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17 September 2008
News on the USM08 Public Art&Events Program
Urban Screens Melbourne - Outdoor Program
3-8 October 2008
We have now more details about the public Art&Events Program of USM08 available online. USM08 will showcase creative experiments on urban screens around the topics of today’s communities or water. The program is experimenting with a range of different content suitable for urban screens and is programmed to create a lively event enjoyable for a diverse public audience. It consist of four elemets:
- Multimedia Program
- Film Program
- Joint Broadcasting
- Public Poster Sessions
24 August 2008
Public Testscreenings 30.08. - Media Facades Festival
The Media Facades Festival Berlin 2008 presents:
First public testscreening will happen on the rearprojection facade of the Collegium Hungaricum Berlin on the August 30 2008, starting after dawn. We will present first selected artworks produced in the framework of the Media Facades Festival. The final Urban Screenings will take place from October 18 - November 3 2008 on four media facades in the center of Berlin. 24 meda artists and interaction designer will gain temporary use of the facades and one interactive city terminal ito explore their cultural, political and social roles.08 July 2008
Urban Screens Melbourne 3-8 October 2008
*Collage of Fed Square's large Urban Screen and the unique design of the plaza
Urban Screens Melbourne 08 (USM08) is the third international conference and exhibition of urban screens, following on from the inaugural conference in Amsterdam in 2005 and Manchester in 2007.
The Mobile Publics conference addresses the themes of art, technology and public space, public broadcasting, strategies for urban regeneration, and cross-cultural public networks in the context of Urban Screens. A dynamic outdoor multimedia public program will take place around Federation Square, a unique place where various media tools have been incorporated into a modern public space. It will demonstrate the wide range of possible content for urban screens, ranging from public discussions, live streaming, film, video and animation programs, VJ sets, and interactive art.
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22 February 2008
Mediafacades Festival, Berlin 2008
Myths and Potentials of Media Architectures and Urban Screens
Berlin, October / November 2008
The MEDIAFACADE FESTIVAL BERLIN 2008 builds on the successful international Mediaarchitecture Conference held in London in 2007 and will feature an architecture exhibition, a conference and urban screenings on five media facades. The festival will explore the integration of social media and images into facade structures as communicative element and its effect on urban space. It will be the beginning of a long-term urban screens network with the aim to coordinate a creative program for architectural digital surfaces in Berlin.
This Festival is initiated by Public Art Lab and the International Urban Screens Association, in collaboration with Media Architecture Group, Vienna.
21 February 2008
Preparing for Urban Screens Melbourne 2008
In a showcase of international Urban Screen initiatives, Our Friends Are Electric introduces the concept of urban screens to the Melbourne audience in anticipation for the next Urban Screens Conference 3rd-8th October 2008.
From the subways of Paris to electronic billboards in cities such as Toronto, Berlin and Amsterdam, Our Friends Are Electric is a series of projects created specifically for public screens throughout the world. The series will include a range of video art programs in addition to individual artist initiatives created from collective, worldwide contributions.
This project, curated by Kerrie-Dee Johns and Mirjam Struppek, is presented by Federation Square and the International Urban Screens Association - a network of international collaborators ,officially launched during Urban Screens Melbourne 08.18 October 2007
Manchester Urban Screens Screenings
Manchester Urban Screens provided an interesting set of 3 differently positioned Urban Screens for public Art screenings for 4 days, October 11.-14. The temporary LED Screen at Urbis, Cathedral Gardens served as creative backdrop for peoples engagement with the screenings like the project "Flag Metamorphoses" and "Circulez Y’A Rien A Voir". "D.I.Y Ballroom" inspired amateur dancers to take over the floor spontaneously as feathers and bow ties were handed out.
"Man with a Movie Camera" is continuously inviting people to send in their own interpretations of the Vertov classic, which are juxtaposed with scenes from the original and was first shown at Manchester Urban Sreens.
"A Wall is a Screen" took the viewer onto a citytour with its mobile projection equipment, stopping at previously unnoticed locations for the screening of localised footage.
More images from Michelle on Flickr
"Man with a Movie Camera" is continuously inviting people to send in their own interpretations of the Vertov classic, which are juxtaposed with scenes from the original and was first shown at Manchester Urban Sreens.
"A Wall is a Screen" took the viewer onto a citytour with its mobile projection equipment, stopping at previously unnoticed locations for the screening of localised footage.
More images from Michelle on Flickr
08 September 2007
The launch of the Urban Screen at Zuidas
The Virtual Museum Zuidas and SKOR finally launched the urban screen at Zuidas, Amsterdam on October 5, 2007: CASZUIDAS - MOVING IMAGES IN PUBLIC SPACE is starting with highlights of the programme along with a selection of TheOneMinuteVideos and portraits of people in the Zuidas made by students of the Sandberg Institute will be shown. Every day from 6 a.m. to midnight, CASZuidas will show work from (inter)nationally known artists and promising young talent, curated by Jan Schuijren.
11 July 2007
Media Architecture Conference 2007
I'm currently involved as cocurator in this exciting event
On 11th and 12th September Media Architecture 2007 will take place at Central Saint Martins Innovation in central London. Organised by Media Architecture Group in Vienna, the conference will bring together international speakers from the architecture, planning and media communities for the first time to address the increasing integration of new display technologies for building construction. The huge impact of this development for building design and the urban environment will be explored from both theoretical and practical implementation perspectives by leaders in the field. The conference takes place at the same and is co-organised with PLASA, the international lighting exhibition at Earls Court, London.
Speakers & curators include:
Joachim Sauter, Bart Lootsma, Ludger Hovestadt, Realities United, Andrew Shoben, Kari Jormakka, David Cunningham, Mark Dorrian, Hermann Eisenköck, Patricia Austin, Tim Pritlove, Peter Cornwell, Kathrin Kur, Andreas Rumpfhuber, Oliver Schürer, Mirjam Struppek, Jim Thrower, Gernot Tscherteu
On 11th and 12th September Media Architecture 2007 will take place at Central Saint Martins Innovation in central London. Organised by Media Architecture Group in Vienna, the conference will bring together international speakers from the architecture, planning and media communities for the first time to address the increasing integration of new display technologies for building construction. The huge impact of this development for building design and the urban environment will be explored from both theoretical and practical implementation perspectives by leaders in the field. The conference takes place at the same and is co-organised with PLASA, the international lighting exhibition at Earls Court, London.
Speakers & curators include:
Joachim Sauter, Bart Lootsma, Ludger Hovestadt, Realities United, Andrew Shoben, Kari Jormakka, David Cunningham, Mark Dorrian, Hermann Eisenköck, Patricia Austin, Tim Pritlove, Peter Cornwell, Kathrin Kur, Andreas Rumpfhuber, Oliver Schürer, Mirjam Struppek, Jim Thrower, Gernot Tscherteu
07 February 2007
Tag a Tower in Rotterdam
7.2.-10.2. 2007 The Graffiti Research Lab takes conrol of the KPN Building, one of the permanent media facades, turning the area into the People’s Revolutionary Green Laser Light District, a place to display your uncurated animations and graphics. The back-side of the building is becoming a giant wall you can write on with a BFL (big fucking laser). See also their projection bomb and the BORF riot bike in action.
link by Tijmen Schep
link by Tijmen Schep
28 January 2007
Cardboard beautification of video billboards
"NYCs True Grafiti Problem" is a new project by the Anti-Advertising Agency with Graffiti Research Lab criticising light and visual pollution by hacking NYs video billboards on the subwayentrance with cardboard. Watch the movie and see also Ji Lee’s Abstractor TV instructions for turning video billboards into a piece of Art.
(still from the movie)
(still from the movie)
"Touch" - an urban interactive light installation
Between December and January a new interactive urban project called ‘ touch’ by LAb[au] transformed the dexia Tower in Brussels. Visitors could interact via a specific multi-touch screen with 4500 rgb light on a 145m high skyscraper to choose their color and to generate graphics which are displayed in real-time on the tower. Visitors also could request to snap a picture which they can sent as an electronic greeting card from the station on the bottom of the tower.
Artists: LAb[au] - ® Dexia + LAb[au]
Architects: Philippe Samyn & P., M & J.M. Jaspers - J. Eyers & P.
Lightning engineer: Barbara Hediger
Artists: LAb[au] - ® Dexia + LAb[au]
Architects: Philippe Samyn & P., M & J.M. Jaspers - J. Eyers & P.
