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Vintage Camera footage shot in London – Joseph Ernst
This antique camera, used to make short film Londoners, was found in a British warehouse. Photos courtesy Joseph Ernst In his quirky new short Londoners, director Joseph Ernst uses a hand-cranked camera from the 1920s to film contemporary city dwellers as they might have been portrayed during The Artist‘s glory days. The British ...
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Walking Through Time – Spectral Cities
Spectral Cities Ten years ago, at the Habitus 2000: A Sense of Place conference in Perth, Australia, the cultural geographer Steve Pile articulated the potential for cultural events within cities to bring back the dead and remind us of the past. During his talk, Pile described the occasion of the anti-capitalist march that had taken ...
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Duncan Shingleton and Tales of Things
One of the most interesting practitioners I have so far found Duncan is a digital artist and graduate of the Institute of Digital Art and Technology. He is interested in the creative application of RFID technologies, and his work has been presented at festivals such as the Dutch Electronic Arts Festival and Piksel. He is ...
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UBIQUITY: Journal of pervasive media
http://www.ubiquityjournal.net Aims and Scope ‘Ubiquity’, the ability to be everywhere at the same time, a potential historically attributed to the occult is now a common feature of the average mobile phone. The journal anticipates the consequences for design and research in a culture where everyone and everything is connected, and will offer a context ...
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‘Of Time and the City’ and URBAN REFLECTIONS
Our next event, on the 19th January, will be on cinematic visualisations of urban change and the passage of time. We will be celebrating the publication of Mark Tewdwr-Jones’ Urban Reflections: Narratives of Place, Planning and Change (Policy Press, 2011) with screenings on the theme of URBAN PLANNING and its relationship with the narrative strategies ...