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The Urban Spectator is a lively and utterly fascinating exploration of the ways in which technologies have influenced our collective conception of the American city, as well as our relationship with urban space and architecture. Eric Gordon argues that the city, developing late and in conjunction with a range of modern media, produced a particular way of seeing--what he(...)
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The Urban Spectator is a lively and utterly fascinating exploration of the ways in which technologies have influenced our collective conception of the American city, as well as our relationship with urban space and architecture. Eric Gordon argues that the city, developing late and in conjunction with a range of modern media, produced a particular way of seeing--what he(...)
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The urban spectator: American concept-cities from Kodak to Google
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The Urban Spectator is a lively and utterly fascinating exploration of the ways in which technologies have influenced our collective conception of the American city, as well as our relationship with urban space and architecture. Eric Gordon argues that the city, developing late and in conjunction with a range of modern media, produced a particular way of seeing--what he labels "possessive spectatorship." Lacking the historical rootedness of European cities, the American city was open to individual interpretation, definition, and ownership. Beginning with the White City of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the efforts to commodify the concept city through photography, Gordon shows how the American city has always been a product of the collision between the dominant conceptualization, shaped by contemporary media, and the spectator. From the viewfinder of the Kodak camera, to the public display of early cinema, to the speculative desire of network radio, all the way to machine-age utopianism, nostalgia, and America's "rerun" culture, the city is an amalgam of practice and concept. All of this comes to a head in the "database city" where urban spectatorship takes on the characteristics of a Google search. In new urban developments, the spectator searches, retrieves, and combines urban references to construct each experience of the city.
The urban spectator: American concept-cities from Kodak to Google
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The Urban Spectator is a lively and utterly fascinating exploration of the ways in which technologies have influenced our collective conception of the American city, as well as our relationship with urban space and architecture. Eric Gordon argues that the city, developing late and in conjunction with a range of modern media, produced a particular way of seeing--what he labels "possessive spectatorship." Lacking the historical rootedness of European cities, the American city was open to individual interpretation, definition, and ownership. Beginning with the White City of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the efforts to commodify the concept city through photography, Gordon shows how the American city has always been a product of the collision between the dominant conceptualization, shaped by contemporary media, and the spectator. From the viewfinder of the Kodak camera, to the public display of early cinema, to the speculative desire of network radio, all the way to machine-age utopianism, nostalgia, and America's "rerun" culture, the city is an amalgam of practice and concept. All of this comes to a head in the "database city" where urban spectatorship takes on the characteristics of a Google search. In new urban developments, the spectator searches, retrieves, and combines urban references to construct each experience of the city.
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February 2010
February 2010
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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Fifty years ago, in 1964, Minoru Yamasaki’s proposed design for the World Trade Center was first revealed to the public. Rising far above the Lower Manhattan skyline, the Twin Towers—centerpieces of the original World Trade Center complex—were intended, in the words of their architect, to “become a living representation of man’s belief in humanity.” From the beginning,(...)
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Fifty years ago, in 1964, Minoru Yamasaki’s proposed design for the World Trade Center was first revealed to the public. Rising far above the Lower Manhattan skyline, the Twin Towers—centerpieces of the original World Trade Center complex—were intended, in the words of their architect, to “become a living representation of man’s belief in humanity.” From the beginning,(...)
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CLOG 12 2014: World Trade Center
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Fifty years ago, in 1964, Minoru Yamasaki’s proposed design for the World Trade Center was first revealed to the public. Rising far above the Lower Manhattan skyline, the Twin Towers—centerpieces of the original World Trade Center complex—were intended, in the words of their architect, to “become a living representation of man’s belief in humanity.” From the beginning, the project was not without controversy. Positioned at the confluence of several transportation routes, an entire district known as “Radio Row” would be claimed through eminent domain and demolished to make way for the new center of commerce. The abstract—arguably overpowering—design invited fierce criticism. Nevertheless, Yamasaki and associate architects Emery Roth & Sons would devote over a decade to the design and construction of the World Trade Center, which proved significant not only as an urban renewal project, but also as an architectural and engineering marvel. By the time of their destruction, the Twin Towers were one of New York City’s most prominent icons. With the new World Trade Center slowly approaching completion, the importance and irreplaceability of the original becomes more evident. CLOG will therefore critically examine that which has forever been lost: the World Trade Center, Dedicated April 4, 1973.
