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The Urban Screens Image Loop

The reality of screens in urban spaces

The "Urban Screens Imageloop" is the result of an open call for peoples personal pictures of digital screens in urban spaces. It shows the current stage of how screens are "integrated" into the urban Landscape and became a beautiful overview of public digital screens all around the world, however I would not call the most of them "Urban Screen". It is clearly showing the various conditions and surroundings in which screens usually appear nowadays, but also points out that the majority of screens are still square panels, freestanding or attached to the facade.

See also the collection by the Group Pool on Flicr.

Selection of images from the loop

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Fashion Show, Las Vegas, Nevada (USA)
2003
(Photo by: David Gales)

View of moving LED video screens

Appendix 2 / Automata Public, Ljubljana, Slovenia
August 2005
(Photo by: Jan Kusej)

Antique market Panjiayuán, Beijing, China
2005
(Photo: Karen Lancel)

Bus station 8th Ave and 42nd Street, New York
(Photo: Alice Arnold)

" meeting point" presented on Bahninform screens at 26 stations in Germany
(Project by Iris Hoppe)

'Bahninform' information screens Cologne

'Bahninform' information screens Frankfurt

New York City, NY, USA
2004
(Photo by: Michael R Salmond)

Tokyo, Japan
2005
(Photo by: Michael R Salmond)

“1er Contact Festival”, organized by Le Cube,
Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
April 2005

"A distance" by Damaris Risch, Place B. Leca

"Nighthawks" by Jean-Marc Gauhier


"Facial elevations among the skyscrapers" CrownFountain, Millenium Park, Chicago
25 July 2004
(Photo by: Ava Fatah gen. Schieck)

Times Square, NY
April 2002
(Photo by: Ava Fatah gen. Schieck)

City TV display of Toronto Subway (TTC)
July 23rd 2005
(Phillip Jeffrey)

Screen of Montparnasse Tower, Paris
(Simon Protecter)

LED-Billboard main station Zurich
(Myriam Thyes)

Screens in Lithuania
(Mr. Kestas Vaitkevicius)


100 sq.m. screen in Vilnius, installed May 02

32 sq.m. screen in Siauliai, installed Feb. 05

32 sq.m. screen in Vilnius, installed June 03



Exchange Square, Manchester, UK
14.03.2005
(John Marshall)






Exchange Square, Manchester, UK
The Bigger Picture commissions launch
7 April 2005
(Jon Jordan)









OUT VIDEO festival in Ekaterinburg, RU
May 5 - June 5 2004
(Ildar Ziganshin)



Video "Wet Chicken" by PROVMYZA


Video "Dennis" by Raphael


Video "JanusKuss" by Myriam Thyes


Video "Susanne & Nystachmus" by Nynke Deinema


Video "Consumerizm" by Ranko Vukcevic

 

ABOUT THE URBAN SCREENS INITIATIVE

After the great success of the first Urban Screens conference in 2005, Mirjam Struppek has been working intensively on developing this project further and initiating a follow up series of extended Urban Screens events. Urban Screens Melbourne 08 marked the official launch of the International Urban Screens Association to support the Urban Screens Movement. A special thanks for the great ongoing help goes to Glenn Harding and Susa Pop.

Definition of Urban Screens

URBAN SCREENS defined as various kinds of dynamic digital displays and visual interfaces in urban space such as LED signs, plasma screens, projection boards, information terminals but also intelligent architectural surfaces being used in consideration of a well balanced, sustainable urban society - Screens that support with their content the idea of public space as space for creation and exchange of culture, strengthening a local economy and the formation of public sphere. Its digital nature makes these screening platforms an experimental visualization zone on the threshold of virtual and urban public space.

(Mirjam Struppek)

Short history of Urban Screens

The project is based on the intensive research of Interactionfield about public space in the digital age, its transformation and acquisition through New Media. It has been mainly inspired by the experience of the Project Blinkenlights by the Chaos Computer Club, turning in Winter 2001 the facade of the "Haus des Lehrers" at Alexanderplatz Berlin into a giant interactive screen. Content could be generated openly by everybody via internet. In January 2004, during the international Media Art Festival Transmediale, Mirjam Struppek conducted a questionnaire for the Art group[STRICTLY PUBLIC], researching about the outcome of their one month video art screening on the largest outdoor LED screen in Berlin, looking at the impact on the passers by. The outcome clearly showed the struggle of Art against Advertisement on this commercial infrastructure. Later in 2004 Mirjam Struppek was approached to consult for the preparation of the launch of the permanent video screen installation for cultural programming at the Zuidplein, heart of a new urban development area in Amsterdam. Mirjam Struppek developed the concept of "Urban Screens" and curated the first conference about "discovering the potential of outdoor screens for urban society" in September 2005 in collaboration with the Institute of Network Cultures and the Department for Art in Public Space. According to the large success of the event she developed an extended concept, including conferences, exhibitions, outdoor screenings and international joint broadcasting and an online information platform for networking and became the initiator of this challenging series of worldwide Urban Screens events, to support a growing community and an emerging Urban Screens movement.

Long Term Objectives

Opening commercially used digital screens in public space for cultural content and a young art scene through establishing a new exhibition format

Rethinking the relationship between architecture and public space in the digital age

Creating visibility and integration of new media art forms into an everyday urban situation and rethinking traditional forms of art in public space

Inspiring the creation of new innovative content for models with a balanced commercial, communal and cultural usage

Sensitizing for a more considerate and sustainable integration of visual media infrastructure in the urban architectural landscape with a cultural responsible claim

Exploring and pointing out the interrelation of screen format, architectural integration, technology, location and reception of content

Participation of the citizens in site specific and interactive screening projects and rediscovery of Public Space for critical discourse in an atmosphere of tolerance

Development of a dialogue between involved parties such as artists, cultural managers, architects, city government, screen operators as well as theoreticians

Supporting the networking of Urban Screens for content exchange across cultural boundaries, taking national and local issues into consideration

Supporting a worldwide Urban Screens movement beyond Europe and a network of engaged parties following documented best practice examples