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 welcomepollution just in the eyes of the beholder

(4) <--100%

MUCHtoxic 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 navigationpresentation 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)