Urban Inscriptions - Malcolm McCullough
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• must “MEDIA” mean REMOTENESS ?
The urbanism of electronic communications has seldom
been encouraging. For whether the word “media” implies
passive entertainments, global networking, production
software, or the attention economy of all of these, it does
tend to imply disembodiment; and that implies trouble for
space and place as we know them. But what happens when
media become embodied in access, spatial in operations,
and place-based in content? In particular, what happens
when information technology moves out beyond the
desktop into the sites and situations of everyday urban life?
What does it mean that content is something you do, not
something you are given, and where do you go to do that?
OBIE best of show 2007Source: The OBIE awards
Timeline: place-based media
A recently popular image in the flyposting debatesSource unknown
Literary society (ca. 1885)Henry Collins Brown
Physical components of pervasive computing
Five trends in urban computing
Components of ambient information
Information foraging on the derive
Cached communication
Four kinds of writing
Epigraphic reading in PersiaSource: Geoffrey Nunnberg
Sao Paulo to ban billboardsSource: www.worldchanging.com
Timeline: pollution
Press kit feature on airportsSource: OAAA
Press kit feature on airportsSource: OAAA
Removing soot, Penn Station Pittsburgh, (ca. 1948)Source: The Carnegie photo database
QUESTION # 2
“How much information is pollution, that something can be done about?"
(6)
0% -->
LITTLE
all information welcome
pollution just in the eyes of the beholder
(4)
<--100%
MUCH
toxic data smog!
Audience text-in pollThe Interactive City, ISEA07
QUESTION # 1
“Which activity bonds urban spaces together most effectively?"
(6)
SOCIETY:
conviviality
“third place”
public assembly
social navigation
presentation of self
(4)
COMMERCE:
(especially shopping)
Audience text-in pollThe Interactive City, ISEA07
Ambient media planning
Dimensions of urban markup
Toward a new Epigraphy
Water Bottle LabelSource: The Henry Ford (Museums)