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Zlatan Krajina
Negotiated Encounters: Living With Urban Screens in a Mediated CityI explore everyday interactions with urban screens. My assumption is that if urban screens take space in familiar places, but also represent other space(s) in form of moving images - which cannot be materially manipulated by remote controls like in the home - passers-by are required to develop ways of dealing with the presence of screens while moving through urban spaces, shared with unknown others. I am centrally interested in bringing into our critical awareness the rich (but taken-for-granted) pedestrian knowledge of developing (and sustaining as habits) the ethno-methods of compensating for the lack of remote controls when encountering screens. My aim is also to examine what the status of the labour of 'coping' with the presence of flickering screens might be in the process of spatial habituation. I believe that researching what passers-by do with urban screens when seen merely passing by them, might give us some usefeul
implications for our broader understanding of contemporary everyday life in technologically mediated cities.
Some results of the research have been presented as papers:1. "Domesticating the Screen-Scenography: Situational Uses of Images and Technologies in the Tunnels of the London Underground"
presented at the "Mediatizing Public Space Conference", organised by the "Leverhulme Goldsmiths Media Research Centre", at Goldsmiths, November 2010http://www.gold.ac.uk/media/Programm27Nov2010.pdf
2. "How to 'Tame' the Sun: Visual Indulgences at a Screen-Place as Strategies of Appropriation"
presented at the "Besides the Screen" Symposium at Goldsmiths, November 2010
http://besidesthescreen.blogspot.com/search/label/Texts
A publication that draws on the early stage of the research is
Krajina, Z. (2009) 'Exploring Urban Screens' in Culture Unbound: Journal of Contemporary Cultural Research, vol 1
http://www.cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/v1/a24/
The research has been partly funded by the Croatian National Science Foundation (NZZ), Croatian Ministry of Science (MZOS), Croatian Institute for E-Democracy, Zagreb City Council, Goldsmiths Postgraduate Scholarship (in 2008), Open Society Institute, and London's Frankopan Fund.