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no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 5February 27, 2020

Apparitions and Wormholes: Moving Image Artworks and Urban Porosity

By Annie Dell'Aria

[Ed. note: this post is part of a Roundtable discussion on “Porousness and Cities.” For more background on the discussion and to view other posts in the series, see here.]

Urban porosity denies hard boundaries or enclosures, understanding …

Deep Dives, no. 1, vol. 3February 28, 2018

The Urban Light Art Festival as Branding and Commons

By Annie Dell'Aria

The modernist imagination often filled the city of the future with an abundance of nocturnal urban lights. Massive screens, searchlights, illuminated facades, and other electric lights crowd the mise-en-scene of science fiction films and speculative renderings of the metropolis of …

Institutional Memory, no. 2, vol. 2June 8, 2017

Media Art and Urban Screens: Locating Points and Routes of Comparison and Practice

By Joseph DeLeon

[Ed. note: this post is part of a series on urban-centered research presented at the 2017 meeting of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Readers interested in this particular topic would do well to visit the roundtable…

no. 5, Roundtables, vol. 1November 15, 2016

Back to the City

By Zlatan Krajina

[Ed. note: this post is part of a roundtable discussion on “The Urban as Emergent Key Concept for Media Theory.” For more background on the discussion and to view other posts in the series, see here.]

The …