Lightning engineer: Barbara Hediger
Billboard ban in Sao Paulo against visual pollution
A callenge against the consumer society, "aiming for a complete change of culture": By a margin 45 to 1 city officials in Sao Paulo, Brazil, have voted to ban all outdoor advertising. From Jan. 1 2007 there will be released as part of the 'clean city' law, against billboards, neon signs and electronic panels.
11 January 2007
Urban Screens in feature films
In the opening sequence of the new movie Children of Men (2006) the glass facades of shopping malls in London in 2027 are coverd with translucend moving images, showing memories of smiling children. Buses are covered with digital adverisement, Head-Up-Displays in ordinary cars. The world has fallen into anarchy due to an infertility defect in the population. No children. No hope. No future. But lots of Screens...
14 December 2006
Belarus library gets an LED facade
The National Library of Belarus in Minsk, is covered by glass panels. During the day all 24 sides sparkle. "Architects Victor Kramarenko and Michael Vinogradov, (... ) wanted to preserve and convey this vision at night. (... ) A total of 4646 color-changing LED fixtures were installed all around the building, effectively creating a monitor with 25x25 meter sides and 62 meters in diameter." (article and image by LEDs Magazine)
Amsterdam arts on the urban video screen at Rembrandt square
14th Dec. was the opening of the new 114m2 screen at the Rembrandt square in Amsterdam. "Mediamatic will show the square what cultural content the city has to offer. The screen will be inaugurated with a live VJ set by Micha Klein"...
Rembrandtscreen in scaffolding
Rembrandtscreen in scaffolding30 November 2006
Projected Weekends in Dublin
Nov. 6th 2006 to Mar. 7th 2007
The Digital Hub will run a series of outdoor projections from their premises in the Dublin 8. The projections will run for the entire weekend Friday 17:00 - Monday 08:30 and each weekend a new piece will be shown.
- This is an open ended call. There is no deadline for submissions.
- All work of any subject and discipline will be considered.
- sound will not be played on the street.
For further details please contact Elaine
e. exhibit@thedigitalhub.com
05 November 2006
"magical mirrors" playing with the urban audience
Daniel Michelis is currently experimenting with audience participation and reactions to the installation "Magical Mirrors", he is blogging about his observations. "Magical Mirrors" invites the observer in the street to play in front of and with these mirrors at the SAP Facade in Berlin Mitte. Very challenging, it's a tough time for interactions in public space, it got very cold in Berlin these days.
Lots of images on flickr
During the World Soccer Games in summer a WM-Special ran on the installation:
Lots of images on flickr
During the World Soccer Games in summer a WM-Special ran on the installation:
02 November 2006
Colour by Numbers - playing with the facade
Colour by numbers is a 72 meters high light installation at Telefonplan tower in Stockholm, running from October 23 until January 7. By calling a number, +46 (70) 57 57 807 one can control the colours in the windows of the tower by mixing red, green and blue light with the phone. A webcam observes the whole play. (Thanks for the link Christian)
(via we-make-money-not-art)
(via we-make-money-not-art)
29 October 2006
Poetic interactive L.E.D mesh structures
The Habitat Hotel is a working scale model of a hotel in Barcelona, by Cloud 9 Architecture . The 'energy mesh' wrapped around it has individual nodes that collect the sun's energy during the day and at night gives off a specific color according to the amount of energy collected. The model's mesh consists of 500 tri-color LEDs controlled by a PIC microprocessor. (via pixelsumo)
Achim Wollscheid's projects redlighthaze and intersite work with a mesh of LED lights covering the facade, recting to the sonic cityscape.
Natalie Bosko's light screens as well cover facades with a reactive LED light net:
23 October 2006
Unintended Textmessage Poetry on Digital Signage
Jonah saw this funny comment on a programable sign in New York. The whole sentence did not fit in, so the beginning of the moral advice "Use of Fake" is missing and thus creating a pretty artistic statement ...
11 October 2006
Cell Phone Disco - interacting with LEDs
Cell Phone Disco is a playful experimental installation made out of flashing cells. They basically consist of one or more LEDs, battery and a sensor that detects electromagnetic (EM) radiation transmitted by an active mobile phone. When the sensor detects EM waves it sets off the LEDs to flash for a couple of seconds. In general the flashing cells are enclosed in a plastic casing on a strap and sold as a fashion accessory for a mobile phone. Fuer die Deutschsprachigen ein Bericht im Spiegel.
thanks Auke!
thanks Auke!
06 October 2006
DingDotz LED fixtures for the facade of an Austrian bank
More and more media facades are beeing realised using techniques that allow the building's occupants to see out and daylight to enter.
At nighttime the whole first floor of the Raiffeisen Bank in Hollabrunn near Vienna becomes a digital LED screen running the bank's branding and promotions, or any other effect or animation. A light sensor turns the system on and off automatically, according to light levels. LEDs magazine describes the detailed construction and technique.
At nighttime the whole first floor of the Raiffeisen Bank in Hollabrunn near Vienna becomes a digital LED screen running the bank's branding and promotions, or any other effect or animation. A light sensor turns the system on and off automatically, according to light levels. LEDs magazine describes the detailed construction and technique.
05 October 2006
Who is the Architect of this media facade?
Timo Arnall came across this facade installation in the centre of Taipei, Taiwan and posted it on Flickr. He sais he really liked that the images stayed the same for very long: they weren't flashing or calling attention. The tree and the face image stayed the same for a whole day....
Does anybody know who the architect is?
Does anybody know who the architect is?
Refections about curating time-based art on a video billboard
Michelle Kasprzak writes about her experience curating Transmedia :29:59, the year-long programme of time-based art shown on a video billboard in Dundas Square in Toronto. 1 year, every month 2 artists shown in the 29th and 59th minute of every hour.
Reactive Gap House - LED lightening for narrow building gaps
From 10. Sept. to 19. Nov. at the 10th Venice Biennial for Architecture, ART+COM and architects Hoyer, Schindele, Hirschmueller und Partner will present the Reactive Gap House.
This architectural and media concept study meets the challenge of narrow building gaps overcoming the lighting problem by using illuminated ceilings – LEDs behind opaque glass. Connected to a sensory system, the ceilings react to movement below them. Inhabitants can also control the lighting in accordance to their moods.
This architectural and media concept study meets the challenge of narrow building gaps overcoming the lighting problem by using illuminated ceilings – LEDs behind opaque glass. Connected to a sensory system, the ceilings react to movement below them. Inhabitants can also control the lighting in accordance to their moods.
04 October 2006
Proximity Games on Big Urban Screens
Imagine a dormant virtual world with four seasons projected individually every week for the public to play with. The 3D inhabitants of the virtual world will come to life and populate the world as soon as they are prompted by the proximity of a Bluetooth signal from a mobile phone.... (Maria N. Stukoff)
See also Marias thoughts on her blog about an Open Mobile Broadcasting Channel
See also Marias thoughts on her blog about an Open Mobile Broadcasting Channel
24 September 2006
Lumalive - screens integrated in textiles of shirts and backpacks
Lumalive textiles make it possible to create fabrics that carry dynamic images. Will we soon carry around on jackets and backpacks our selfmade videos or favourites from youtube to share them with the urban public?
See documentation at youtube by Philips
See documentation at youtube by Philips
17 August 2006
The Solar Obelisk
Solar Obelisk is teaching people about rewneable resources in an interesting media installation intergrating light and sound using Solar power. Integrating an analogue bench supports the possibility for encounter and exchange in combination with the interactivity occuring through turning the solar panels on the obelique towards the sun and
experimenting with the effect of this on the integrated information displays.
experimenting with the effect of this on the integrated information displays.
Wind Power LED Displays
The sustainable revolution is proceeding:
quietrevolution display tourbines combine wind energy with LED displays:
"QR is available in a model capable of creating a visual display that is part artwork, part renewable energy device, part communications medium. LEDs embedded in each of its three S-shaped blades fire in sequence as the blades rotate, painting a video screen that appears to hang in the air. This full colour and motion image is clearly visible day and night."
Thanks for the hint Oliver Ionescu!
quietrevolution display tourbines combine wind energy with LED displays:
"QR is available in a model capable of creating a visual display that is part artwork, part renewable energy device, part communications medium. LEDs embedded in each of its three S-shaped blades fire in sequence as the blades rotate, painting a video screen that appears to hang in the air. This full colour and motion image is clearly visible day and night."
