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The Alternativa 2013 curators have taken on the urgent subject of city planning and its ideologies as well as the everyday tactics of dwelling and inhabitation in it. Locating curatorial practice in the heart of the Gdansk Shipyard, Alternativa 2013 is both a result of research as much as a matter of concern for us.

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Paulo Cirio, Julian Oliver, Stephanie Rotheberg, Antoine Schmitt

MediaCity 4: MediaCities will feature commissioned urban works, results of an international call for proposals. These works touch on different aspects of this year’s themes, as we question the contemporary entanglements of digital media and urban life in cities around the world today – spaces of appearance, of exchange, and of identity.

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In my fourth and final post covering New Frontier at Sundance 2013, I explore the creative and innovative exploration of augmented space—which refers to technologies, objects, or symbols that overlay physical space with information. It is a new type of collage that makes use of a broad collection of forms and techniques. Keiichi Matsuda provides a good starting point from both technological and aesthetic perspectives.

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Urbanising Technology | Saskia Sassen at @LSECities Urban Age Electric City Conference

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Most rewarding in these two expansive surveys is witnessing Buren's subtle, deeply associative relationship to light, architecture, shape, and site-specificity, the formal richness of which do well to substantiate his greatly respected position as a preeminent figure of conceptual art and institutional critique.

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Elektra sparks debate about the creative city, computation arts and public space. The Montréal-based cultural initiative promotes avant-garde digital creation that unites creative media like music, video, cinema, design, gaming and audio or interactive installation with the latest digital technologies. Their discussion is presented in conjunction with ABC : MTL, an open-source initiative at the CCA that maps contemporary Montréal in a diversity of ways and media.

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Today, it is not revolutionary to state that data is the oil of the 21st century. Just like crude oil, data needs to be processed and refined. We are increasingly able to generate meaning from this data mining. Information and stories are extracted from refined data, creating value just as refined oil does. Meaningful data is what makes it possible for governments, companies and citizens to create new forms of interaction.

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The Archigram Archival Project makes the work of the seminal architectural group Archigram available free online for public viewing and academic study. The project was run by EXP, an architectural research group at the University of Westminster. It was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and made possible by the members of Archigram and their heirs, who retain copyright of all images.

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In today's cities, our everyday lives are increasingly shaped by digital media technologies. The Mobile City  is a research group that investigates this new urban condition and its implications for urban design.

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We are very pleased to announce the final nominees and winners in each of the five prize categories for the 2012 Media Architecture Biennale Awards.

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A forensic database of electrical sounds is thus being developed by UK police, according to the BBC. "For the last seven years, at the Metropolitan Police forensic lab in south London," we read, "audio specialists have been continuously recording the sound of mains electricity. It is an all pervasive hum that we normally cannot hear. But boost it a little, and a metallic and not very pleasant buzz fills the air."

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Hundreds of runners in specially commissioned LED light suits will create beautiful, choreographed patterns of light flowing over bridges and around public spaces and buildings that surround Salford Quays.

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Acoustic Space #7 Spectropia - illuminating investigations in electromagnetic spectrum (ed. by Rasa Smite, Armin Medosch)

Acoustic Space #6 Waves - electromagnetic waves as material and medium in art (ed. by Rasa Smite, Armin Medosch)

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This short film is an adaptation of the classic urban design tome - "The Image of the City" - by Associate Professor Kevin Lynch (1918-1984) of the Center for Urban and Regional Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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On Monday, the Empire State Building debuted it's first ever "light show," sponsored by Philips Color Kinetics and Clear Channel. Alicia Keys, whose songs Girl is on Fire and Empire State of Mind, served as the soundtrack to the innovative installation, flipped the switch and set midtown aglow. Monday's Empire State "performance" was the first time the building's lights became truly dynamic, after a brief trial during the election on November 6. When a state's electoral votes were in Romney's favor, the building was turned red, and when they favored Obama, it changed to blue.

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Exhibitions at the beginning of the twenty-first century are becoming spaces of flux.  The usual static exhibition and installation with labels and proper cues for visitors to keep a safe distance—which is likely the default image that comes to mind when one thinks of museums and other public institutions—is being replaced by displays and installations that encourage some form of visitor interaction.  Interactivity can take place directly with the object, an online resource, or downloadable virtual tours, often with the aim not only to have an aesthetic experience but also to inform visitors on some issue.  While this new approach is certainly exciting, it also places real challenges for institutions in the arts and other fields on how to organize exhibitions that resonate with the contemporary audience.  In this regard, exhibitions tend to borrow from new forms of interaction often linked to artistic expression to highlight and bring audience’s attention to relevant information.  In what follows some of the variables that make exhibitions spaces of flux that increasingly rely on creative and even artistic solutions for engaging the audience will be discussed primarily in relation to art but will extend to other fields such as architecture, design, and the public space