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Urban Media Archaeology
Fall 2011Shannon Mattern
Rory Solomon
Mapping MediaDisciplinary Tendency
to Focus on Content, on Representation
Movielocationsguide.com
Via Alien Loves Predator: http://alienlovespredator.com/2011/05/04/new-york-movie-map/
Movie Map iPhone App:http://www.shinyshiny.tv/2010/07/moviemap_iphone.html
How would you map the institution of film
– the networks through which it gets produced, distributed, consumed,
etc.?
What other media “institutions” might we better understand if we
were to consider their spatial or geographic
qualities?
eBoy, FooBar
AT&T Coverage: http://www.wireless.att.com/coverageviewer
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/
http://auth.nycwireless.net/hotspots_map.php
Cell Phone Coverage Android App: http://bit.ly/nN9eLf
http://senseable.mit.edu/currentcity/index.html | http://vimeo.com/1839628
OPTE, Map of the Internet: http://www.opte.org/maps/
Kevin Kelly’s Internet Mapping Project: http://www.kk.org/internet-mapping/
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?
http://www.anothercupdevelopment.org/projects
http://www.vimeo.com/4758009 [through 10:06]
See Lisa Parks @ Where 2.0
Consider the vertical dimension of urban media networks – the z axisMichael Chen & Justin Snider, Signal Space: http://urbanomnibus.net/2011/07/signal-space/
“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
“[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)
http://www.wordsinspace.net/wordpress/2010/07/20/from-fire-alarms-to-copy-machines-local-primary-materials-on-urban-media-history/
Derek Watkins: Visualizing US Expansion Through Post Offices: http://derekwatkins.wordpress.com/2011/08/06/posted/ http://vimeo.com/27376376
http://spacingtoronto.ca/2008/10/26/torontos-corridor-of-power/