Digital-Cultural Ecology and the Medium-Sized City
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Conference: 1-3 April 2016. Bristol, UK Organisers: AMPS, CMIR, UWE Venue: Arnolfini Centre for Contemporary Arts Twitter: #MediatedCity For more details visit: http://architecturemps.com/the-mediated-city/ CONFERENCE PROGRAMME |
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OPENING EVENT: The Bristol Debates”. 1st April 2016. 5.00pm-6.30pm. “The Bristol Debates”
OPENING NIGHT EXHIBITION: CMIR TWO- Focus on New Practice Research in the Moving Image. 01st April 2016. 6.30pm – 8.30pm. Following the CMIR ONE event last year.
MEDIATED CITY BOOK LAUNCH: To mark its association with AMPS on this book series Intellect Books will hold a launch event. 01st April 2016. 6.30pm.
CITY IDEAS STUDIO – TRANSPORT: To coincide with this conference the Architecture Centre welcomes delegates and audience to their current exhibition. An introduction will be arranged for Saturday 2nd April.
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In every country in the world medium-sized cities out number capital cities in both quantity and gross population. They are however, historically overlooked. In the city in which this conference is held, Bristol UK, the industry sector that underwrites its culture and economy is that of the moving image and the digital. It is a medium sized city with a history and an active present at the intersection of the physical conurbation, moving image research, and the cultural, economic and social implications of their coalescence. As with many medium sized cities however, it has an infrastructure from the industrial age. In this context, the present conference and related activities, focus on how the medium sized cities from across the world are adapting to the economies, practices and infrastructures of the digital age.
Led by the Centre for Moving Image Research, AMPS and its scholarly journal Architecture_MPS, the conference is interested in the exploring the still latent possibilities of the internet in urban, social and cultural contexts; the development of citizen led ‘hybrid cities’ in which new technologies foster new behaviours; new ethnographic interpretations of the city and its peoples; and changing representations of the city in new and old formats: photography, film, animation, augmented and virtual realities.