Situations of Presence :

Tanya Søndergaard Toft: Situations of Presence – Reclaiming Public Space In The Urban Digital Gallery

Part of Paper Session 3: Critical Perspectives and Urban Curation

Tanya Toft uses SESI Digital Art Gallery as an example, when she analyzes the shift from considering media facades as a visual spectacle to considering them as emotional and affective urban interventions.

Abstract: The article considers the urban digital gallery as an opportunity to reclaim public space from digital factors of spatial determinism in the media city. It considers the affective quality of urban digital artworks as interface between ‘human’ and ‘technology’. The urban digital gallery is proposed to contribute

Paper Session 3: Critical Perspectives and Urban Curation
This session takes place in the morning on November 22. It features four talks:

James Miller: Media in Built Environments – the Technologies of Mediatization

Gavin Sade: Aesthetics of Urban Media Façades

Tanya Toft: Situations of Presence – Reclaiming public space in the urban digital gallery

Karolina M. Zielinska-Dabkowska: Critical Perspectives on Media Architecture

Selena Savic and Teresa Heitor: Probing the Network: Architecturality of Wireless Infrastructure