![]() ![]() ![]() As mobile architecture these urban screens demonstrate how our current visual regime of navigation functions. This twin logic is inherent in the intersection of spatial design (architecture) and mobile and location-based technologies that offer tools for spatial orientation (cartography). In so doing, they demonstrate a combination of architectural and cartographic logic. These very different examples of urban screens both construct temporary and mobile architectures for spatial extension and connectivity. Dos Passos attended Harvard University, went to Spain, France, Italy, Russia and other countries in Europe during times of (world) wars and socialist riots. They are a " selfie pillar " as an example of screen-based contemporary urban advertising and narrowcasting, and the public art project The Bridge, designed for a large, traveling urban screen. ![]() I take as my theoretical objects two urban screens that, while demonstrating the architectural principles of screen-based dispositifs, simultaneously challenge conventional ideas of architecture as fixed, stable, and permanent. ![]() Digital screens installed in the city, often in conjunction with location-based and mobile media technologies, provide interfaces that intervene temporarily, yet fundamentally, in the built environment. In this essay I consider urban screens as mobile media architecture. After reading Babbitt and The Great Gatsby in tandem with my presidents series, I thought that I would move on to. ![]()
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