Image Mill
* Superimposition and Massive Media: Super Imposing
* Spatial Montage: Extra Diegetic
* Dispositif and Apparatus: Staging the City
- McLarena: Recentring the Audience
* Participation: Don't Just Sit There and Watch
* Place Branding and Theatricality
- A New (New) Monumentality?
- Experiments in Public Projection
* 30 moons many hands
* The Line
- A Perceptual Laboratory for Popular Needs and Aspirations
Chapter 3: The Empire State Building and the Roles of Low-Resolution Media Facades in a Data Society
- This Building is on Fire
- A Short History of the Empire State Building
* Colours and Meanings
- Understanding Contemporary Dimensions of Public Data Visualizations
- The Empire State Building as Monumental Public Data Visualization
- Experiments in Public Data Visualization
* E-TOWER
* In The Air, Tonight
- Temporary Intensities and Collective Conversations in Supermodern, Relational Space
Chapter 4: Curating Massive Media
- Changing Spaces
- A Short History of Public Screen Practice
- Massive Media and Public Art
- What People Have in (The) Common
- Connecting Cities
- Streaming Museum
- Curating the Ryerson Image Arts Building
- Connecting Sites and Streams
Chapter 5: When Buildings Become Screens
- Dancing with Buildings
- Tactics and Strategies
- More Massive, More Media
Bibliography
Index