Thanks for the hint Oliver Ionescu!
25 July 2006
A new outdoor digital art gallery in Dallas
The Victory Media Network, a large-scale digital art gallery in Dallas, Texas, announces a new opportunity for filmmakers, digital artists and visual storytellers to show their work in a unique, world-class outdoor venue. Launching in November of this year, they will display publicly-submitted artwork, in conjunction with other media, on 11 LED Barco O-lite screens. Eight of these screens are on horizontally moving tracks an offer a myrid of motion possibilites.
18 April 2006
Bilboard war in Havanna LED screen used for political propaganda
The U.S. Interests Section in Havana inaugurated a Billboard, made of of 25 separate red light panels located in the windowpanes of the 5th floor to spread information or "propaganda" in the eye of Cubans. U.S. diplomats use it for example to flash messages to Cuban protesters.
In reaction Castro ordered to erect a "screen" of flags to cover it and personally visitsed the construction site. People speak of the new Bilboard war....
more images from fluctuat.net
In reaction Castro ordered to erect a "screen" of flags to cover it and personally visitsed the construction site. People speak of the new Bilboard war....
more images from fluctuat.net
30 March 2006
virtual dschungle 5 - talks about Media facades in Vienna
virtual dschungle 5 - Media facades
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
Presentation: Wednesday, Apr. 05, 2006, 07:00 pm
http://www.azw.at/event.php?event_id=565
Tickets: Free entry!
The harbingers of the media city are cropping up everywhere: projected images the size of an entire façade, huge screens on roof tops and culture buildings used as flickering display surfaces. Developments in the area of display technologies have produced new possibilities for hybrid architecture. The theme of media facades in architecture is not simply the next fashion trend, but represents a step in technological development that will have a lasting impact. This trend will affect the city – with or without architects' collaboration. Therefore the important thing is to assume social responsibility and to integrate the new technologies in building in a culturally ambitious way. For an Austrian architecture scene that likes to experiment the potential of such developments is a highly topical question....
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
Presentation: Wednesday, Apr. 05, 2006, 07:00 pm
http://www.azw.at/event.php?event_id=565
Tickets: Free entry!
The harbingers of the media city are cropping up everywhere: projected images the size of an entire façade, huge screens on roof tops and culture buildings used as flickering display surfaces. Developments in the area of display technologies have produced new possibilities for hybrid architecture. The theme of media facades in architecture is not simply the next fashion trend, but represents a step in technological development that will have a lasting impact. This trend will affect the city – with or without architects' collaboration. Therefore the important thing is to assume social responsibility and to integrate the new technologies in building in a culturally ambitious way. For an Austrian architecture scene that likes to experiment the potential of such developments is a highly topical question....
14 January 2006
Jobcentre Plus - information touch-screen kiosks
On my last trip I came across this information touch-screen at Stansted Airport where you can search in a huge job database right when you arrive in the UK. In gives a 24 hour telephone link to the national Jobcentre Plus website and the airport jobcentre. A paper by Markella Boudioni analyses the different use of information touch-screen kiosks
06 January 2006
OpenAir Cinema
Outdoor movies in charming settings has been popular in Berlin for a few years, like infront of the Charlottenburger castle or on the famous "museum island". In Sidney at the Royal Botanic Gardens they go show noe the Flickerfest, international short-film festival outdoors with a "killer harbour view"...
(thanksGeert for the link)
(thanksGeert for the link)
02 January 2006
Suburban Christmas Screens
Exuberant Christmas decorations in remote onefamily house areas are nothing new. Now a house owner started to discover comuter controlled systems for coreograhed, synchronised christmas light annimations, turning the house into a kind of moving screen. Is it really true? here the background... "So that the Williams' neighbors aren't disturbed by constant noise, viewers driving by the house are informed by signs to tune in to a signal broadcast over a low-power FM radio station to hear the musical accompaniment." Mr. Williams has posted instructions for others to follow. and finally made it into a TV commercial.
(thanks Juergen for the hint)
(thanks Juergen for the hint)
19 December 2005
Screens filling up a 3d volume of space
We are not far from images floating infront of us like minority report showed us ... Newsweek writes about 3d "in-your-face projections" filling up a volume of space. Firms are working on different methods to realise 3d impressions.
The Heliodisplay is not really 3d but it is a device which projects real-time streaming video images into thin air and can be also interactive, allowing a finger to move images around.
... but not yet for outdoor space.
FogScreen develops interactive "walk through screens" using fog as projection surface.
The Heliodisplay is not really 3d but it is a device which projects real-time streaming video images into thin air and can be also interactive, allowing a finger to move images around.
... but not yet for outdoor space.
FogScreen develops interactive "walk through screens" using fog as projection surface.
Interactive Panoramas for Club11
Club 11 at the Post CS building, Amsterdam, where we held our conference, continues to used its large screens covering the windows for a participatory screening event. The online community was asked to submitt jpgs of their personal panorama view and was encouraged to integrated name, location and company logo. One method how to make people participate.
Here a submission example :
Here a submission example :
Holographic screens turn shopwindows into interactive displays
Displax is working on interactive windows based on rear projections and finger tracking. One step closer to an urban space filled with moving images asking for your engagement with the virtual....
(thanks Florian for this link at Future Feeder)
(thanks Florian for this link at Future Feeder)
self sustainable analogue pixels for sunny weather
aether architectures new Induction house version4: a programmable space installation made of analogue pixels, each using solar power and radio communication to sense the presence of people. Various scenarios are looking at playful interaction with this screen on the floor.
17 December 2005
TV-B-Gone - a comment on the growing ubiquity of TVs
TV-B-Gone®, a universal remote control that is designed not only to turn TVs on and off, but also to enhance your life. How you enhance your life is totally up to you....
15 December 2005
The human billboards
Human moving billboards in Sydney: the digitalised version of people carying advertisement posters. "The 25- to 31-year-olds market, in Australia especially, are not at home watching television, they're at pubs watching television and people, so I decided to put televisions on people." Here some comments....
And another blogpost about human ad space and an article about advertising and the human billboard.
And another blogpost about human ad space and an article about advertising and the human billboard.
The biggest Screens: People as Pixels
Peter Hall writes about the Phenomenon of "stadium stunts ", of choreographing crowds to transform them into displays for the eyes of aerial and stadium cameras. These follow a long history of utilising crowds of people to form figurative graphics. Here an Interview with Joe Kivett a producer of these "card sunts".
But nobody is better than the North Koreans with their "mass games". One hundred thousand people dancing infront of a huge screen made up of children turning colored pages of books. Here some videos of the 2005 celebrations of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the ruling communist Korean Workers Party, a report by Luis Ramirez and a cnn insight script. A state of mind is a documentary about the games of 2002.
(Thanks Angelo for the hint)
But nobody is better than the North Koreans with their "mass games". One hundred thousand people dancing infront of a huge screen made up of children turning colored pages of books. Here some videos of the 2005 celebrations of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the ruling communist Korean Workers Party, a report by Luis Ramirez and a cnn insight script. A state of mind is a documentary about the games of 2002.
(Thanks Angelo for the hint)
09 December 2005
Videopodcast about the SPOTS facade installation
Culturetv pdcasts about SPOTS at Potsdamer Platz 10, Berlin. For 18 months, the main facade of this office building host this light and media art installation designed by realities:united.
27 November 2005
Hyperlinking Surfaces in the Physical World trough Image Recognition
"Search technology comes to the camera phone"
This Article beautifully explains some new marketing technique called "mobile visual search", how to make people interact with the products they see or buy more intensively via mobilephone. Sending a picture of the add to a special database will in return give you promotional perk or more information.
- getting free downloadable songs from your dayly milk bottel
- getting film trailers and nearest theatre locations from movie billboards, buy tickets
- getting soccer games from a bottle of soft drink
- getting beautytips and sweepstake entry for a trip to Paris from shampoo bottles
- of course it is used for security issues...
There will be an incresed connection of lage scale static screens and the personal mobile mini screen... see also the post about sema codes
(Thanks Rob for the link)
This Article beautifully explains some new marketing technique called "mobile visual search", how to make people interact with the products they see or buy more intensively via mobilephone. Sending a picture of the add to a special database will in return give you promotional perk or more information.
- getting free downloadable songs from your dayly milk bottel
- getting film trailers and nearest theatre locations from movie billboards, buy tickets
- getting soccer games from a bottle of soft drink
- getting beautytips and sweepstake entry for a trip to Paris from shampoo bottles
- of course it is used for security issues...