CLOG 12 2014: World Trade Center
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Fifty years ago, in 1964, Minoru Yamasaki’s proposed design for the World Trade Center was first revealed to the public. Rising far above the Lower Manhattan skyline, the Twin Towers—centerpieces of the original World Trade Center complex—were intended, in the words of their architect, to “become a living representation of man’s belief in humanity.” From the beginning, the project was not without controversy. Positioned at the confluence of several transportation routes, an entire district known as “Radio Row” would be claimed through eminent domain and demolished to make way for the new center of commerce. The abstract—arguably overpowering—design invited fierce criticism. Nevertheless, Yamasaki and associate architects Emery Roth & Sons would devote over a decade to the design and construction of the World Trade Center, which proved significant not only as an urban renewal project, but also as an architectural and engineering marvel. By the time of their destruction, the Twin Towers were one of New York City’s most prominent icons. With the new World Trade Center slowly approaching completion, the importance and irreplaceability of the original becomes more evident. CLOG will therefore critically examine that which has forever been lost: the World Trade Center, Dedicated April 4, 1973.
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January 2015
January 2015
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On associe spontanément Pierre Perrault à l’île aux Coudres ou à l’Abitibi, au Grand Nord ou à l’Acadie, à cause des films qu’il a tournés dans ces régions. Pourtant, cet amoureux du pays du Québec n’en aimait pas moins sa ville natale, Montréal. Dans J’habite une ville, une série d’émissions qu’il a réalisées pour la radio en 1965, il portait sur la métropole le même(...)
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On associe spontanément Pierre Perrault à l’île aux Coudres ou à l’Abitibi, au Grand Nord ou à l’Acadie, à cause des films qu’il a tournés dans ces régions. Pourtant, cet amoureux du pays du Québec n’en aimait pas moins sa ville natale, Montréal. Dans J’habite une ville, une série d’émissions qu’il a réalisées pour la radio en 1965, il portait sur la métropole le même(...)
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Pierre Perrault : J'habite une ville
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On associe spontanément Pierre Perrault à l’île aux Coudres ou à l’Abitibi, au Grand Nord ou à l’Acadie, à cause des films qu’il a tournés dans ces régions. Pourtant, cet amoureux du pays du Québec n’en aimait pas moins sa ville natale, Montréal. Dans J’habite une ville, une série d’émissions qu’il a réalisées pour la radio en 1965, il portait sur la métropole le même regard de poète ethnologue qui l’a rendu célèbre par ses films. Daniel Laforest propose ici un montage à partir des textes de cette série radiophonique, où alternent la voix du poète et celle des personnes qu’il a interviewées. C’est un Montréal déjà disparu qui revit dans ces pages : on y croise des laitiers qui font encore la livraison à domicile le matin, des débardeurs qui déchargent les marchandises à la force des bras avec leur crochet, des vieillards qui évoquent la vie de quartier dans leur enfance. C’est aussi le Montréal vibrant et industrieux des ouvriers des abattoirs ou des monteurs d’acier, de tout un peuple de travailleurs qui s’affairent et qui s’agitent par tous les temps, et dont Pierre Perrault recueille la parole modeste et à hauteur d’homme pour la sauvegarder et la magnifier. Et, parmi ces témoins, on a parfois la surprise de rencontrer des gens plus connus, comme Robert Roussil ou Ti-Jean Carignan.
Pierre Perrault : J'habite une ville
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On associe spontanément Pierre Perrault à l’île aux Coudres ou à l’Abitibi, au Grand Nord ou à l’Acadie, à cause des films qu’il a tournés dans ces régions. Pourtant, cet amoureux du pays du Québec n’en aimait pas moins sa ville natale, Montréal. Dans J’habite une ville, une série d’émissions qu’il a réalisées pour la radio en 1965, il portait sur la métropole le même regard de poète ethnologue qui l’a rendu célèbre par ses films. Daniel Laforest propose ici un montage à partir des textes de cette série radiophonique, où alternent la voix du poète et celle des personnes qu’il a interviewées. C’est un Montréal déjà disparu qui revit dans ces pages : on y croise des laitiers qui font encore la livraison à domicile le matin, des débardeurs qui déchargent les marchandises à la force des bras avec leur crochet, des vieillards qui évoquent la vie de quartier dans leur enfance. C’est aussi le Montréal vibrant et industrieux des ouvriers des abattoirs ou des monteurs d’acier, de tout un peuple de travailleurs qui s’affairent et qui s’agitent par tous les temps, et dont Pierre Perrault recueille la parole modeste et à hauteur d’homme pour la sauvegarder et la magnifier. Et, parmi ces témoins, on a parfois la surprise de rencontrer des gens plus connus, comme Robert Roussil ou Ti-Jean Carignan.
