Video as Urban Condition:
a project exploring how video shapes urban experience
Video as urban condition is about the ways in which video has become part of
the urban fabric: the omnipresent screen and the watchful eye that inhabits
private and public space. Video is the ubiquitous equipment of the home, the
street and the work place: the tube, the box, the telly, CCTV, info-screen,
electronic billboard, in-store advertising, mobile, terrestrial, cable,
satellite, pay-per-view, downloadable, for sale, to rent. Video as urban
condition is about how our knowledge, perception and fantasy of urban
environments are mediated by video. Video is the mass medium of innumerable
fragments, multi-channel, remote control, camcorder, games console, webcam,
public service broadcasting, peer-to-peer, MTV, 24-hour news, reality TV,
soap opera, family entertainment, pornography, home video.
The project examines a medium whose most distinctive characteristics are
multiplicity and diversity, a form which is not contained by the norms of
art institutions or the exclusive domains of professionals. Video is a
medium of mass production
Video as Urban Condition - Call for Work
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Type: discussion