The Building as Screen : A History, Theory, and Practice of Massive Media (Paperback)

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 Facades 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.