Provocations on Media Architecture by Ian Callender

Provocations on Media Architecture by Ian Callender

Reflections on embedding digital media in a built environment

How does media architecture distribute suspicion and trust? What is a collage of media architecture? How is media architecture vectored? How can media architecture address privilege? These questions and conceptual provocations aim to challenge the binary of techno-optimism and technological agoraphobia, offering a platform for developing new, critically and contextually rooted theories that media architecture might grab hold of.
Intentionally open-ended, Provocations on Media Architecture brings together 21 thought leaders across architecture, visual arts, design, curation, academia and public policy to address these ideas and themes. Authors respond with images and brief texts incorporating the perspective of their own creative and scholarly practice. Entries range from descriptions of relevant artworks and design projects to reflections spawned from first-person encounters with media architecture in situ, scholarly analyses and AI-assisted theory. Across the diverse and at times contradictory arguments and methods employed, new constellations and connections emerge.

Annie Dell'Aria is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, USA. Her writings have appeared in Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, Moving Image Review and Art Journal (MIRAJ), Public Art Dialogue, and other venues.