Aroussiak Gabrielian

Aroussiak Gabrielian is a PhD candidate in Media Arts + Practice at USC School Cinematic Arts. Her research utilizes expanded cinematic media to develop new ways of reading and visualizing the spatial, situational, temporal, and tactile phenomena of landscape. Trained as an architect and landscape architect, she is co-founder and director of foreground design agency, a transdisciplinary design practice in Los Angeles. She has practiced architecture and landscape architecture internationally and has taught at University of Pennsylvania, University of Toronto, and University of Southern California. In 2017-2018 she will be in residence at the American Academy in Rome as a Rome Prize Fellow.

no. 2, Roundtables, vol. 2June 17, 2017<June 17, 2017

Google Street View’s Projected Futures

Aroussiak Gabrielian

In this post, Aroussiak Gabrielian links Street View's aesthetics to extant cinematic techniques to explore the potential of its abstractions for telling new stories about the city’s possible futures.

no. 2, Roundtables, vol. 2June 5, 2017<June 5, 2017

The Narrative Landscape of Google Street View

Aroussiak Gabrielian

In this post, Aroussiak Gabrielian explores Google Street View as an experimental medium, asking how it offers us new narrative forms and new subjective possibilities for interacting with our environments.