Building as Screen

Dave Colangelo is Professor of Digital Experience Design in the School of Design at George Brown College, Director, North America, of the Media Architecture Institute, and Co-Founder of Public Visualization Studio.

Winner of the SCMS 2021 Anne Friedberg Innovative Scholarship Award! Committee members Mark Gallagher (Chair), Erica Stein, Kara Andersen reported, "The winning title was a consensus choice that all on the committee ranked highly and were pleased to champion."

• Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Chapter 1: Introducing Massive Media - From the Top - Why Massive Media? - A Brief History of the Public Sphere, Monumentality, and Media * The Most Advanced Site of Struggle: The Public Sphere * Looking Up Together: Monumentality * A Modern Monument for the Modern Masses * Space and Media * Accelerated Rituals * Reverie Amidst the Real * Entering Supermodernism - How This Book Works Chapter 2: Experiments in Large-scale Projection and the (New) New Monumentality - Moving Images - A Short history of the Moving Image in Public Space - Architecture, Expanded Cinema, and the New Monumentality - The Image Mill * Superimposition and Massive Media: Super Imposing * Spatial Montage: Extra Diegetic * Dispositif and Apparatus: Staging the City - McLarena: Recentring the Audience * Participation: Don't Just Sit There and Watch * Place Branding and Theatricality - A New (New) Monumentality? - Experiments in Public Projection * 30 moons many hands * The Line - A Perceptual Laboratory for Popular Needs and Aspirations Chapter 3: The Empire State Building and the Roles of Low-Resolution Media Façades in a Data Society - This Building is on Fire - A Short History of the Empire State Building * Colours and Meanings - Understanding Contemporary Dimensions of Public Data Visualizations - The Empire State Building as Monumental Public Data Visualization - Experiments in Public Data Visualization * E-TOWER * In The Air, Tonight - Temporary Intensities and Collective Conversations in Supermodern, Relational Space Chapter 4: Curating Massive Media - Changing Spaces - A Short History of Public Screen Practice - Massive Media and Public Art - What People Have in (The) Common - Connecting Cities - Streaming Museum - Curating the Ryerson Image Arts Building - Connecting Sites and Streams Chapter 5: When Buildings Become Screens - Dancing with Buildings - Tactics and Strategies - More Massive, More Media Bibliography Index