The Cyberworlds ‘09 paper – now in preparation – continues to develop the same themes that have come out of the paper presented at the MeCCSA Conference in January 2009. It continues the case study on Locality in Augmented Public Space but is presented for a different audience and for a different set of research objective. [...]
Archive for category Augmented Public Space
This paper looks at the growing phenomenon of large-scale LED screen in prominent city centre locations and asks fundamental questions about the nature of the spaces and locations in which they are placed. In this investigation three key themes come to light that have a critical impact on the experience of urban space:
• The mediation of place [...]
Cyberworlds ‘09
Apr 17
Allen (2009) “Place and Locality in Augmented Public Space: a case study on the site specific nature of Urban Screens”
This link goes to the latest draft of the paper submitted to Cyberworlds ‘09.
[7-11 September 2009, University of Bradford, UK, Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society and organised in-cooperation with ACM - link to conference website]
Allen (2009) “Dwell-Time: Urban Screens, Ambient Media and Augmented Public Space.”
This link goes the presentation slides for the MeCCSA 2009 Conference (pdf format), hosted by the University of Bradford and the National Media Museum, January, 2009.
Allen, P. (2008) ‘Framing, Locality and the Body in Augmented Public Space’, in Aurigi and De Cindio (eds.) Augmented Urban Spaces, Ashgate, UK.
The mediation of place and locality is one of the key aspects of the advent of urban screens especially in the way that they have been deployed throughout major city centres the UK. Their site specific qualities, for example, the physical location of the screens (location and proximity to key features in public space, architecture, [...]
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 [...]