- Cities and companies having introversion of cities (i.e. Berlin wall)
State’s gateway = airport (city walls)
- Buildings are no longer built according to traditional technical constraints, but to minimize risk (sterile = arrival, non-sterile = departing)
- Designed for safety and precautions
- Intense control and high surveillance experimentation
- Comparison b/w prisons and airports (incarceration)
Access to the city
- Not at gates
- Electronic audience equipment (somebody taking part in a discussion or conversion in permanent transit)
- Breaks in consistency no longer occur in physical space, but in space-time… b/c of the industrial and advanced technology… restructured through interruptions.
- … This causes urban decline
Transformation of enclosures:
- Development of enclosures (fence to screen)
- Boundary surface is continuously transformed
- Recent transformation = interface
Does the urban metropolis have a façade?
“Go into the city”? We are no longer in front of the city, but inside of it!
What is Winnipeg’s façade? I would argue that its you do not perceive Winnipeg to be a city. Rather, its metropolis roots of a collection of independent entities still maintain itself. For instance, if you are visiting the city you do not say that you are going to the city instead you would identify yourself with a particular segment or area.
Metropolis:
- It no longer corresponds to the old divisions of city and control
- “Intramural/extramural” weakened by telecommunications
- Paradoxical phenomenon in which the opacity of construction material sin being virtually eliminated. (i.e. curtain walls)
The interface and transparency seem to be part of the urban condition. With such densities it seems appropriate to remove the claustrophobia. Furthermore, the immaterial of transparency is a perfect reflection of our time, in which we no longer value permanence. The material itself could be anything and does not carry any loaded meanings.
MY Studio: The image is of a screen installation project in a city. The screen functions to electronically capture the movement of the personal passing by and then replay back. In sense it is creating an electronic shadow of the person’s movement. The important implications of the project is its demonstrating how the urban construction is dissolving into an immaterial and electronic interface. The screen isn’t projecting any of the past ideas of permanence, value or materiality. Rather it is portraying movement, immateriality, no depth and instantaneous consumption of the subject matter.
Screen Interface:
- Computers, screens, teleconference
- Depth of field a representation
- Differences b/w positions blur (results in confusion)
- Devoid of limits (electronic ether)
- Describe in instant temporality in diffusion
- Constructed space in new electronic topology
- Solid pace no longer exists
- Near and far disappear
Overexposed image demonstrates one example of how the meaning of the title may be read. The overexposed image has its subject blurred and unclear. There is no clear distinction of what the subject matter is b/c everything becomes the inextricably linked without any way of making clear boundaries.
The title of the article could also be read as a criticism suggesting that we are over-exposed to many of these urban conditions. The current state is of over saturation.
For instance, like a trip to Universal Studios, in which everything is meant to bring you pleasure and to stimulate.
Technological Space-Time:
- No longer night and day (open shutters and TV)
- Chronological and historical time succeeded by a time that instantaneously exposes itself.
- Urban form is no longer demarcated with a line that says here of there, but it synonymous with the programming of a time “schedule”
Oppositions occur b/w the city’s resident occur only in time:
1. Historical time spans identified with monuments
2. Technological time spans have no relationship to calendar of active nor to collective memory
“… Contributing to the creation of a permanent present whose intense pace knows no tomorrow. The latter type of time is destroying the rhythms of a society which has become more and more debased.”
“Every surface is an interface b/w 2 milieus in which a placed in constant with one another”
- Constant surface
- The surface becomes an osmotic membrane
- A thickness without thickness
Camera: “the camera ahs become our best inspector”
Effraction:
Diffraction:
“The overexposure attracts our attraction inasmuch as it portrays the image of a world without antipodes. Without hidden sides. A world in which opacity is not longer a momentary interlude”
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