Joseph Clement at Film, Media, and Toronto’s Built Environment
Kate Lawrie Van de VenOur coverage of “Film, Media, and Toronto’s Built Environment” continues with a presentation from filmmaker and architect Joseph Clement.
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Our coverage of “Film, Media, and Toronto’s Built Environment” continues with a presentation from filmmaker and architect Joseph Clement.
In the second part of our Visualizing Spatial Injustice Q&A, the symposium organizers spoke to the London-based artist and filmmaker Miranda Pennell about her work…
The organizers of Kent’s recent Visualising Spatial Injustice conference reflect on it and interview one of their keynote speakers, Alberto Toscano.
[Ed. note: this post is part of a Student Voices section on Hong Kong, Shanghai, cities, screens, and spectacle. For more background on the…
[Ed. note: this post is part of a Student Voices section on Hong Kong, Shanghai, cities, screens, and spectacle. For more background on the…
In this essay, Madeline Dippel, a student at Indiana University, considers how public screens shape architecture and engagement, particularly when the spectacular lights of the screens are “turned off” creating both sensibilities of enchantment and disenchantment.
In this essay, Keenan Lacy-Rhodes, a student at Indiana University, discusses the ways in which large public screens communicate and constitutes a global, commercial elite, further exacerbating inequalities within Hong Kong and Shanghai.
In this essay, Maggie Farwig, a student at Indiana University, considers the ways in which screens manifest in the practices of everyday life in both ordinary and spectacular ways, creating both connections and disconnections and blurring relations between public and private.
In this essay, Celia Grubba, a student from Indiana University, discusses the ways in which public screens position and constitute China as global and cosmopolitan.
In this essay, Calvin Badger, a student at Indiana University, analyzes the extent to which individuals can express agency vis a vis public screens in Shanghai and Hong Kong, considering the ways in which those screens are bound up with relations of power in the city.
In this essay, Naomi Farahan, a student at Indiana University, analyzes ways in which public screens in Shanghai and Hong Kong work as forms of enchantment, questioning precisely for whom this enchantment is intended.
Stephanie DeBoer introduces a new installment of Student Voices by situating her students’ essays on Hong Kong and Shanghai in discussions of public screens, global publics, and the dispositif.
In this essay, Kyle Winkel, a student at Indiana University, considers the ways in which advertisers utilize light art and technology as a way to captivate increasingly desensitized passerby in public screen spectacles in urban Hong Kong.
In this essay, Myalisa Miroballi, a student at Indiana University, discusses the ways in which screen culture pervades the streets of Hong Kong and Shanghai in ways that constitute the cities as aspirational global consumer hubs.
Our coverage of “Film, Media, and Toronto’s Built Environment” continues with a presentation from Jane Corkin, founder of the Corkin Gallery.
In this installment of Opening the Canon, Robert Porter argues for a reconsideration of the Situationist International through the work of lesser-known member Raoul Vaneigem.
In this essay, Cara Singell, a student at Indiana University, discusses the varying degrees of “publicness” of contemporary public screens in Hong Kong, suggesting that screens vary from “partially-obsolete publicness,” “semi-publicness,” to “true/pure publicness.”
In this essay, Kyle McClarney, a student at Indiana University, explores the ways in which public screens become “integrated spectacles” in their environments in Hong Kong and Shanghai.
Caitlin Bruce examines the graffiti practices of a legal graffiti program in León, a city in central Mexico. Through her discussion of recent civic events, policies, celebrations, and news coverage dedicated to the program, Bruce shows how the international is a horizon of possibility, but also a looming constraint for the practice of public art.
In this installment of our continuing series of conversations with authors of new books on cities and global cities, reviews editor Noelle Griffis talks with Nolwenn Mingant, who co-authored and edited Reconceptualising Film Policies (Rutgers University Press, 2017) with Cecilia Tirtaine.
Sharon Albert & Amy Corbin end this issue with a discussion of the integrative assignments they designed around immigration and migration for their linked courses.