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June 2012
June 2012
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Architecture de Montréal
Architecture de Montréal
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The relationship between the body and electronic technology, extensively theorized through the 1980s and 1990s, has reached a new technosensual comfort zone in the early twenty-first century. In "Sensorium", contemporary artists and writers explore the implications of the techno-human interface. Ten artists, chosen by an international team of curators, offer their own(...)
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The relationship between the body and electronic technology, extensively theorized through the 1980s and 1990s, has reached a new technosensual comfort zone in the early twenty-first century. In "Sensorium", contemporary artists and writers explore the implications of the techno-human interface. Ten artists, chosen by an international team of curators, offer their own(...)
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Contemporary Art Monographs
Contemporary Art Monographs
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October 2006, Cambridge, Mass.
October 2006, Cambridge, Mass.
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Sensorium : embodied experience, technology, and contemporary art
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The relationship between the body and electronic technology, extensively theorized through the 1980s and 1990s, has reached a new technosensual comfort zone in the early twenty-first century. In "Sensorium", contemporary artists and writers explore the implications of the techno-human interface. Ten artists, chosen by an international team of curators, offer their own edgy investigations of embodied technology and the technologized body. These range from Matthieu Briand's experiment in "controlled schizophrenia" and Janet Cardiff and Georges Bures Miller's uneasy psychological soundscapes to Bruce Nauman's uncanny night visions and François Roche's destabilized architecture. The art in "Sensorium" - which accompanies an exhibition at the MIT List Visual Arts Center - captures the aesthetic attitude of this hybrid moment, when modernist segmentation of the senses is giving way to dramatic multisensory mixes or transpositions. Artwork by each artist appears with an analytical essay by a curator, all of it prefaced by an anchoring essay on "The Mediated Sensorium" by Caroline Jones. In the second half of "Sensorium", scholars, scientists, and writers contribute entries to an "Abecedarius of the New Sensorium." These short, playful pieces include Bruno Latour on "Air," Barbara Maria Stafford on "Hedonics," Michel Foucault (from a little-known 1966 radio lecture) on the "Utopian Body," Donna Haraway on "Compoundings," and Neal Stephenson on the "Viral." Sensorium is both forensic and diagnostic, viewing the culture of the technologized body from the inside, by means of contemporary artists' provocations, and from a distance, in essays that situate it historically and intellectually.
Sensorium : embodied experience, technology, and contemporary art
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The relationship between the body and electronic technology, extensively theorized through the 1980s and 1990s, has reached a new technosensual comfort zone in the early twenty-first century. In "Sensorium", contemporary artists and writers explore the implications of the techno-human interface. Ten artists, chosen by an international team of curators, offer their own edgy investigations of embodied technology and the technologized body. These range from Matthieu Briand's experiment in "controlled schizophrenia" and Janet Cardiff and Georges Bures Miller's uneasy psychological soundscapes to Bruce Nauman's uncanny night visions and François Roche's destabilized architecture. The art in "Sensorium" - which accompanies an exhibition at the MIT List Visual Arts Center - captures the aesthetic attitude of this hybrid moment, when modernist segmentation of the senses is giving way to dramatic multisensory mixes or transpositions. Artwork by each artist appears with an analytical essay by a curator, all of it prefaced by an anchoring essay on "The Mediated Sensorium" by Caroline Jones. In the second half of "Sensorium", scholars, scientists, and writers contribute entries to an "Abecedarius of the New Sensorium." These short, playful pieces include Bruno Latour on "Air," Barbara Maria Stafford on "Hedonics," Michel Foucault (from a little-known 1966 radio lecture) on the "Utopian Body," Donna Haraway on "Compoundings," and Neal Stephenson on the "Viral." Sensorium is both forensic and diagnostic, viewing the culture of the technologized body from the inside, by means of contemporary artists' provocations, and from a distance, in essays that situate it historically and intellectually.
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October 2006, Cambridge, Mass.
October 2006, Cambridge, Mass.
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Contemporary Art Monographs
Contemporary Art Monographs
