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Urban Media Archaeology Fall 2011 Shannon Mattern Rory Solomon

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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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http://www.vimeo.com/4758009 [through 10:06]

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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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