The opening scenes of Ridley Scott’s film Bladerunner (1982) - oft cited for its portrayal of Los Angeles in a starkly post-modern future world – provide a fictional impression of what, if taken to an extreme, augmented spaces might look like in the future. Harvey (1990, p. 308) discussed this film as both a visual [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Introduction
There has been a significant impact on the visual appearance and experience of the urban environment as a consequence of the emergence of augmented public space. What follows is an attempt to capture at least some of the reality of this transformation in the inherent structure of urban spaces, where the virtual forms inherent in [...]
A Proposition and Three Scenarios
Proposition: A new form of public performance and event is available when we consider the combination of media-rich content created in an asynchronous, remote virtual manner – now a natural part of, so called Web 2.0 technologies (skype, facebook, youtube etc) – with the display of media content on large urban [...]
Urban Screens, Ambient Media and Augmented Public Space
Abstract
Research into “Augmented Public Space” attempts to formalize how new media technologies are superimposed onto the built environment (Manovich 2006, Allen2008). It is in this context that new research on the consumption of media texts and a wide variety of media forms – including public art – that [...]