23./24.Sep.05 - Amsterdam www.urbanscreens.org

Pink Noise by arts collective HeHe.org will be installed in Witte de Withstraat, Rotterdam on Sept. 10th, during the live event"Hands On Hands Off" organised by V2.

"Bruit rose" (Pink noise in English): The interaction of this work is based on visualising the ambient sounds in the environment aswel as the passerby. The light emmitting panels, usually used to divulge numerically formatted information, are instead detourne from this didatic function and serve as an animated visual, disengaged from all the gloss that usually occupies this urban advertising space.

V.I.B.E.
"Video in the Built Environment" explores the proliferation of video screens and projections and their impact on urban space. (2005)

TRANSMEDIA :29:59
Media art a year long on the video billboard at Dundas Square in Toronto. One minute video works broadcast 24/7 every half hour on the 29th and 59th minutes. (2005/2006)

The 59th Minute: Video Art on the Times Square NBC Astrovision screen. Videos are airing the last minute of every hour (ongoing).

Appendix: an anual outdoor artistic intervention located in an urban space - at unconventional spots for video projections and already existing electronic LED displays (since 2004).

OUTVIDEO: A anual art festival on the outdoor video screens network of "IgRek Cinema" in Ekaterinburg, Russia (since 2004)

: a r t . screen: Videoart on Infoscreens in Subways in NRW, trainstations and Airporttermianls in Germany, organised among others by [STRICTLY PUBLIC] (2000/2001/2002)

Going Underground: An international short film subway festival on TV screens in tube carriages of Berlins subway. The audience is asked to vote for the best film, using the internet, SMS or phone. (anual since 2002)

Makro Video and urban cycles: art screening inpublic space at the National Palace of Culture, Sofia organised by interSpace, Bulgaria (2000/2001)

Video as Urban Condition: a project exploring how video shapes urban experience

LOCOMOTION: Shortfilms screened in Hamburg on the subway infoscreens, busses and trainstations in Germany (2001/2004)

Inspired by the US WALK DONT WALK signs Karin An Rijlaarsdam made 2 huge blow ups with my own lyrics that change regularly, it's about love, seduction and loneliness.


(Amsterdam: Nov 2004 - July 2005)



Next stop: Technische Universiteit Eindhoven Oct 2005 - Febr 2006

This billboard is made of 12.148 aluminium pegs, varying in length. Each different length peg creates a different sized shadow. These create a grayscale image when the sun is coming out!


Thanks to Selene Kolman

The EXPO Plaza with the large EXPO Vision screen will provide a venue for interaction with people around the world utilizing IT and digital image technology.

Contents displayed will be among others the "Merry EXPO" project: Conceived in the belief that a smiling face is the ideal form of communication across national borders, it will collect “smiling messages” from faces around the world and displaying them to all....


Here some tech stuff about the screen and its sound system

"Hitachi, Ltd. developed a 13.1-inch monochrome electronic paper featuring a wireless LAN system and a secondary battery pack. The company is planning to place it on the market at a lower price than LCD panels in around April 2006, targeting applications such as signboards at public buildings...."

Urban Screens on Taxis: Ad Runner, uses "embedded GPS, ad server, and wireless web technologies to enable electronic taxi-top billboards to receive and display messages based on the exact time and a cab's exact location"

(via MIT Advertising Lab)

Imagine the scenarion that people are sitting in subways, parks and plazas watching their individual program fed by their mobilephone on their personal big screens... This really points out the advantage of the "common" urban screens on the experience of shared watching.


(via Tomorrow'sTrends)

Cheryl Gallaways project "FUSE - WEARABLE WRIST DISPLAY" at Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam looks at wearable screens bringing people into contact through sharing creativity. Two individual graphics merge by closeness of the devices...


Embrace-by Lisa Thomas and Jonathan Fitch is another concept for an interactive bracelet with little displays for shared experiences.

In Toronto "Them.ca" announced an interesting proposal, how to support financially the spread of alternative content on urban screens. An annual "BCBF" fee for billboard companies.

Year Zero One is pleased to announce the launch of a year long programme on the pedestrian level video billboard at Yonge-Dundas Square in Toronto. Beginning August 1st 2005, one minute video works will be broadcast 24/7 every half hour on the 29th and 59th minutes.

"LED dragon breathes fire into Japanese attraction: A 40 ft tower featuring two intertwining LED video displays is the highlight of a Japanese spa resort. Louis Brill describes the design and fabrication challenges involved in the project"

Cleverdis is organising three days of conference during Visual communication, 14-15-16 septembre in Paris. The european edition of this show will occured in 2006. 15th of september is devoted to the Administrations. The afternoon especially to the ways to manage a project and the technical solutions available on the market. The morning to an overview of the applications of digital signage in Administration and public areas. See the pdf for the first edition of the SMARTreport Digital signage. Currently a second edition is in preparartion, focussing more on outdoor solutions. For infos contact Raphaël Pinot

July 01 - August 13 2005
"JA II" is trying to 'invade' the advertising space of the network of the largest Russian provider of publicly-displays with 25 Russian words. They are "exclusively positive connotations as well as numerical values calculated using a formula". Education through Urban Screens?

Two artprojects by Nynke Deinema and Caroline de Royplace of the Stichting Tijdelijk Zicht.
1. March 2005: "Check die merrie", projections at the facade of the Universitylibrary in Amsterdam on the Koningsplein. A project about streetlanguage in Amsterdam. Streetlanguage was audible from garbage-boxes places on the Koningsplein in Amsterdam.












2. october 2002: "Alles wat je acherlaat neem je mee". At the facade of the asylumseekerscenter. The question: What is the most beloved thing you had to leave behind
when you had to move? Asked to asylumseekers children of the center and grownups in the neigherhood. The project was visible on the facade of the asylumseekerscenter in Amsterdam. A video triptych two weeks visible and audible from the outside.

This is a slightly different displaymethod for urban screens made by Jonathan den Breejen and Marenka Deenstra! A device which can transform any portrait shaped digital picture into a picture built out of 2700 table tennis balls in 6 grey tones. The 2,4m x 1,8m screen image is fully adaptable, within 20-30 minutes the machine shows a new image.

The BBCs interactive services group, asked IDEO to design a concept for a publicly visible environment showcasing the ongoing generation of their interactive services. The Street-level windows of the BBC’s central London offices were used as a series of portals. Within that space, a chat studio, a transmission control area, and a creative working space demonstrated the various interactive media services offered by BBCi.








See also the article by Jessie Scanlon : "If Walls Could Talk, Streets Might Join In"

M. Koch: Building Community Mirrors with Public Shared Displays. In: Proc.
eChallenges 2004, Vienna, Austria, Oct. 2004

Elizabeth F. Churchill, Les Nelson, Laurent Denoue: "Information Sharing
With Digital Community Bulletin Boards", published during the research project "Plasma Poster" at FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Palo Alto

Dynamo: A research project about interactive wall displays for community file sharing in public places at the Interact Lab, School of Cognitive & Computing Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton

A chapter in Adilkno's book "The Media Archive" from 1998, looking at public
screen visions in classical science fiction movies and the notion that they
can force the actual mass to passive behavior.... Finally at viewing
experiences of cinema and TV and in comparison observing the audience of
public screening events.
"The public screen alone can never launch an event; it would soon fall
victim to indifference..."