Screens in Public Space: Questions of Aesthetics and Access in a Moment of Social Distancing

Annie Dell'Aria

Annie Dell'Aria is Assistant Professor of Art History at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Her research concerns the intersection of contemporary art, screen media, and public space. She has published in Moving Image Review and Art Journal (MIRAJ), Public Art Dialogue, Afterimage, Millennium Film Journal, International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, and other venues and presented at SCMS and CAA. She is currently working on a monograph, The Moving Image as Public Art: Sidewalk Spectators and City Screens. She holds a PhD from The Graduate Center, CUNY in New York and currently lives in Cincinnati.

no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 5March 16, 2020<January 27, 2023

Screens in Public Space: Questions of Aesthetics and Access in a Moment of Social Distancing

Annie Dell'Aria

Annie Dell’Aria discusses screen media’s potential to make both public space and private space—during times of social distancing—more porous.

no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 5February 27, 2020<October 13, 2021

Apparitions and Wormholes: Moving Image Artworks and Urban Porosity

Annie Dell'Aria

Annie Dell'Aria shows how illuminations and projections move through the fluid, living skin of the built environment, parting the boundaries between public and private space

Deep Dives, no. 1, vol. 3February 28, 2018<March 2, 2018

The Urban Light Art Festival as Branding and Commons

Annie Dell'Aria

In this Deep Dive, Annie Dell'Aria looks to Cincinnati's recent Blink light festival to explore how such illuminations are used to define cities and the urban experience for residents

no. 4, Trends, vol. 2October 18, 2017<October 18, 2017

Public Feeling: Rethinking Memorials and Monuments

Annie Dell'Aria

Beyond acting as lightning rod for continued social and political divisions today, might there also be other cultural shifts related to monuments and memorials in public space at play? Recent literature on the contemporary memorial landscape from the field of art history engages with the shifting terrain of public feeling and performative utterances in the increasingly mediated contemporary city, analyzing both its pitfalls and its strengths in countering the presumed monolithic power of the monument.