Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Shannon Mattern
The New School wordsinspace.net
Halifax, Canada
This modest indentation on the Canadian coastline is a major Internet landmark, a sort of Ellis Island of the Web: Its where a submarine cable owned by Hibernia Atlantic comes ashore. (Eleven major lines cross the Atlantic, and this one lands under the manhole, above left.) This particular bit started at a Hibernia sister station in Southport, England, and traversed the ocean in about 0.0028 second. It will then skip along one of two fiber-optic thoroughfares: the crossCanada pipe, which goes to Montreal and points west, or the southern route, down the East Coast, through Boston to New York City.
Via Blum, Netscapes, Wired: http://bit.ly/8ZmQIl
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MEDIA CITY
Salford, UK
Dubai
Seoul
William Henry Fox Talbot: West Front, York Minster, from Lendal Street, ca. 1845
Berenice Abbott: Newsstand, 32nd Street and Third Avenue, Manhattan, 1935
Charles Marville, Rue Basse-des-Ursins, le de la Cit, 1865; The Piercing of the Avenue de lOpra, 1865
Robert Venturi & Denise Scott Brown, Las Vegas Studio, 1968
Inception, 2010
Levittown, PA
has been underway at least since the development of technological images in the context of urban modernization in the mid19th century (Scott McQuire, The Media City, 2008, p. vii)
from the hand-held camera at the end of the 19th century to the mobile phone at the end of the 20th, the city has always been a mediated construct (Eric Gordon, The
Urban Spectator, 2010, p. 2)
Serlio, Primo Libro, 1551; Paju Book City, South Korea, under construction
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Richard Pare, View of the Shabolovka Radio Tower, Moscow, Russia, 2000 CCA Collection
CCA Collection
Dhaka
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View of the Acropolis from the Pnyx via WallyG on Flickr: http://bit.ly/Lcb8Fd
CCA Collection
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Pirate radio: transmitter, microwave link, antennae, transmission and studio sites; records, record shops, studios, dub plates; turntables, mixers, amplifiers, headphones; microphones; mobile phones, SMS, voice; reception technologies, reception locations, DJ tapes; drugs; clubs, parties; flyers, stickers, posters [A]s all the various elements organize in combination within the sound, across the city, through a jumble of available media, there is also a sense in which the polyphony traversing the signal echoes a wider sense of connective disjuncture as a crucial term of composition The media ecology is synthesized by the broke-up combination of parts
Matthew Fuller, Media Ecologies