City/States: revealing urban space and place
A day-long event hosted by the Bradford Media School reflecting on philosophy, photography and psychogeography in the urban experience. Featuring brand new work by the Bradford Grid Project.
Wednesday 21st July
Impressions Gallery
Centenary Square, Bradford
11:00am – 4:00pm
Further details: Patrick Allen, Urbanism and Visual Culture, Bradford Media School, University of Bradford, [...]
Archive for category Urban Screens
City/States Symposium
Jul 16
Architecture and Cinema
Feb 23
Architecture and Cinema
A one-day Symposium
Saturday 20th March 2010, 10am-6pm
‘On Location’, National Media Museum, Bradford
Programme
10.00- Welcome refreshments and Introduction
10.15
David B. Clarke (Swansea U) – ‘Betaville – or, whatever happened to utopia?’
11.00
Murray Grigor (filmmaker) – ‘Space in Time: Filming Architecture’
11.45 – Tea/Coffee Break
12.00
Patrick Allen (U of Bradford) – TBC
12.45 – Lunch (Provided)
13.45
Mark Tewdwr-Jones (UCL) [...]
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. [...]
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]
A one-day workshop, 26th June 2009
The National Media Museum
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, [...]
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 [...]