Media Art and the Urban Environment: Engendering Public Engagement with Urban Ecology [Hardcover]

This text formally appraises the innovative ways new media artists engage urban ecology. Highlighting the role of artists as agents of technological change, the work reviews new modes of seeing, representing and connecting within the urban setting. The book describes how technology can be exploited in order to create artworks that transcend the technologys original purpose, thus expanding the language of environmental engagement whilst also demonstrating a clear understanding of the societal issues and values being addressed. Features: assesses how data from smart cities may be used to create artworks that can recast residents understanding of urban space; examines transformations of urban space through the reimagining of urban information; discusses the engagement of urban residents with street art, including collaborative community art projects and public digital media installations; presents perspectives from a diverse range of practicing artists, architects, urban planners and critical theorists.

Toward an Ecological Urbanism: Public Engagement in Contemporary Art Practice.- Exploring Environmental Stewardship through Data-driven Practices.- Experiential Ecologies: a Transdisciplinary Framework for Embodiment and Simulacra.- Uncultivated: an Evolutionary Drama in the Urban Environment.- Alone Together in the Dark: Horror Based Artworks and Fan Participation in Urban and Extra-Urban Space.- Mobile Maps of Chameleonic Cities: Urban Cartographies and Methodological Procedures and Experiences.- Electric Signs.- Overload/Absence: the Collapse of Space to Surface in Representations of Urban Space.- Design as Topology: U-City.- The Emergent City: 2004  2012.- The Art of Urban Engagement.- Our Place on That Wall: Community Online Art Projects.- Digitized Street Art.- Solar Cycle 24: 15 Nightly Projections.

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