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Urban Media Archaeology
Fall 2011Shannon Mattern
Rory Solomon
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Mapping MediaDisciplinary Tendency
to Focus on Content, on Representation
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Movielocationsguide.com
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Via Alien Loves Predator: http://alienlovespredator.com/2011/05/04/new-york-movie-map/
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Movie Map iPhone App:http://www.shinyshiny.tv/2010/07/moviemap_iphone.html
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How would you map the institution of film
– the networks through which it gets produced, distributed, consumed,
etc.?
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What other media “institutions” might we better understand if we
were to consider their spatial or geographic
qualities?
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eBoy, FooBar
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AT&T Coverage: http://www.wireless.att.com/coverageviewer
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The locations, heights and age of the mobile phone antenna installations filed with the Department of
Buildings since 2005.http://urbanomnibus.net/2011/07/signal-space/
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http://auth.nycwireless.net/hotspots_map.php
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Cell Phone Coverage Android App: http://bit.ly/nN9eLf
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http://senseable.mit.edu/currentcity/index.html | http://vimeo.com/1839628
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OPTE, Map of the Internet: http://www.opte.org/maps/
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Kevin Kelly’s Internet Mapping Project: http://www.kk.org/internet-mapping/
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What are the politics of these maps?
What analytical tools and methods do we employ in Media Studies that might
help us to understand these maps as media
themselves?
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http://www.anothercupdevelopment.org/projects
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See Lisa Parks @ Where 2.0
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Consider the vertical dimension of urban media networks – the z axisMichael Chen & Justin Snider, Signal Space: http://urbanomnibus.net/2011/07/signal-space/
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“A city...is not a flattenable graph. In a city, networks overlap upon other networks” (Friedrich Kittler, “The City is a Medium,”
New Literary History 27:4 (1996): 719)
Brian McGrath/Skyscraper Museum, Manhattan Timeformations, 2000
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“[N]ew infrastructures do not so much supercede old ones as ride on top of them, forming physical and organizational palimpsests – telephone lines follow railway lines, and over time these pathways have not been diffused, but rather etched more deeply into the urban landscape”
(Kazys Varnelis, “The Centripetal City: Telecommunications, the Internet, and the Shaping of the Modern Urban Environment” Cabinet 17 (Spring 2004/5): 27-8)
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http://www.wordsinspace.net/wordpress/2010/07/20/from-fire-alarms-to-copy-machines-local-primary-materials-on-urban-media-history/
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Derek Watkins: Visualizing US Expansion Through Post Offices: http://derekwatkins.wordpress.com/2011/08/06/posted/ http://vimeo.com/27376376
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http://spacingtoronto.ca/2008/10/26/torontos-corridor-of-power/
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