Imagining the City brings together the work of designers, artists, dancers and media specialists who cross the borders of design and artistic practices to investigate how we perceive the city; how we imagine it; experience it and how we might design it. It breaks disciplinary boundaries to provocatively open the field of urban analysis and thought to the perspectives and approaches of creatives from non-urban disciplines. It is split into three sections that cover approaches to documenting and recording the city through various media formats; examinations of how our perception and engagement with urban environments is changed by interactions with new media; and actual case studies of art practices and projects that engage with the city.
Imagining the City brings together the work of designers, artists, dancers and media specialists who cross the borders of design and artistic practices to investigate how we perceive the city; how we imagine it; experience it and how we might design it. It breaks disciplinary boundaries to provocatively open the field of urban analysis and thought to the perspectives and approaches of creatives from non-urban disciplines. It is split into three sections that cover approaches to documenting and recording the city through various media formats; examinations of how our perception and engagement with urban environments is changed by interactions with new media; and actual case studies of art practices and projects that engage with the city.
Foreword
Graham Cairns Introduction
Steve Hawley Section One: Theories of Media, Memory and
Imagination
Various Chapter One: Territories of image: Disposition and
disorientation in Google Earth
Lawrence Bird Chapter Two: Manchester as a mythical city:
Reflections in art and locative media
Steve Hawley Chapter Three: From under your skin
John Zissovici Chapter Four: CitySpaceMindSpace
Terry Flaxton Chapter Five: Mapping the city as remembered
and the city as imaged
Jelena Stankovic Intersection One: A city of grids and
algorithms and soundtracks in cars and planes and glass
Joshua Singer Section Two: Applications - Traditional
Technologies of Perception an the Imagination
Various Chapter Six: Sep Yama/Finding Country to Burning
City Studios
Kevin O'Brien Chapter Seven: Surface tension: Experimental
dance films and the undoing of urban space
Sylvie Vitaglione Chapter Eight: Thresh, hold
Dirk de Bruyn Chapter Nine: Qualities of lustrous
gatherings
Reit Eeckhout and Ephraim Joris Intersection Two: Sick city:
An introduction
Heron-Mazy (Anon) Section Three: Interventions in Design and
Experience - New Media and Technologies in the City
Various Chapter Ten: Belén's Social Repair Kit: Collective
data visualization and participatory civic agency
Ivan Chaparro Chapter Eleven:Read or follow? Designing with
mobile technologies and digital space
Natalie Rowland Chapter Twelve: Musing publics: Arts and
idea in motion
Michael Jemtrud Epilogue
Edward M. Clift
Steve Hawley is professor and associate dean for research at the Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University.
Edward M. Clift is president of Brooks Institute in Ventura, California. He is one of the editors of Filming the City and Imaging the City.
Kevin O’Brien has 20 years architectural experience in public and private works in Australia. In October 2006 he established Kevin O’Brien Architects in Brisbane, QLD. He is also one of the editors of Imaging the City.
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