Hijacking all Screens
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This is a link to a white paper I wrote about new media surfaces, art, branding and sponsorship in urban environments and presented at the Urban Screens conference in Amsterdam in 2005 at Club 11.
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/special11_2/kumra/index.html
Abstract: By tracking the use of non-traditional forms of outdoor advertising in static media there is a strong indicator for time based media (video, animation, interactive and generative video arts) to take a leading role in broadcasting art while serving the goals of the corporations that own these screens. Apart from the initial use of the “video billboard” in commercial and advertising based applications, the city is responding to its new media skin with more creative and interactive executions. Case studies in this paper document some of the first experiments utilising video at the urban screen level and show how the press and public relations value of these projects is more beneficial to the advertiser and the community than spending on traditional advertising.
Harvard/Koolhaas: Project on the City Moscow
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During my final semester at the Harvard GSD, I was one of a handful of selected researchers to co-curate a show on Russian 1960’s and ’70s Archictecture and Urbanism in Moscow called Utopian?
The show was in conjunction with the Russian government and scheduled to take place at the state run MUAR, the Schusev Museum of Architecture.