There will be an incresed connection of lage scale static screens and the personal mobile mini screen... see also the post about sema codes
(Thanks Rob for the link)
24 November 2005
Europe's largest LED screen in Berlin
The fight for the largest screen in Europe goes on...
Press release: The traditional letters on top of the landmark building of the Axel Springer publishing house have been replaced with an LED screen banner, 4 meters high and over 50 meters wide. (see also the news from Sept. 05)
Press release: The traditional letters on top of the landmark building of the Axel Springer publishing house have been replaced with an LED screen banner, 4 meters high and over 50 meters wide. (see also the news from Sept. 05)
20 November 2005
Screenology - a historical phenomenology of the screen
Erkki Huhtamo (Screenologist) writes about the history of the screen and shows fascinating historic images!
"There are "Big Screens" and "Small Screens". Some are flat, some fat, attached to a box. Some are like the sun - active, radiating "life" of their own - while others are like the moon, passive, reflecting light projected at them. There are screens observed from a distance, and others touched and interacted with, held in one's hand. How to formulate a definition that would embrace them all? Does it even make sense to ask such a question?..."
"There are "Big Screens" and "Small Screens". Some are flat, some fat, attached to a box. Some are like the sun - active, radiating "life" of their own - while others are like the moon, passive, reflecting light projected at them. There are screens observed from a distance, and others touched and interacted with, held in one's hand. How to formulate a definition that would embrace them all? Does it even make sense to ask such a question?..."
05 November 2005
Storyboard - post a messages to a mobile Message Sign
Storyboard will provide an opportunity for members of the public to post messages to a mobile Variable Message Sign using a mobile phone. The sign will be located on Hayes Island, adjacent to the Old Library and will be active between 10am and 11pm on 28th, 29th and 30th October. Storyboard by Stefhan Caddick is part of Cardiff's inaugural Festival of Creative Technology (28-30 Oct. 05). Following the Festival, the work will move to Gallery 39 for an exhibition in December The VMS sign was provided by Leaderboard sports.
03 November 2005
List of Screens Networks
I am collecting established screens networks. Annything to add, plese send me a note!
LED Screens Network, Lithuania (since 2002)
CityVisions Outdoor Video Network, Russia (since 2003)
Urban Display Network, at New Yorks Subway enrances (since 2004)
Network of LED Billboards, Mexico (since 2004)
City Channel, Austria (since 2004)
StreeT.V, Tel Aviv, Israel (2005?)
LED screen network in Lisbon, Portugal, established for the Board of Tourism
LED Screens Network, Lithuania (since 2002)
CityVisions Outdoor Video Network, Russia (since 2003)
Urban Display Network, at New Yorks Subway enrances (since 2004)
Network of LED Billboards, Mexico (since 2004)
City Channel, Austria (since 2004)
StreeT.V, Tel Aviv, Israel (2005?)
LED screen network in Lisbon, Portugal, established for the Board of Tourism
Using your Palm as a Temporary Screen
Another interesting post by the we-make-money-not-art blog:
A projector/camera system shows images of raindrops hitting the ground and making ripples. If people enter the area their palms are tracked and the projector shoots advertisement onto their hands. "The 'rain' could guide customers to specific stores....The system could also be used to show motion pictures at amusement parks, letting people in long queues enjoy animations or movies on their palms as they move ahead...."
Sale...
A projector/camera system shows images of raindrops hitting the ground and making ripples. If people enter the area their palms are tracked and the projector shoots advertisement onto their hands. "The 'rain' could guide customers to specific stores....The system could also be used to show motion pictures at amusement parks, letting people in long queues enjoy animations or movies on their palms as they move ahead...."
Sale...
01 November 2005
Unfolding the Screen
An interesting comparison I found on Informationlab:
Pleinmuseum representing the classical approach "where the drama stays staged in front of (the audience) without mobilising them into the exploration of the 'unfolded' screen", represented here by Aether architecture and their projects.
Pleinmuseum representing the classical approach "where the drama stays staged in front of (the audience) without mobilising them into the exploration of the 'unfolded' screen", represented here by Aether architecture and their projects.
Invisible "Screens" - Applied Augmented Reality
Timescope by ART+COM is a telescope that is overlaying the real city you look at with images of the history or future of the site.
This is based on the idea of augmented reality. Here a mobile personal screensystem, the nomad display, that directly projects into your eye, overlaying data on your view. Of course used for military pupose...
Yet the system semacodes are a much easier way to bring localised information quickly on your personal mobilephone screen. It is simply an optical barcode connected to a URL internet address. "Using the Semacode Reader technology, a user can scan a semacode tag and then with a single click connect to the web page or other internet resource right on their portable camera phone." It is used for example in urban exporation games.
This is based on the idea of augmented reality. Here a mobile personal screensystem, the nomad display, that directly projects into your eye, overlaying data on your view. Of course used for military pupose...
Yet the system semacodes are a much easier way to bring localised information quickly on your personal mobilephone screen. It is simply an optical barcode connected to a URL internet address. "Using the Semacode Reader technology, a user can scan a semacode tag and then with a single click connect to the web page or other internet resource right on their portable camera phone." It is used for example in urban exporation games.
Haruka - a 3D Floating Vision Receptionist
Virtual commercial 3d invasion of public space?!
Matthew's comment: "We could see boxes in shop windows with the 3D image of the product projected onto the pavement outside so we couldn't miss it. I'm sure advertisers could come up with a way to use the sensor system for some simple interaction to keep the potential customer's attention as well."
Thanks Pieter for the hint!
Matthew's comment: "We could see boxes in shop windows with the 3D image of the product projected onto the pavement outside so we couldn't miss it. I'm sure advertisers could come up with a way to use the sensor system for some simple interaction to keep the potential customer's attention as well."
Thanks Pieter for the hint!
27 October 2005
Stekel - Light Emitting Rooftiles
Live from the stifo@sandberg conference:
Lambert Kamps is just showing his project of rooftiles that are made of transparent polyester with integrated LEDs. They make it possible to display messsages, logos, animations on your roof.
Lambert Kamps is just showing his project of rooftiles that are made of transparent polyester with integrated LEDs. They make it possible to display messsages, logos, animations on your roof.
24 October 2005
Analogue Freeway Blogging - Homemade Political Signs
Scarlet P. the anti-war activist has put up more than 2,000 cardboard signs on his own in California. " When you put a sign on the freeway people will read it until someone takes it down. Depending on its size, content and placement it can be seen by hundreds of thousands of people." The freeways are more and more equiped with digital bilboards but they are only open for commercial used. Since 9/11 and the beginning of the War in Iraq, freeway blogging has exploded in the US as reclaiming a space for free speech where you can also reach a big audience. (see the interview with him)
Online he has put guidelines and a picture blog...
Here my own image from recently driving to LA:
$2.99
Thanks Pieter Boeder for the hint!
Online he has put guidelines and a picture blog...
Here my own image from recently driving to LA:
$2.99
Thanks Pieter Boeder for the hint!
19 October 2005
Solar Powerd LEDs at the LED 2005 conference San Diego
Live from the LEDs conference in San Diego where I just gave yesterday a presentation about Urban Screens 05:
I Just hear a lecture about Solar Powerd LEDs.... David Green of the Carmanah Technologies Corporation shows interesting outdoor applications, for example Busstops, Streetsighns, Streetlights etc. The Company is currently focused on three technology groups; solar-powered LED lighting, solar power systems (off grid and grid tie), and LED illuminated signage.
I Just hear a lecture about Solar Powerd LEDs.... David Green of the Carmanah Technologies Corporation shows interesting outdoor applications, for example Busstops, Streetsighns, Streetlights etc. The Company is currently focused on three technology groups; solar-powered LED lighting, solar power systems (off grid and grid tie), and LED illuminated signage.
19 September 2005
Imaginative Keyword Conversations on Screens with Flickr
The diners in bar/restaurant/club 11 in Amsterdam will be subjected to the wrath of fellow visitors SMSing whatever keyword they want to the installation that pulls photos from the online community flickr and projects them onto Restaurant 11's huge panoramic screens.
