URBAN SCREENS MELBOURNE
ABOUT THE EVENT ...
USM08 has invited Melbourne-based festivals and their creative communities to share the platform of USM08 to explore ways of inspiring the city to modernize the use of urban screens.
The international program includes e.g. specific artistic night and morning screenings, considering the issue of light and sound pollution, a special local indigenous program as well as interactive screen-based projects, and futuristic films.
Selected highlights from partner events such as the New York based Streaming Museum, Art at the Heart from Alice Springs and Blinkenlights Stereoscope from Toronto will be broadcast live as part of the Joint Broadcasting program.
“a wireless art experience”
Friday, October 3, 2008
While the Blade Runner scale of the moving image takes hold of our imagination and tends to hog centre stage, Urban Screens Melbourne 08 took a broader and more expansive view of the spatial impact of screen technologies in contemporary culture and cities. Urban screens can be seen as providing a new digital layer to the city, an augmented media space that folds and flexes its way into and out of contemporary urban experience. It was the event’s engagement with this broad field that made Melbourne’s Urban Screens 08 such an engrossing and stimulating event.”
realtime magazine
realtime 89 Feb.-March 2009
onscreen - film
screen potential
Ross Harley:
urban screens 08,
federation square
“When we think urban screens (as opposed to sub-urban, ex-urban or non-urban ones?), we typically conjure images of oversized projections strangely attached to Gehry-like buildings in hypermodern CBD plazas. Think Seoul. Think Times Square. Think Fed Square.
