Video as Urban Condition
How video shapes urban experience. Video as Urban Condition hosts a series of Thursday-evening discussions formed around the following themes:
19.4.07, 7 - 11 pm
Public space and personal media politics
26.4.07, 7 - 11 pm
This is a Simulation: Model cities, wish images and playgrounds
10.5.07, 7 - 11 pm
Closed Circuits: Voyeurism, (self-)control and TV
Video as Urban Condition presents an open archive and discussion space, exploring how video shapes urban experience. Explore the video archive, join the discussion, contribute.
Video as Urban Condition reflects on the mutability of video as it shifts between fact an ficition, entertainment and persuasion, urban fantasy and reality-TV, art and activism, surveillance and control - tracing the web of interactions between media and architecture, subject and commodity, identity and desire, the city and its phantasmagoria.
