Seminar on the city, art and media technologies

The ability of digital media to add an extra layer to the cityscape characterizes the experience of the city as mobile phones, cameras, media facades and other interfaces diffuses into the urban scenery. In the urban interface we find lexical indexes linked to maps, links to other places and images of what used to be at a specific location, surveillance devices, etc. The seminar focuses on how and in what ways we can experience the city’s layers and the simultaneous view of (past, lost, virtual, future) information and a specific location – through artistic installations, urban games or architectural strategies.

Time and Place

Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 10.00-15.30, Kasernescenen, Langelandsgade 139

Programme

(IN ENGLISH)

10.00-10.15    Welcome & Introduction / Christian Ulrik Andersen (DUL)

10.15-11.00    Morten Breinbjerg - on 'haunted places' – control/power, representation, and design

11.00-12.00    Max Schneider - on soundscapes in interfaces and displays

LUNCH

(IN DANISH)

13.00-13.40    Lars Bo Løfgreen - on urban texting

13.45-14.20    Thomas Delman - on the use of interactive and digital (art) installations as tools for 'utopiatyping'

BREAK

14.30-15.00    Mads Rosendahl Thomsen - on presence and memory

15.00-15.30    Debate

Participants

Morten Breinbjerg, associate professor, Information Studies, DUL

Thomas Delman, partner in Kollision & Ph.D candidate, Aarhus School of Architecture

Lars Bo Løfgreen, Ph.D candidate, Information Studies, DUL

Max Schneider, Sound artist, Berlin

Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, associate professor, Dept. of Aesthetics

Arrangement: Christian Ulrik Andersen (IMV & DUL) og Mads Rosendahl Thomsen (IÆF)

Tags: aesthetics | architecture | cultural heritage | digital aesthetics | events | interface aesthetics | urbanity