Here a very similar idea by Family Filter (Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Tim Redfern and Duncan Murphy) done since 2003: SimpleTEXT
a collaborative audio/visual public performance that relies on audience participation through input from mobile devices. The performance creates a dialogue between participants who submit messages which control the audiovisual output of the installation. These messages are first parsed according to a code that dictates how the music is created, and then rhythmically drive a speech synthesizer and a picture synthesizer, using google web image search.
See also Interfacing/Radiotopia/Keyworx by Isabelle Jenniches and Michelle Teran.
Here a very similar idea by Family Filter (Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Tim Redfern and Duncan Murphy) done since 2003: SimpleTEXT
a collaborative audio/visual public performance that relies on audience participation through input from mobile devices. The performance creates a dialogue between participants who submit messages which control the audiovisual output of the installation. These messages are first parsed according to a code that dictates how the music is created, and then rhythmically drive a speech synthesizer and a picture synthesizer, using google web image search.
See also Interfacing/Radiotopia/Keyworx by Isabelle Jenniches and Michelle Teran.
29 August 2005
Urban Noise Pollution Displayed on Street Advertising Boards
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.
"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.
23 August 2005
KISS DONT WALK Art Project for Stadsschouwburg A'dam
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
(Amsterdam: Nov 2004 - July 2005)
Next stop: Technische Universiteit Eindhoven Oct 2005 - Febr 2006
17 August 2005
Billboards Depending on Sunshine
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
Thanks to Selene Kolman
09 August 2005
Smiles: the Large-Screen Vision at the EXPO 2005 Plaza
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
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
05 August 2005
WLAN Electronic Paper Signboards at Public Buildings
"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...."
Context Sensitive Electronic Screens on Taxis
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)
(via MIT Advertising Lab)
04 August 2005
A Personal Big Screen Connected to the Mobilephone
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)
(via Tomorrow'sTrends)
03 August 2005
Wearable Smale Scale Urban Screens
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.
Embrace-by Lisa Thomas and Jonathan Fitch is another concept for an interactive bracelet with little displays for shared experiences.
01 August 2005
BCBF - The Beautiful City Billboard Fee
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.
TRANSMEDIA :29:59 - artworks on the Yonge-Dundas Square billboard, Toronto
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.
A Digital Dragon to Attract Tourists to the Japanese Countryside
"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"
25 July 2005
List of Art Festivals and Screenings on Urban Screens
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).
Tempography: Minimalist video art for publics screens. First brought on Screens in London and Birmingham busses in 2004
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)
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).
Tempography: Minimalist video art for publics screens. First brought on Screens in London and Birmingham busses in 2004
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)
15 July 2005
Digital signage conference and fair in Paris
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 Raphael Pinot
12 July 2005
Videoinstallation on 44 Russian Urban Screens
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?
"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?
Using windows as 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.
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.
10 July 2005
PingPongPixel
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.
02 July 2005
BBCi Showcase - Street-level interactive displays
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"
See also the article by Jessie Scanlon : "If Walls Could Talk, Streets Might Join In"
01 July 2005
Public Shared Displays - Three Research Papers
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
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
29 June 2005
Beyond the Public Screen
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..."
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..."
18 June 2005
Pleinmuseum - a traveling screens installation
Pleinmuseum is a pavilion made of screens featuring an artists group-presentation. It will travel to 7 cities in the Netherlands/Belgium stopping on large outdoor plazas during summer 2005.
17 June 2005
Interactive Urban Screens: Designproposals for civic exchange
Civic Exchange: An interactive public installation for Lower Manhattan
"The competition (by Van Alen Institute) encouraged designers to go "beyond the kiosk" in envisioning an interactive public installation for those who live, work, and visit Lower Manhattan. Responding to a challenging brief, the proposals explore the boundaries between existing and new technologies. They argue for both a physical and a virtual exchange of information. ..."
"The competition (by Van Alen Institute) encouraged designers to go "beyond the kiosk" in envisioning an interactive public installation for those who live, work, and visit Lower Manhattan. Responding to a challenging brief, the proposals explore the boundaries between existing and new technologies. They argue for both a physical and a virtual exchange of information. ..."
Branding the Urban Landscape
Presentation and discussion at MIT communications forum, downloadable as audio recording:
"As brands compete for attention in an environment saturated with advertising, some companies are taking to the streets, placing ads in unlikely and attention-grabbing locations, deploying mobile technologies to annotate the urban landscape, aiming to create marketing that doesn't look or feel like advertising. At the same time, activist groups are exploiting the same technologies to deliver their own messages about city life. ..."
"As brands compete for attention in an environment saturated with advertising, some companies are taking to the streets, placing ads in unlikely and attention-grabbing locations, deploying mobile technologies to annotate the urban landscape, aiming to create marketing that doesn't look or feel like advertising. At the same time, activist groups are exploiting the same technologies to deliver their own messages about city life. ..."
TRANSMEDIA - deadline for submissions: Sep. 1st
"TRANSMEDIA :29:59, is an ongoing programme of media art displayed on the pedestrian level video billboard at Dundas Square in downtown Toronto. Beginning July 1st 2005, one minute video works will be broadcast 24/7 every half hour on the 29th and 59th minutes. ..."
HORIZON - large screen artwork for Atlanta's airport
"Horizon will be a permanent public art installation by the OpenEnded Group for the new International Terminal in Atlanta's airport (scheduled for 2008). It will present viewers with a gigantic field of luminous LEDs ranged across a 280 foot span, with full-motion graphics generated in real-time by its underlying artificial intelligence program. Horizon will respond to its environment, interacting with such things as the weather seen through the terminal windows and the flow of crowds through the terminal gates. ..."
11 June 2005
Digital Billboard Hacking
"Adbusting follows the outdoor industry into the digital age. Not only can digital billboards be spray-painted, they can also get hacked." (via MIT advertising lab)
See also "Traffic sign hacking in Florida"
See also "Traffic sign hacking in Florida"
The future of advertising technology and media?
Here soem links from MITs blog on the future of advertising technology and media:
- Digital Signage and Electronic Paper
- E Ink: Digital Signage & Billboards
- Upload Picture To Interactive Billboard
- Wireless Video Advertising in Subway
- Digital Billboards: Magink
- Digital Billboards: Overview
- Interactive Wallpaper
- Digital Signage and Electronic Paper
- E Ink: Digital Signage & Billboards
- Upload Picture To Interactive Billboard
- Wireless Video Advertising in Subway
- Digital Billboards: Magink
- Digital Billboards: Overview
- Interactive Wallpaper
Blow-up Screens for the Extended Family Picnic
08 June 2005
Advertising and the metabolism of the city (pdf)
Anne Cronin (2004):"Advertising and the metabolism of the city: urban space, commodity rhythms"
In her paper she looks at outdoor advertising and how it organises urban space and draws on certain commodity logics, rearticulating the mapping of city spaces and times and the experience of those time-spaces.
In her paper she looks at outdoor advertising and how it organises urban space and draws on certain commodity logics, rearticulating the mapping of city spaces and times and the experience of those time-spaces.
05 June 2005
The Decorated Shed, Eletronic Gothic and Ornamental Graffiti
A Conversation with Robert Venturi & Denise Scott Brown
"...Take the stained glass windows of gothic architecture: they were beautiful art, but more important, they offered specific instruction. Now we have billboards. We have light emitting diodes. We have Times Square, the great urban complex of our time, the equivalent of the Piazza San Marco of Venice of the past...."
"...Take the stained glass windows of gothic architecture: they were beautiful art, but more important, they offered specific instruction. Now we have billboards. We have light emitting diodes. We have Times Square, the great urban complex of our time, the equivalent of the Piazza San Marco of Venice of the past...."
02 June 2005
Open-air video projections
Guerrilla screenings.... as some call these unofficial open-air video projections that attempt to bring alternative moving image content into the city. Here a few examples:
BeamMobile(tm) Amsterdam and Moscow
FrameFunk
Guerilla Vision
TV control
Life: a user's manual
visions of newAmerica
Sure it does not take long till someone exploits this street culture for commercial purpose: Boston media company Alt Terrain LLC screens images of brands, messages, and TV commercials on outdoor structures during the night...
BeamMobile(tm) Amsterdam and Moscow
FrameFunk
Guerilla Vision
TV control
Life: a user's manual
visions of newAmerica
Sure it does not take long till someone exploits this street culture for commercial purpose: Boston media company Alt Terrain LLC screens images of brands, messages, and TV commercials on outdoor structures during the night...
