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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.
Please follow the new festival blog!
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
"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

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

link by Tijmen Schep
28 January 2007
Cardboard beautification of video billboards

(still from the movie)
"Touch" - an urban interactive light installation

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
11 January 2007
Urban Screens in feature films

14 December 2006
Belarus library gets an LED facade

Amsterdam arts on the urban video screen at Rembrandt square
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

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

(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

11 October 2006
Cell Phone Disco - interacting with LEDs

thanks Auke!
06 October 2006
DingDotz LED fixtures for the facade of an Austrian bank
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?
Does anybody know who the architect is?

Refections about curating time-based art on a video billboard

Reactive Gap House - LED lightening for narrow building gaps

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

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
See documentation at youtube by Philips

17 August 2006
The Solar Obelisk
experimenting with the effect of this on the integrated information displays.

Wind Power LED Displays
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

18 April 2006
Bilboard war in Havanna LED screen used for political propaganda
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
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
06 January 2006
OpenAir Cinema

(thanksGeert for the link)
02 January 2006
Suburban Christmas Screens
(thanks Juergen for the hint)
19 December 2005
Screens filling up a 3d volume of space
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
Here a submission example :
Holographic screens turn shopwindows into interactive displays

(thanks Florian for this link at Future Feeder)
self sustainable analogue pixels for sunny weather

17 December 2005
TV-B-Gone - a comment on the growing ubiquity of TVs

15 December 2005
The human billboards
And another blogpost about human ad space and an article about advertising and the human billboard.

The biggest Screens: People as Pixels

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

27 November 2005
Hyperlinking Surfaces in the Physical World trough Image Recognition
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
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
"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

03 November 2005
List of Screens Networks
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
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
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

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
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
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
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
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
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
"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
(Amsterdam: Nov 2004 - July 2005)
Next stop: Technische Universiteit Eindhoven Oct 2005 - Febr 2006
17 August 2005
Billboards Depending on Sunshine

Thanks to Selene Kolman
09 August 2005
Smiles: the Large-Screen Vision at the EXPO 2005 Plaza
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

Context Sensitive Electronic Screens on Taxis
(via MIT Advertising Lab)
04 August 2005
A Personal Big Screen Connected to the Mobilephone

(via Tomorrow'sTrends)
03 August 2005
Wearable Smale Scale Urban Screens
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
TRANSMEDIA :29:59 - artworks on the Yonge-Dundas Square billboard, Toronto

A Digital Dragon to Attract Tourists to the Japanese Countryside

25 July 2005
List of Art Festivals and Screenings on Urban Screens
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
12 July 2005
Videoinstallation on 44 Russian 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
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
02 July 2005
BBCi Showcase - Street-level interactive displays
See also the article by Jessie Scanlon : "If Walls Could Talk, Streets Might Join In"
01 July 2005
Public Shared Displays - Three Research Papers
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
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
17 June 2005
Interactive Urban Screens: Designproposals for civic exchange
"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
"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
HORIZON - large screen artwork for Atlanta's airport
11 June 2005
Digital Billboard Hacking
See also "Traffic sign hacking in Florida"
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
Blow-up Screens for the Extended Family Picnic

08 June 2005
Advertising and the metabolism of the city (pdf)
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
"...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
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
thanks Julie
01 June 2005
Self Organized Low Tec Urban Screens

Thanks for the note Adam
28 May 2005
the largest LED billboard network in the world?
"...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
Passing Glances - Imagedatabase for urban screens
27 May 2005
Watching Mobile Gameplayers over their shoulder
The solution: Glasses against 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?
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
- a billboard that allows pedestrians to play a video game
- winning a car by sending an SMS to billboards
High-Tech Billboards
"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!
Urban Mediator: using interactive public screens as neighborhood boards
"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
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
19 May 2005
Electronic Screens as Part of Modern City Architecture

A giant pixelated screen - Galleria Seoul
More photos by Timo Arnall on Flickr
17 May 2005
Electronic-Paper Billboards
16 May 2005
rollable-display development
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

The screens.ru Journal about OLED Monitors
15 May 2005
Berlin in wrapping-fever
In a bit of time these canvas-covers will be surely digital...
09 May 2005
Put your SMS texts up on the big screen
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
"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
"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
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
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

"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
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
"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
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
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!
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
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
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
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

Space invaders
"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
Ein Artilkel von Wolfgang Lanzenberger, erschienen in:
CineChart, Zeitschrift für Medien/Kultur/Gesellschaft/Trends und Fakten. Ausgabe 15, Februar 04
Related links
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
