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June 19, 2017<June 19, 2017

Sense and the City: Liam Young’s Speculative Cinema, Part II

by Holly Willis

In this second round of responses in the Experimental Media in the City roundtable, Holly Willis encourages us to consider how mediated cities and mediated selves provoke an ethics of the computational and the ethically mediated self, as opposed to an ethics of the visual.

June 17, 2017<June 17, 2017

Google Street View’s Projected Futures

by 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.

June 15, 2017<June 15, 2017

Demarginalizing New Media Maps

by Alison Wielgus

Alison Wielgus returns to the sites of the BAFC to view them through Google's digital maps and ask what still remains uncharted, and how mapping can be decoupled from older power structures in emerging media.

June 12, 2017<June 12, 2017

Experimental Media & the City: Part II

by Swagato Chakravorty

In this introduction to the second series of posts from the roundtable on experimental media in the city, Swagato Chakravorty contends that the intermediations between city and self have created a crisis of representation.

June 9, 2017<June 9, 2017

The Space Between: ‘Rethinking Canada 150: Networks and Nodes in Asian Canadian Visual Culture’

by Malini Guha

Malini Guha discusses a recent symposium on Asian Canadian identities and the spaces, nodes, and networks of diaspora.

June 8, 2017<June 13, 2017

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

by Joseph DeLeon

Joseph DeLeon continues his reporting on the proceedings of the 2017 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference with this recap of a panel discussion on media art in the city.

June 7, 2017<June 7, 2017

Sense and the City: Liam Young’s Speculative Cinema

by Holly Willis

Holly Willis explores Liam Young's "speculative cinema," showing how his work that integrates film, fiction, animation, marketing, games and documentary demonstrates an emergent cinematic form that defies generic boundaries whilst simultaneously reconfiguring the city.

June 5, 2017<June 5, 2017

The Narrative Landscape of Google Street View

by 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.

June 3, 2017<June 6, 2017

Animating Infrastructures

by Joseph DeLeon

Joseph DeLeon offers this report on the "Animating Infrastructures" panel at the 2017 Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference.

June 3, 2017<June 3, 2017

The Black Audio Film Collective’s Fragmented Cities

by Alison Wielgus

Alison Wielgus explores how the Black Audio Film Collective re-worked the techniques and ethics of classical city symphonies to produce politically engaged experimental works about the varied experiences of London's communities of color.

June 1, 2017<June 1, 2017

Experimental Media and The City: A Roundtable Introduction

by Swagato Chakravorty

In this reflection on and preview of the Roundtable on Experimental Media and the City, Swagato Chakravorty encourages the contributors think through what might be at stake in experimental media's relationship to the city and the built environment.