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The empire state building and the roles of low-resolution media façades in a data society

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Colangelo, Dave
Abstract	Media façades and reactive architecture are playing an increasingly important role in media circulation and the experience of the city. The highly visible and data-reactive low-resolution displays of buildings like Toronto's CN Tower or New York's Empire State Building shape the texture, tempo, and legibility of the urban experience, an experience that is produced (and consumed) in a unique combination of on and offline activity. Emerging from histories of weather beacons and illuminated architecture, I argue that these expressive surfaces increase the ambivalence and contingency of the experience of the city, enabling the formation of temporary publics through public data visualizations that combine elements of democratized urbanism, critical debate, emotion, control, and commerce. Buildings with programmable LED media façades are also palpable substantiations of supermodernism, that is, of the irruption and imbrication of the "infoscape" and the cityscape, of urban informatics, information aesthetics, and mediated urbanism in architecture. Through historical research, social media analysis, and research-creation, this paper focuses on the specific case of the Empire State Building and reports on the relationships between information, public space, and architecture that are sustained and supported by low-resolution, expressive architectural façades. The paper ends with a discussion of the potential for art and activism for low-resolution digital architectural displays via two research-creation projects: In The Air Tonight (2014), a project created for the LED façade of the Ryerson Image Arts Centre in Toronto, and E-TOWER (2010), a project created for Toronto's CN Tower. Contribution to the Media Architecture community: Historical and functional case study of Empire State Building and investigation of low-resolution media façades as tools for commerce, critique, and civic development through social media and public data visualization.
Starting Page	11
Ending Page	20
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781450333023
DOI	10.1145/2682884.2682885
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2014-11-19
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Digital culture Architecture Social media Information aesthetics Media façades
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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