HUMO - Huge and Mobile projections
A residential tower on a university campus with an projection from the computer game "Sim Tower." (photo by R. Lozano-Hemmer)
thanks Julie
thanks Julie
01 June 2005
Self Organized Low Tec Urban Screens
A unique example of a self organized urban screen. A good-bye "community performance" for the pope from Poland.
Thanks for the note Adam
Thanks for the note Adam
28 May 2005
the largest LED billboard network in the world?
When Traffic Stalls, Mexico's Drivers Turn To Screens...
"...Organizacion Editorial Mexicana (OEM) is erecting more than 200 giant LED screens across the country to show news, advertising and public information. A large LED billboard network..."
"...Organizacion Editorial Mexicana (OEM) is erecting more than 200 giant LED screens across the country to show news, advertising and public information. A large LED billboard network..."
give voice and visibility to the marginalised
The purpose was to use progressive technology to give voice and visibility to the women who work in the "maquiladora" industry in Tijuana. We designed a headset that integrated a camera and a microphone allowing the wearer to move while keeping the transmitted image in focus. The headset was connected to two projectors and loudspeakers projecting on the 60-foot diameter facade of the Omnimax Theater ...
Passing Glances - Imagedatabase for urban screens
Passing Glances enables users to create these ambient urban interludes through the use of SMS text messages. The Passing Glances system contains a wealth of keyword-associated imagery that is stored 'in the city'. Images are revealed to the transient audiences in real time at a public site when SMS message keywords trigger the system.
27 May 2005
Watching Mobile Gameplayers over their shoulder
"...The game decks, linked to each other in real time via the Internet, enabled gamers in two different cities each day to pit their skills against each other.... The LED screens showed the players in action, intercut with funky graphics and Nokia imagery. ..."
The solution: Glasses against visual spam
"Distracted by billboards? Offended by their sexist, ageist content? Want to drive safely, with your attention not being diverted by catchy images and slogans? As a tourist, would you like to observe historical monuments and beautiful views, rather than companies logos overlapping them? Not happy with commercialization, visual pollution of public spaces?"
see-free.com
The special high-tech glasses from SeeFree provides users with the ability to see the world without billboards, signs and other commercial visual spam
see-free.com
The special high-tech glasses from SeeFree provides users with the ability to see the world without billboards, signs and other commercial visual spam
Becoming a designer through Billboardadvertising?
After designing a sneaker on the screen, the user receives a text message within seconds. That message contains mobile phone wallpaper showing the shoe along with a link to the Nike iD site where they can buy it.
Behind the scene: the costs of advertising on Times Square:
The 11 ad spaces on One and Two Times Square cost up to $350,000 a month.
Behind the scene: the costs of advertising on Times Square:
The 11 ad spaces on One and Two Times Square cost up to $350,000 a month.
interactive billboards advertising combined with SMS
- vote via cell-phone What is beautiful?
- a billboard that allows pedestrians to play a video game
- winning a car by sending an SMS to billboards
- a billboard that allows pedestrians to play a video game
- winning a car by sending an SMS to billboards
High-Tech Billboards
Is this the first "intelligen" Billboard?
"9/30/2003 - LONDON (Reuters) - Coca-Cola unveiled one of the world's biggest and most sophisticated billboards Tuesday -- a 99-foot-wide neon colossus which can respond to the weather and interact with people looking at it from the ground."
Another electronic display unveiled in December 2002 at Picadilly Circus displays messages from the public. On the Vodafone web site you can input a message which can run immediately or can be pre-scheduled to run at a time. The sign can be viewed on the Internet via a web cam.
"9/30/2003 - LONDON (Reuters) - Coca-Cola unveiled one of the world's biggest and most sophisticated billboards Tuesday -- a 99-foot-wide neon colossus which can respond to the weather and interact with people looking at it from the ground."
Another electronic display unveiled in December 2002 at Picadilly Circus displays messages from the public. On the Vodafone web site you can input a message which can run immediately or can be pre-scheduled to run at a time. The sign can be viewed on the Internet via a web cam.
26 May 2005
Amsterdam will get the biggest billboard of Europe!
After a three year long lawsuit between Explore Vision Group and the central district of Amsterdam, EVG will finally place a huge LED Screen on Rembrandt square. The content will be 60% commercials and the rest for common and charitable purposes. The opening is scheduled for August 2005.
Urban Mediator: using interactive public screens as neighborhood boards
The vision has been restated in Joanna Saad-Sulonens MA thesis "Mediaattori - Urban Mediator: a hybrid infrastructure for neighborhoods ".
"A network of information servers (neighborhood servers) lies at the heart of the hybrid infrastructure. Interaction with these servers can happen at specific locations in urban space, interactive spots, through proximity connection between people’s own devices and interactive public boards (neighborhood boards) or through localized access to WiFi. Interactive spots can exist at places of waiting, like bus stops or public squares. Connection to the servers can also happen through the Internet... "
"A network of information servers (neighborhood servers) lies at the heart of the hybrid infrastructure. Interaction with these servers can happen at specific locations in urban space, interactive spots, through proximity connection between people’s own devices and interactive public boards (neighborhood boards) or through localized access to WiFi. Interactive spots can exist at places of waiting, like bus stops or public squares. Connection to the servers can also happen through the Internet... "
Connecting the community
LIME, a vision of 1997... a tool to capture, share and explore the collective memory of a local community with the aim to interpret and preserve the richness and complexity of local culture...
The public screen:
"This node can take several forms such as a projection in a shopping mall or a large secure display in a bus stop. Interaction is limited to viewing content and collecting any interesting items by simply 'swipping' the reader beneath the screen with your token."
2003 - closer to reality: Hypertag (thanks Rob for the Link!)
A groundbreaking new technology that enables mobile phones and PDAs to "talk" to advertising posters is being trialed in London cinemas from July 2003...
The public screen:
"This node can take several forms such as a projection in a shopping mall or a large secure display in a bus stop. Interaction is limited to viewing content and collecting any interesting items by simply 'swipping' the reader beneath the screen with your token."
2003 - closer to reality: Hypertag (thanks Rob for the Link!)
A groundbreaking new technology that enables mobile phones and PDAs to "talk" to advertising posters is being trialed in London cinemas from July 2003...
20 May 2005
Light as one of Architecture's Most Important Material
See also Chanel's new Tokyo headquarters, designed by Peter Marino, here presented shortly in Anna Holzmans article in Architects Newspaper . It "has a triple-glazed facade featuring view-controlled glass and LEDs that enable the building to be completely transparent by day and lanternlike at night. The building has an art director who programs different patterns for the facade."
19 May 2005
Electronic Screens as Part of Modern City Architecture
Yet, LED screens are often integrated much less spectacular in the urban architecture like the examples in Vladimir Krylov's article in the Issue #7/2000 of screens.ru show...
A giant pixelated screen - Galleria Seoul
"Designed by Ben van Berkel from UN Studio architects and Arup Lighting, the Galleria has a perpetually changing, light-reactive and computer-programmable facade that behaves like a giant (LED lighting) video screen."
More photos by Timo Arnall on Flickr
More photos by Timo Arnall on Flickr
17 May 2005
Electronic-Paper Billboards
Magink technology enables to create affordable "paper like" lightweight low power indoor and outdoor displays. "Maintenance-free autonomous systems operating in remote locations lacking adequate infrastructure". Gyricon - produces SmartPaper (via MIT adverlab)
16 May 2005
rollable-display development
" Lightweight, large-area displays that are unbreakable and can be rolled up into a small-sized housing when not actively used, are particularly attractive for mobile applications. The availability of such displays would greatly stimulate the advance of electronic books, newspapers and magazines... "
First paper-like displays, how long does it take till we have large display canvas covering our Architecture!
See also Polymer OLED (overview)
First paper-like displays, how long does it take till we have large display canvas covering our Architecture!
See also Polymer OLED (overview)
Flexible Colour Screens Integrated into Clothing
"A new means of expression... France Telecom develops an integrated flexible screen to display animated graphics on the wearer... The screen is connected to a mobile phone, so drawings and animations can be sent by MMS to another user with the same equipment. Thanks to a dedicated embedded software application, the mobile can be used as a remote control to activate the screen's functionalities..."
The screens.ru Journal about OLED Monitors
"... According to results of research of Chinese scientists organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) not only make it possible to make monitors more miniature, but, moreover, they make it possible to create plastic monitors. By that OLED can initiate the entire revolution at the LED screens market and make changes in digital world which surrounds us...."
