Exploring the digital city: space, culture, politics

Lead Research Organisation: University of Dundee
Department Name: Duncan of Jordanstone College

Abstract

Exploring the digital city is a workshop comprising four interdisciplinary seminars, three of which focus on paper presentations by invited speakers from six national and overseas universities, one of which focuses on an installation by an invited digital artist/architect collaboration with projects in America, Britain, and Australia. The seminars examine the effect of digital technology on the design and use of urban space. The first seminar explores the interplay between digital space and urban space; the second focuses on
The implications of digital technology for urban life and culture; the third examines new forms of politics associated with the digital age. The installation at the DCA (Dundee Contemporary Arts) will create a digital environment that explores the interaction of data fields and space.

Publications

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Holm L (2007) Is There a Digital Future Landscape Terrain? in Architectural Design

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Holm, Lorens (2010) The Cartographers Dilemma in Urban Design Journal

 
Title laser\net 
Description laser\net was an interactive digital media installation staged at the Centrespace, DCA, Dundee, February 2006, a collaboration between artists and architects in St. Louis, London, and Dundee, commissioned by the AHRC workshop, 'Exploring the digital city'. It demonstrated how people interact with each other directly via a screen, even when they are not remote from each other. A collaboration with Paul Guzzardo, John Bell and Adam Covell. 
Type Of Art Artistic/Creative Exhibition 
Year Produced 2006 
Impact This installation has led to further digital collaborations between Lorens Holm and Paul Guzzardo, including two publications in peer reviewed jornals and two unsuccessful AHRC grant applications.