Screens in Public Space: Questions of Aesthetics and Access in a Moment of Social Distancing
Annie Dell’Aria discusses screen media’s potential to make both public space and private space—during times of social distancing—more porous.
Apparitions and Wormholes: Moving Image Artworks and Urban Porosity
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
The Urban Light Art Festival as Branding and Commons
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
Public Feeling: Rethinking Memorials and Monuments
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.