From 1 to 7 December 2018 the exhibition and lecture series
Screen Spaces, a geography of moving image was held in New York. The
program explored video and time-based media, including net art, set-design, animation, video, reportage, music videos, television, CCTV, and social media channels, as sites of reality production and circulation. By examining the material, spatial and political dimensions of the space of the screen and the territories it mediates,
Screen Spaces aims to unveil the identities, ideologies and imaginaries that inform video culture today.
Responding to the relationship between video and the construction of the public sphere, Screen Spaces presented ten site-specific installations in Lower Manhattan, and took place at Anthology Film Archives, Are.na, the Bamboo Garden, Baxter St. at The Camera Club of New York, the Emily Harvey Foundation, MATHEW NYC, Rhizome at ON CANAL, Seward Educational Campus, Spring Mart Bodega, and Whooden Collective. Free and open to the public, Screen Spaces transformed its sites into temporal, urban viewing, recording and broadcasting stations, and nodes in a scrolling geography across the city.
Public Program
To celebrate the opening of
Screen Spaces, a
public program at Anthology Film Archives on 1 December 2018 convened a group of cultural visionaries in the field of media, technology, design and video. Speakers discussed the ways in which the production of reality is mediated by the architecture of the screen. The conversation was documented and broadcasted by research and technology partner Are.na. The public program was followed by a walking tour accross the exhibition sites.
Publication
Screen Spaces was documented as a live-archiving channel on Are.na, who developed a digital research, documentation and sharing platform, that resulted in a publication. Are.na is a member-supported platform for connecting ideas and building knowledge globally.