15 May 2005
Berlin in wrapping-fever
Thanks Aram, almost didital!
In a bit of time these canvas-covers will be surely digital...
In a bit of time these canvas-covers will be surely digital...
09 May 2005
Put your SMS texts up on the big screen
"Sick of squinting at the minuscule display on your mobile phone or Palm
device? Ramesh Raskar might have a solution: tiny built-in projectors that
turn virtually any handy surface into a display as big as you want... and
the world becomes your display..."
Article by Rebecca Zacks, December 2004
device? Ramesh Raskar might have a solution: tiny built-in projectors that
turn virtually any handy surface into a display as big as you want... and
the world becomes your display..."
Article by Rebecca Zacks, December 2004
08 May 2005
Mobile Journeys - FutureScreen Mobile
Maybe a bit a side topic, looking at these small screens of the mobilephones spreading around urban space. Yet if we think of mobilephones as remotecontroll like done in the famous project Blinkenlights etc. ...
"Mobile Journeys" intends to inspire and challenge to change the way you think about and use your phone; to encourage you to be a producer as well as a consumer; and to stimulate critical debate about how mobile devices might shape our future...
"FutureScreen Mobile" - platforms for creation, distribution and presentation of screen based and new media art...
Adriana de Souza e Silva adresses that also in her writings about mobile communication technologies changing social practices and the experience of urban spaces.
An other article by Anna Davis: "Mobilising phone art"
"Mobile Journeys" intends to inspire and challenge to change the way you think about and use your phone; to encourage you to be a producer as well as a consumer; and to stimulate critical debate about how mobile devices might shape our future...
"FutureScreen Mobile" - platforms for creation, distribution and presentation of screen based and new media art...
Adriana de Souza e Silva adresses that also in her writings about mobile communication technologies changing social practices and the experience of urban spaces.
An other article by Anna Davis: "Mobilising phone art"
Medien zwischen Himmel und Erde
Wolfgang Lanzenberger (2004), a German film director interested in the
"balance between film and life" writing obout mediafassades (sorry only in
German)
"Large videoboards, lightinstallations, displayfacades. whether in New
York, Tokyo, Berlin or elsewhere - multimedia Imageworlds discove conquer the public space. On facades of buildings in huge dimensions they unfold an imapct, impossible to elude. Not allways these facades are commonly accepted and appreciated...."
Times Square, New York
see also "The Typogrophy of News"
"balance between film and life" writing obout mediafassades (sorry only in
German)
"Large videoboards, lightinstallations, displayfacades. whether in New
York, Tokyo, Berlin or elsewhere - multimedia Imageworlds discove conquer the public space. On facades of buildings in huge dimensions they unfold an imapct, impossible to elude. Not allways these facades are commonly accepted and appreciated...."
Times Square, New York
see also "The Typogrophy of News"
THE ACTIVE WALL: Architecture as Interface
Something more about the interactivity of facades: A research proposal by
John K. Branner (2004), focusing "on architecture that represents
significant moments in the evolution of the wall as an interactive system
from the earliest civilizations to the most recent emerging innovation"
"In much of the world, the wall has developed from solid masonry into a system in which discrete components serve separate functions. This breakdown of tasks has progressively enabled the wall to perform as a dynamic participant in both the changing demands of the inhabitants inside the space it defines, and the environment in constant flux outside..."
John K. Branner (2004), focusing "on architecture that represents
significant moments in the evolution of the wall as an interactive system
from the earliest civilizations to the most recent emerging innovation"
"In much of the world, the wall has developed from solid masonry into a system in which discrete components serve separate functions. This breakdown of tasks has progressively enabled the wall to perform as a dynamic participant in both the changing demands of the inhabitants inside the space it defines, and the environment in constant flux outside..."
Facade as Media Skin
1. Prof. Joachim Sauter, for a long time already, is investigating the integration of mediadisplays into fassades. Especially the development of sensitiv, intelligent or dynamsic surfaces. Here an article by him (2004) (unfortunately only in German):
Das vierte Format: Die Fassade als mediale Haut der Architektur
Joachim Sauter describes the facade as the fourth format, as interactive membrane between architecture an public space. He presents states of uses (Bespielungszustände) of media facades, that can be designed autoactive, reactive, interactive and participative... Temporary-permanent, before construction - after construction are aspects, also to be considered in the design of a city space that is increasingly integrates media. Technology ages quicker than architecture!
Concept "Expofassade" by C. Moeller, J. Sauter 1998
2. Here an other overview of various concepts of mediafassades by Alexander Wahl (2002), focussing on the different techniques that can create the dynamic effect on fassades (also only German):
Wandelbare (mediale) Gebaeudefassaden
Das vierte Format: Die Fassade als mediale Haut der Architektur
Joachim Sauter describes the facade as the fourth format, as interactive membrane between architecture an public space. He presents states of uses (Bespielungszustände) of media facades, that can be designed autoactive, reactive, interactive and participative... Temporary-permanent, before construction - after construction are aspects, also to be considered in the design of a city space that is increasingly integrates media. Technology ages quicker than architecture!
Concept "Expofassade" by C. Moeller, J. Sauter 1998
2. Here an other overview of various concepts of mediafassades by Alexander Wahl (2002), focussing on the different techniques that can create the dynamic effect on fassades (also only German):
Wandelbare (mediale) Gebaeudefassaden
07 May 2005
Installation using interactive screens of Busstops
"Phonetic Faces by Jonah Brucker Cohen, is an interactive mobile visual installation in public space that allows people to both contribute their image to a shared display and collaborate with others to create a collage of images using their mobile phones."
"Chat stops by rude architecture are stops, equipped with interactive video technology. Thus communication between waiting people at different bus stops is made possible. If one likes to, one can start a "video conference" with somewhere else waiting people.
"Chat stops by rude architecture are stops, equipped with interactive video technology. Thus communication between waiting people at different bus stops is made possible. If one likes to, one can start a "video conference" with somewhere else waiting people.
06 May 2005
God Bless America
... and on the other hand:
1. Electronic Billboards (LED's) - practical answers to what you allways wanted to know..., by a south east American firm. Outdoor Advertising - Good Bless America!
"Imagine that you are driving down the road and you see a huge moving ad that looks like it's part of a giant laptop computer. As you get closer, your curiosity has risen and you really want to see what's on that moving board..."
2. And of course not to forget the American OAAA Foundation, the leading trade association representing the outdoor advertising industry. Founded in 1891, the OAAA is dedicated to promoting, protecting and advancing outdoor advertising interests in the U.S.
1. Electronic Billboards (LED's) - practical answers to what you allways wanted to know..., by a south east American firm. Outdoor Advertising - Good Bless America!
"Imagine that you are driving down the road and you see a huge moving ad that looks like it's part of a giant laptop computer. As you get closer, your curiosity has risen and you really want to see what's on that moving board..."
2. And of course not to forget the American OAAA Foundation, the leading trade association representing the outdoor advertising industry. Founded in 1891, the OAAA is dedicated to promoting, protecting and advancing outdoor advertising interests in the U.S.
SCRUB
A society Created to Reduce Urban Blight, Working With Citizens to Improve Philadelphia's Visual Environment and Quality of Life
"From the beginning, SCRUB has been dedicated to improving the quality of life in Philadelphia by eliminating visual blight. This section ohttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.giff the web site provides access to information on the impressive list of cases SCRUB has participated in, as well as news articles about SCRUB, news about billboards from around the world, our Billboard Finder to find a list of illegal billboards anywhere in the city. You can also read about recent and upcoming hearings involving billboards, or look at some of the projects SCRUB has undertaken in recent years."
They also provide A citizen’s manual (pdf): Signs, Billboards and your Community
"From the beginning, SCRUB has been dedicated to improving the quality of life in Philadelphia by eliminating visual blight. This section ohttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.giff the web site provides access to information on the impressive list of cases SCRUB has participated in, as well as news articles about SCRUB, news about billboards from around the world, our Billboard Finder to find a list of illegal billboards anywhere in the city. You can also read about recent and upcoming hearings involving billboards, or look at some of the projects SCRUB has undertaken in recent years."
