[urban interfaces] research group at Utrecht University

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Lecture by Nanna Verhoeff on Urban Screens and Media Art for urban data

Nanna Verhoeff will be part of a panel at the 2017 SCMS conference in Chicago, which asks what media art can do – what terms and practices are potentiated – with regards to urban screens. Its formation implicitly argues for the significance of comparative methods in delineating the potentials and problems of the public screens that have…

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Delaram Ashtari, guest of [ui], March – August 2017

Delaram Ashtari (1989) is a PhD Candidate of Urban Planning at the College of Fine Arts, University of Tehran, Iran. She holds a Master in Urban Design and a Bachelor in Urbanism from the University of Tehran. In these two programs, she ranked first among all graduating students. She is interested in the transformations of…

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The Art of Data Politics

A hackathon hosted by SETUP in collaboration with Datafied Society & [urban interfaces]: could data-driven art make our urban public sphere great again? (RMA student Paul Smidt wrote a blogpost about this hackathon. Find it here!) After the election of Donald Trump and the Dutch elections approaching publicists warn for the distortion of the public debate….

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Imaging [Urban] Data Visualisation

  An expert meeting organized by Datafied Society and [urban interfaces], in collaboration with SETUP MediaLab and MCW Expertise Center The goal of this meeting is to facilitate a dialogue between academics and practitioners about the possibilities for innovative, critical and experimental forms of “bringing  back” data to (urban) publics. Or, in other words, we…

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Shannon Mattern in Utrecht

On January 10, from 15.00 – 17.00hrs, [urban interfaces] in collaboration with MCW’s Datafied Society and the MCW Expertise Centre organises a lecture and research meeting, this time with Shannon Mattern as our guest speaker with the lecture: Interfaces in an Expanding Field. Urban screens, media facades, public kiosks, travel monitors, and smartphones are among the countless screens that permeate our urban…

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