Week 11 Readings

The final week’s topic is pervasive gaming, or play in urban space. Here’s a direct link. Looking forward to your responses, comments, and links to related media.

Readings:

• Manovich, L. “The Poetics of Augmented Space: The Art of Our Time” in Borries, F., Steffen Waltz and Matthias Bottger eds. Space Time Play Computer Games, Architecture and Urbanism: The Next Level. Boston: Birkhauser. pp.251-255, 312-315.
• Rheingold, H. “Life is not Completely a Game: Urban Space and Virtual Environments” in Borries, F., Steffen Waltz and Matthias Bottger eds. Space Time Play Computer Games, Architecture and Urbanism: The Next Level. Boston: Birkhauser. pp.251-255, 312-315.
• De Souza e Silva, Adriana and Larissa Hjorth. (2009) “Playful Urban Spaces: A Historical Approach to Mobile Games” in Simulation and Gaming (40)5. October 2009. pp. 602-625.

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Week 10 Readings

Dear all,

Here are the readings for week 10 (link). Looking forward to read your responses. Please also check your email for a note about the final project proposals.

• McCullough, M. (2004). Digital Ground: Architecture, Pervasive Computing, and Environmental Knowing. Cambridge: MIT Press. pp.171-191.
• Mitchell, W.J. (2003). Me++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City. Cambridge: MIT Press. pp.113-129,203-211.

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Week 9 – GPS Workshop

The GPS Units we used in class:

• Globalsat GPS receiver
• Magellan Explorist 210

• Digital+Media Equipment Library also has Garmin GPS 60 Handheld units which can be used via a serial cable and serial-to-usb adapter (both available upon request).

MAX/MSP/Jitter can be downloaded at cycling74.com/… for a 30 day trial and license dongles can be borrowed from DM equipment library. Please try to get familiarized with the interface looking at tutorials here:
cycling74.com/…

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Week 8 Readings

Here are this week’s readings. McQuire’s essay “Liquid Cities” is the only required reading for this week which I assume all of you will find useful and right on track with our previous discussions. The other one by Christine Boyer is optional. (link)

Please check your email for a note about the project review on Monday.

Looking forward to your responses!

Required:

• McQuire, S. (2008). The Media City: Media, Architecture and Urban Space. London: Sage Publications. pp. 87-110.

Optional:

• Boyer, M. C. (1996). Cybercities. New York: Princeton Architectural Press. pp. 45-71.

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Week 7 Readings

To better suit the trajectory of our discussion there there have been some changes in the reading list of the following week. We will continue to talk about cities in the digital age, now that we started going in that direction already. Here are the readings (link):

• Mitchell, W.J. (1999) E-topia: Urban life Jim – But not as we know it. Cambridge, MIT Press. pp.112-127.
• Virilio, P. “The Overexposed City” in Feher, M. and Sanford Kwinter eds. (1985) Zone 1-2: The Contemporary City. Zonebooks. pp.15-31.

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Philaplace – Urban History Mapping Project

Philaplace is a nice example that uses Google maps to present the urban history of a place. It just got launched:

“PhilaPlace is an interactive Web site, created by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, that connects stories to places across time in Philadelphia’s neighborhoods. PhilaPlace weaves stories shared by ordinary people of all backgrounds with historical records to present an interpretive picture of the rich history, culture, and architecture of our neighborhoods, past and present. The PhilaPlace Web site uses a multimedia format – including text, pictures, audio and video clips, and podcasts – and allows visitors to map their own stories in place and time. More than a Web site, PhilaPlace includes ongoing community programs and publications, from workshops for teachers, to trolley tours, and exhibits. PhilaPlace is an engaging, meaningful way to understand more about where we live, and will serve as an enduring record of our heritage.”

Adress: http://www.philaplace.org/

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Pixilerations 7 Festival in Providence – Call for Works

The deadline for proposals for the seventh annual Pixilerations Festival, that explores the state of media arts via events, exhibitions, installations and shows, has been extended to April 15, 2010. For more information go to www.pixilerations.org. You can find the call for works here:

Call for proposals

The festival will take place between September 30-October 10, 2010.

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Week 6 Readings

Here are the readings for week 6. The optional reading is on the sociological effects of cell-phones and it compares well with the last essay of the first reading which is about the technology of land-phones. link

Required:

• McLuhan, M. [1964](1994) Understanding Media, The Extensions of Man. The MIT Press. pp. 3-21, 41-47, 265-274

Optional:

• Geser, Hans. (2004) “Towards a Sociological Theory of the Mobile Phone.” University of Zurich

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Week 4 Readings

Here are the readings for Week 4. Please finish all of the required readings. You may read the optional readings if you have the time, but at least take a general look at them as well. A lot of the material covered there may provide useful inspiration and insight for your projects. Catherine D’Ignazio will be visiting us therefore her article is on the required readings list for this week. Please bring your comments questions and feedback for her. Here’s a direct link to the readings.

As usual, reading responses are due Sunday at 10pm on the urbandigitalsensorium wordpress site.

Thanks,
Gokce

Required:

• Calvino, I. (1972) Invisible Cities. pp. 5-23. 85-91.
• Howes, D. (2005) “Architecture of the Senses” in Zardini, M. ed. Sense of the City: An Alternate Approach to Urbanism. Lars Muller Publishers. pp. 322-331.
• Dignazio. C. (2009). “Art and Cartography” in Kitchin R, Thrift N (eds) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Volume 1. Oxford: Elsevier. pp 190–206.
  Link: http://www.ikatun.org/k/art_and_cartography.pdf

Optional:

• Rodaway, P. (1994) Sensuous Geographies. Routledge. pp. 3-38.
• Kinayoglu, G. (2009) “Sense and Sensation of Place” and “Visual Bias in Place Perception.” in Kinayoglu, G. The Role of Sound in the Making of a Sense of Place in Real, Virtual and Augmented Environments. Ph.D. Dissertation, UC Berkeley, December 2009. pp. 8-44.

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Week 3 Readings Posted

The readings for the 3rd week are posted on the digication site. Please post your reading responses here as replies to this post, or as individual posts (posts are better especially if you want to embed hyperlinks, or relevant visual material)Here’s a direct link to the readings.

Required:

• Borges, J.L. (1945) “The Aleph”, trans. Norman Thomas Di Giovanni
• Borges, J.L. (1946) “On Exactitude in Science”, trans. Andrew Hurley
• Sadler, S. (1998) “Formulary for a New Urbanism, Rethinking the City” in Sadler, S. The Situationist City. Cambridge: The MIT Press. pp 69-103.

Selective (Pick One):

• Thompson, N. (2009). “In Two Directions: Geography as Art, Art as Geography” in Thompson, N and Independent Curators International eds. Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography and Urbanism. New York: Melville House. pp 13-25.
• Dignazio. C. (2009). “Art and Cartography” in Kitchin R, Thrift N (eds) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Volume 1. Oxford: Elsevier. pp 190–206.
  Link: http://www.ikatun.org/k/art_and_cartography.pdf

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