They also provide A citizen’s manual (pdf): Signs, Billboards and your Community
Billboards and Highway Safety studies
Here another two shorter abstracts from research studies in 2003:
1. Electronic Billboards and Highway Safety (pdf)
"Several state studies and current regulations of electronic billboards (EBBs) and tri-vision outdoor signs. FHWA and AASHTO guidance, paths for future research." (A study by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation)
2. Driving Performance in the Presence and Absence of Billboards (pdf)
"According to a report released by the Center for Crash Causation and Human Factors at Virginia Tech’s Transportation Institute (VTTI), billboards do not measurably affect driving performance." (A study prepared for the Foundation for Outdoor Advertising Research and Education)
3. External-to-Vehicle Driver Distraction (website and pdf 385k)
This report presents a literature review since 1945 on external-to-vehicle driver distraction. Chapter 7 is especially a review pertaining to billboards and signs as an external distracter, in an attempt to discover whether there is evidence that billboards and signs are a contributory factor to road accidents. (study carried out by Human Factors Analysts Ltd. (HFAL) associated with the University of Strathclyde.
1. Electronic Billboards and Highway Safety (pdf)
"Several state studies and current regulations of electronic billboards (EBBs) and tri-vision outdoor signs. FHWA and AASHTO guidance, paths for future research." (A study by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation)
2. Driving Performance in the Presence and Absence of Billboards (pdf)
"According to a report released by the Center for Crash Causation and Human Factors at Virginia Tech’s Transportation Institute (VTTI), billboards do not measurably affect driving performance." (A study prepared for the Foundation for Outdoor Advertising Research and Education)
3. External-to-Vehicle Driver Distraction (website and pdf 385k)
This report presents a literature review since 1945 on external-to-vehicle driver distraction. Chapter 7 is especially a review pertaining to billboards and signs as an external distracter, in an attempt to discover whether there is evidence that billboards and signs are a contributory factor to road accidents. (study carried out by Human Factors Analysts Ltd. (HFAL) associated with the University of Strathclyde.
EBBs and Driversafety - Research Report
I just came across a final report about the following research in 2001 by the Human Centered Systems Team Office of Safety Research and Development Federal Highway Administration:
Research Review Of Potential Safety Effects Of Electronic Billboards On Driver Attention And Distraction
Advances in display technology and decreases in cost have created interest to expand the deployment of high resolution and dynamic imaging. The introduction of such technology to billboards, where static displays of advertising have been the standard, raises questions on the effects that electronic billboards (EBBs) may have on drivers' attention. Based on conversations with government staff and examination of state regulations, the literature review summarized state billboard regulations and policies relevant to EBBs and tri-vision signs. The review then encompassed billboard-related crash analyses and potential safety factors such as distraction, conspicuity, and legibility. Due to the limited amount of research regarding external distraction in drivers, internal distractions, such as in-vehicle information systems and cellular telephones, were used as surrogates when investigating how potential distractions affect the driver. Roadway characteristics that were recognized for future research in the knowledge gap section include horizontal and vertical curves, intersections, work zones, and EBB billboard spacing. EBBs and tri-vision sign characteristics and their proposed research questions are related to an EBB's message content and comprehensibility, exposure time, motion, and sign maintenance. Finally, research questions related to driver characteristics are directed to age and route familiarity.
Research Review Of Potential Safety Effects Of Electronic Billboards On Driver Attention And Distraction
Advances in display technology and decreases in cost have created interest to expand the deployment of high resolution and dynamic imaging. The introduction of such technology to billboards, where static displays of advertising have been the standard, raises questions on the effects that electronic billboards (EBBs) may have on drivers' attention. Based on conversations with government staff and examination of state regulations, the literature review summarized state billboard regulations and policies relevant to EBBs and tri-vision signs. The review then encompassed billboard-related crash analyses and potential safety factors such as distraction, conspicuity, and legibility. Due to the limited amount of research regarding external distraction in drivers, internal distractions, such as in-vehicle information systems and cellular telephones, were used as surrogates when investigating how potential distractions affect the driver. Roadway characteristics that were recognized for future research in the knowledge gap section include horizontal and vertical curves, intersections, work zones, and EBB billboard spacing. EBBs and tri-vision sign characteristics and their proposed research questions are related to an EBB's message content and comprehensibility, exposure time, motion, and sign maintenance. Finally, research questions related to driver characteristics are directed to age and route familiarity.
Television - Turn it off!
"It's TV-Turnoff Week and campaigners are urging us to take a screen break. But what chance have they got against Britain's most intrusive TVs? To find out, David Ward joins the outdoor snooker viewers in Manchester city centre...
What are Britain's most annoying public TVs? Email: g2@guardian.co.uk"
published in The Guardian, Tuesday April 26, 2005
What are Britain's most annoying public TVs? Email: g2@guardian.co.uk"
published in The Guardian, Tuesday April 26, 2005
Content Production - Get in the Loop
"Getting started in Electronic Digital Signage (EDS) involves understanding how messages are created and sent, as well as all your options.
Mounting signs in display cases, and then changing them periodically, will soon be a quaint, rather than a routine, practice. Computer sign design has now resulted in a new advertising realm. Remove the printer from the picture, replace it with a dedicated network of video displays and -- voila! -- the result is direct-market advertising via electronic digital signage (EDS)...."
Faces in the Fountain
"Chicago's Millennium Park features high-tech public fountain
The Crown Fountain at Chicago's new $475 million Millennium Park is artwork for the people. Children and adults splash in the shallow pool on the fountain's floor. The recorded faces of 1,000 Chicagoans take their turn gracing the fountain's giant electronic digital displays — each face ends its 12-minute reign over the crowd by 'spitting' water through pursed lips."
The Crown Fountain at Chicago's new $475 million Millennium Park is artwork for the people. Children and adults splash in the shallow pool on the fountain's floor. The recorded faces of 1,000 Chicagoans take their turn gracing the fountain's giant electronic digital displays — each face ends its 12-minute reign over the crowd by 'spitting' water through pursed lips."
Tower Power
"Toronto's latest signage spectacular makes an impact on Dundas Square.
Seven years ago, the intersection of Toronto's Yonge and Dundas streets was declining. Seeing the downward trend, development and city leaders joined forces to revitalize the area....
Today, the newly developed area features an urban pulse designed to draw both residents and tourists to Dundas Square. In addition to the park and concert area, large billboards and sign spectaculars noticeably characterize the area’s development..."
Locals against electronic billboards above subway entrances
Urban Display Network LLC installed LED billboarts at 80 locations at high traffic, street-level subway entrances in Manhattan, New York City. At 79th and Broadway on the West Side, an one was removed due to local residents protests. (see comment by Robert Lederman)
Space invaders
Some interesting figueres about advertising in public space of Toronto in 2002.
"While the city moves to curb postering -- and freedom of radical expression in the process -- more of our public space is being offered up so advertisers can shape our desires. From mental stress to traffic accidents, the billboard takeover is becoming a hazard to our health."
Published in NOW Magazine Online Edition in October 2002
http://www.nowtoronto.com
"While the city moves to curb postering -- and freedom of radical expression in the process -- more of our public space is being offered up so advertisers can shape our desires. From mental stress to traffic accidents, the billboard takeover is becoming a hazard to our health."
Published in NOW Magazine Online Edition in October 2002
http://www.nowtoronto.com
Medienfassaden
"Hochhausfassaden werden zu gigantischen Bildschirmen. Straßenzüge mutieren zu gewaltigen Lichtshows. In den Metropolen der Welt hat der Trend zum bewegten Bild am Bau den öffentlichen Raum erobert. Immer mehr Unternehmen nutzen die Multimedia-Fassaden auch für Werbezwecke..."
Ein Artilkel von Wolfgang Lanzenberger, erschienen in:
CineChart, Zeitschrift für Medien/Kultur/Gesellschaft/Trends und Fakten. Ausgabe 15, Februar 04
Ein Artilkel von Wolfgang Lanzenberger, erschienen in:
CineChart, Zeitschrift für Medien/Kultur/Gesellschaft/Trends und Fakten. Ausgabe 15, Februar 04
Related links
Here are the first links, I recommend to have a closer look at!
www-ru.screens.ru
an online journal about large LED screens
www.interactionfield.de
in the open list you can find various examples of interactive screening projects
http://web.mit.edu/lira/www/lira_research.htm
a paper by Lira Nikolowska about large scale information displays and the city
www-ru.screens.ru
an online journal about large LED screens
www.interactionfield.de
in the open list you can find various examples of interactive screening projects
http://web.mit.edu/lira/www/lira_research.htm
a paper by Lira Nikolowska about large scale information displays and the city
05 May 2005
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