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Media Art and the Urban Environment

Engendering Public Engagement with Urban Ecology

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Editors:
  1. Francis T. Marchese

    1. Department of Computer Science, Pace University, New York, USA

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  • Highlights the role of artists as innovators and agents of technological change
  • Presents artists’ viewpoints, complementing and expanding upon perspectives on urban engagement from technologists
  • Provides a truly interdisciplinary discussion of a topic at the intersection of art, science, technology and culture

Part of the book series: Future City (FUCI, volume 5)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Toward an Ecological Urbanism: Public Engagement in Contemporary Art Practice

    • Maria Michails
    Pages 1-46

  3. Exploring Environmental Stewardship Through Data-Driven Practices

    • Tega Brain, Jodi Newcombe
    Pages 47-61

  4. Experiential Ecologies: A Transdisciplinary Framework for Embodiment and Simulacra

    • Grisha Coleman, Daragh Byrne
    Pages 63-84

  5. Uncultivated: An Evolutionary Drama in the Urban Environment

    • Lynn Cazabon
    Pages 85-97

  6. Alone Together in the Dark: Horror-Based Artworks and Fan Participation in Urban and Extra-Urban Space

    • Jillian McDonald
    Pages 99-116

  7. Mobile Maps of Chameleonic Cities: Urban Cartographies and Methodological Procedures and Experiences

    • Pedro Marra, Carmen Aroztegui Massera
    Pages 117-138

  8. Electric Signs

    • Alice Arnold
    Pages 139-154

  9. Overload/Absence: The Collapse of Space to Surface in Representations of Urban Space

    • Annette Weintraub
    Pages 155-175

  10. Design as Topology: U-City

    • Ulrik Ekman
    Pages 177-201

  11. The Emergent City: 2004–2012

    • Stanza
    Pages 203-224

  12. The Art of Urban Engagement

    • Francis T. Marchese
    Pages 225-246

  13. Our Place on That Wall: Community Online Art Projects

    • Vaughn Whitney Garland
    Pages 247-266

  14. Digitized Street Art

    • Brian A. Brown
    Pages 267-284

  15. Solar Cycle 24: 15 Nightly Projections

    • Malin Abrahamsson
    Pages 285-293

  16. Erratum to: Chapter 14 Solar Cycle 24: 15 Nightly Projections

    • Malin Abrahamsson
    Pages E1-E1

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 295-299
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About this book

This text formally appraises the innovative ways new media artists engage urban ecology. Highlighting the role of artists as agents of technological change, the work reviews new modes of seeing, representing and connecting within the urban setting. The book describes how technology can be exploited in order to create artworks that transcend the technology’s original purpose, thus expanding the language of environmental engagement whilst also demonstrating a clear understanding of the societal issues and values being addressed. Features: assesses how data from smart cities may be used to create artworks that can recast residents’ understanding of urban space; examines transformations of urban space through the reimagining of urban information; discusses the engagement of urban residents with street art, including collaborative community art projects and public digital media installations; presents perspectives from a diverse range of practicing artists, architects, urban planners and critical theorists.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Computer Science, Pace University, New York, USA

    Francis T. Marchese

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Media Art and the Urban Environment

  • Book Subtitle: Engendering Public Engagement with Urban Ecology

  • Editors: Francis T. Marchese

  • Series Title: Future City

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15153-3

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-15152-6Published: 12 May 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-35696-9Published: 13 October 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-15153-3Published: 01 April 2015

  • Series ISSN: 1876-0899

  • Series E-ISSN: 1876-0880

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 299

  • Number of Illustrations: 138 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Urban Ecology, Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities, Arts

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