Dave Colangelo & Zach Melzer

Dave Colangelo is Assistant Professor of Digital Creation and Communication in the School of Professional Communication (FCAD) at Ryerson University, Director, North America, of the Media Architecture Institute, and a founding member of Public Visualization Studio. His work as an artist, educator, and researcher focuses on urban media environments as sites for critical and creative engagements with the city, public art, and information. He is the author of The Building as Screen: A History, Theory, and Practice of Massive Media (Amsterdam University Press, 2020). @dcolangelo2 http://davecolangelo.com/

Zach Melzer obtained a PhD in Film & Moving Image Studies from Concordia University. His research looks at the intersections between screens, urban heritage, smart cities, and media architecture in order to investigate the regulations and infrastructures of moving image technologies and cultures in public urban spaces. His work has been published in the Canadian Journal of Film Studies, The Routledge Companion to Urban Media and Communication, Écranosphère, Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies, In Media Res, and Offscreen. He is currently a researcher at the Media History Research Centre and a member of the Media Architecture Institute. @ZachMelzer https://zachmelzer.wordpress.com/

Dossiers, no. 3, vol. 5August 14, 2020<August 27, 2020

Media and the Physically Distanced City

Dave Colangelo & Zach Melzer

In their introductory essay, dossier editors Dave Colangelo and Zach Melzer examine how the pandemic and BLM protests offer a lens into the makeup, visuality, and legibility of urban environments and their relationship with various forms of media.