Main entry:

Public Space? Lost & Found (Symposium) (2014 : Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Title & Author:

Public space? : lost and found / edited by Gediminas Urbonas, Ann Lui, and Lucas Freeman ; produced by the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology.

Publication:

Cambridge, MA : SA+P Press, MIT School of Architecture + Planning, [2017]
Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press

Description:

327 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Public space?: Lost and found and art at MIT / Mariel Villeré -- Introduction -- [I.] Paradoxes : Opening / Ana Maria León -- Tar and clay: public space is the demonstration of a paradox in the physical world / Adrian Blackwell -- The public sphere is our abyss / Néstor Garcia Canclini -- Paradoxes of life in inner space / Caroline A. Jones -- Politics do not happen in squares / Andrés Jaque -- House, home, public space: the Folly Project in Gwangju / Juan Herreros -- How will we separate?: Propositions on the future of urban space / Mark Wigley -- [II.] Ecologies : Opening / T.J. Demos -- Driving the golden spike / Brian Holmes -- Art and ecological consciousness / György Kepes -- Solidarity and the symbiotic real / Timothy Morton -- Art, territory, and the ecology of time / Christoph Brunner and Gerald Raunig -- River runs, a study in water and public imagination / Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas -- Political oscillations between earth and air / Rikke Luther -- Designing R-Urban Commons / atelier d'architecture autogérée -- Geleucht / Otto Piene -- [III.] Jurisdictions : Opening / Doris Sommer -- The cross-border public / Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman -- Proposals and profanations in the art of Jill Magid / Colby Chamberlain -- Return to Parrhesia: recovering the capacity to speak / Krzysztof Wodiczko -- The National Pavilion at the Venice Biennale as a form of public space / Angela Vettese -- Malraux's shoes / Dennis Adams -- Making public space: Museo Maya de América / Coryn Kempster with Julia Jamrozik -- The Soweto Project: building Ubuntu / Marjetica Potrč -- Open house / Matthew Mazzotta -- [IV.] Signals : Opening / Catherine D'Ignazio -- Privacy and publicity in the age of social media / Beatriz Colomina -- Protocols of construction, specifications of new media / Nader Tehrani -- Video public, video sociality / Ian Blom -- Public space: projects and context / Antoni Muntadas -- See the signal? / Bik Van der Pol -- Reflexivity and resistance in communicative capitalism / Jodi Dean with Gediminas Urbonas -- The process by which imagination becomes power / Metahaven with Troy Conrad Therrien.

Summary:

"Public space" is a potent and contentious topic among artists, architects, and cultural producers. Public Space? Lost and Found documents how critical spatial practices have expanded the concept far beyond the physical confines of the city square. The book considers the role of aesthetic practices within the construction, identification, and critique of shared territories, and how artists or architects--the "antennae of the race"--Can heighten our awareness of rapidly changing formulations of public space in the age of digital media, vast ecological crises, and civic uprisings. It combines significant recent projects in art and architecture with writings by historians and theorists. Contributors investigate strategies for responding to underrepresented communities and areas of conflict through the work of Marjetica Potrč in Johannesburg and Teddy Cruz on the Mexico-U.S. border, among others. They explore our collective stakes in ecological catastrophe through artistic research such as Atelier d'Architecture Autogérée's hubs for community action and recycling in Colombes, France, and Brian Holmes's theoretical investigation of new forms of aesthetic perception in the age of the Anthropocene. Inspired by artist and MIT professor Antoni Muntadas's early coining of the term "media landscape," contributors also look ahead, casting a critical eye on the fraught impact of digital media and the Internet on public space. This book is the first in a new series of volumes produced by the MIT School of Architecture and Planning's Program in Art, Culture, and Technology.

ISBN:

9780998117003 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0998117005 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Public spaces Congresses.
Public art Social aspects Congresses.
Architecture and society Congresses.
Art and society Congresses.
Espaces publics Congrès.
Architecture et société Congrès.
Art et société Congrès.
Architecture and society.
Art and society.
Public spaces.
Architektur
Öffentlicher Raum

Form/genre:

Conference publications.
Exhibition publications.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Urbonas, Gediminas, 1966- editor.
Lui, Ann (Architect), editor.
Freeman, Lucas, editor.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Art, Culture and Technology.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 295708
Call No.: BIB 242067
Status: Available