The poetics of urban media surfaces

First Monday

Volumn 4, Issue SPECIAL ISSUE, 2006, Pages

  Manovich, Lev ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84891644671     PISSN: 13960466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5210/fm.v0i0.1545     Document Type: Article

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1. Coined in 1998 by David S. Bennahum, the term "cellspace" originally referred to the then new ability to access e-mail or the Internet wirelessly. Here I am using the term in a broader sense.
2. It is interesting to think of GPS (Global Positioning System) as a particular case of cellspace. Rather than being tied to an object or a building, here the information is a property of the Earth as a whole. A user equipped with a GPS receiver can retrieve a particular type of information relative to their location - the coordinates of this location. GPS systems are gradually is being integrated into various telecommunication and transportation technologies, from cell phones, to PDAs, to cars.
3. Recall the opening scene of Blade Runner (1982) in which the whole side of a high-rise building acts as a screen.
4. M. Weiser, "The Computer for the Twenty-first Century," Scientific American, 265(3):94-104, September 1991.
5. W. MacKay, G. Velay, K. Carter, C. Ma, and D. Pagani, "Augmenting Reality: Adding Computational Dimensions to Paper," Communications of the ACM , 36(7):96-97, 1993. Kevin Bonsor, "How Augmented Reality Will Work," http://www.howstuffworks.com/augmented-reality.htm.
6. See the 'Tangible Bits' project at the MIT Media Lab, http://tangible.media.mit.edu/projects/Tangible_Bits/projects.htm.
7. Guido Appenzeller, Intelligent Space Project (http://gunpowder.Stanford.EDU/appenz/ISpace/); Intelligent Room Projects, AI Lab, MIT. (http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/iroom/projects.shtml).
8. Tom Moran and Paul Dourish, "Introduction to the Special Issue on Context-aware Computing, "Human Computer Interaction, 16:108, 2001.
9. Ivan Noble, "E-paper Moves a Step Nearer," BBC News Online,23 April, 2001. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1292000/1292852.stm).
10. This passive and melancholic quality of video art was brilliantly staged in a recent exhibition design by LO/TEK, Making Time: Considering Time as a Material in Contemporary Video & Film, in the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles (February 4 - April 29, 2001). As Norman Klein pointed out to me, LO/TEK designed a kind of collective tomb - a cemetery for video art.
11. Overview of Diller + Scofilio projects can be found at http://www.labiennaledivenezia.net/it/archi/7mostra/architetti/diller/open.htm.
12. Raymond Wang, " Langham Place offices to roll next month," The Standard (Greater China's Business Newspaper), 19 June 2004 (www.thestandard.com.hk/thestandard/news_detail_frame.cfm?articleid=48588&intcatid=1).
13. Robert Venturi, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1966); Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour,Learning from Las Vegas(Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press,1972.)
14. Robert Venturi, Iconography and Electronics upon a Generic Architecture: A View from the Drafting Room (MIT Press, 1996).
15. Robert Venturi in a dialogue with George Legrady at the Entertainment and Value Conference, University of California, Santa Barbara, May 4, 2002. The term I 'information surface' is mine.
16. See http://prixars.aec.at/history/interactive/2000/E00int_01.htm.
17. See http://www.manovich.net/IA.
18. See Ineke Schwartz, "Testing Ground for Interactivity: The Water Pavilions by Lars Spuybroek and Kas Oosterhuis," http://synworld.t0.or.at/level3/text_archive/testing_ground.htm.
19. Otto Riewoldt, qtd. in Mark Hooper, "Sex and Shopping," ID, The DNA Issue (2001), 94.
20. For an insightful analysis of the branding phenomenon, see Naomi Klein, No Logo (New York : Picador, 2000).
21. Reed Kram, personal communication with the author, June 5, 2002. For more Kram projects, see www.kramdesign.com/.
22. Riewoldt, qtd. in Hooper, 2000.