Urban Screens

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Urban Screens was an international conference, that was held in Amsterdam on September 30- October 1, 2005. Urban Screens investigated how the commercial use of outdoor screens can be broadened with cultural content. Urban Screens was organized by the INC in collaboration with Gerrit Rietveld Academy (Amsterdam), Department of Art and Public Space. Curator: Mirjam Struppek, Interactionfield Berlin. Click here for Urban Screens 2006, which will take place in Manchester. The conference is curated by Susanne Jaschko.

In this archive you will find all the documentation on the Urban Screens conference in Amsterdam.

websites

Official conference website

Urbanscreens.org
Mirjam Struppek’s urban screens project

Urban Screens 2006
Which took place in Manchester, and was curated by Susanne Jaschko.

Urban Screens 2008 will take place in Melbourne, October 3-8 2008 and is curated by Scott McQuire and Nikos Papastergiadis. The Multimedia Program has been developed by Mirjam Struppek.

publications

First Monday Special Issue on Urban Screens
Edited by Pieter Boeder and Mirjam Struppek

Conference audio & video documentation

Frank Abbott
Beaming and Streaming: Developing Infrastructure for an Urban Screen through the Creative Collaborations Project
video | audio

Roberta Alvarenga
(Tele)interventions in Cybrid Public Spaces

video | audio

Franck Ancel
Etre = Réseau: From scenography to planetary network
video | audio

Anthony Auerbach

Video as Urban Condition
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Florent Aziosmanoff
1er contact - a Festival of Interactive Art in Public Space
video | audio

Perry Bard
The Shape of Content on the Urban Screen
video | audio

Olga Barham
Commercial versus Public Service Applications
video | audio

Jeroen Boomgaard, Mirjam Struppek
Introduction Urban Screens ‘05
video | audio

Louis M. Brill
Urban Video Displays as the New Voice of Public Communications
video | audio

Vera Bühlmann
Intelligent Skin. Houses that Oikoborg
video | audio

Sabine Gebhardt Fink
The Signing Operations of the Schaulager Screenings
video | audio

Mike Gibbons
Two Years Public Space Broadcasting in the United Kingdom
video | audio

Christoph Kronhagel
Media Facades in the Context of Urban Scale
video | audio

Vladimir Krylov
Social and Cultural Aspects of Outdoor Video Technology
video | audio

Raina Kumra
Art vs. Advertising – Comparative Use of Corporate Screens for Video Art
video | audio

Karen Lancel
Stalk Show
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Peter Lavery
Integration of screens in architectural / urban design
video | audio

Jason Lewis
Cityspeak : From Private Expression to Public Performance
video | audio

Lev Manovich
Urban Media Surface: First Steps
video | audio

Scott McQuire
The Politics of Public Space in the Media City
video | audio

Jürgen Meier
Media-Facades: Use, Mutation and Technologies
video | audio

Julia Nevárez
Token screens or opportunity for difference? Art screens and the branding of the city
video | audio

Next Urban Screens
Feedback to Urban Screens ‘05
video | audio

Questions & Answers
Introduction / Keynote Lectures
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Shaping the Urban Mediascapes - Session 1
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Addressing the Social Value and Civic Culture through Participation - Session 2
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Opening the Commercial Use of Outdoor Screens - Session 3
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Experiences with New Content Creation and Curation - Session 5
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Florian Resatsch
Future Urban Screens - New Concepts for Urban Screens
video | audio

Jan Schuijren
Curating the Zuidas Urban Screen
video | audio

Arseny Sergeev
Outvideo - International Videoart Festival in Public Spaces
video | audio

Elizabeth Sikiaridi
Soft Urbanism: Public Urban Media
video | audio

Wolfgang Strauss
Energie_Passagen [Energy_Passages] – Reading and (De)Scribing the City
video | audio

Kate Taylor
Audiences on the Move - The Bigger Picture
video | audio

Valentin Tomic
The Art of Interaction, Love Connection and Global Culture Broadcast
video | audio

Adrian Velicescu
The Relation Between Large Scale LED Screens, Content Production and Technology
video | audio

Linda Wallace
Architectural Media Space
video | audio