2006 Goblin City
Pixelspaces 2006: Goblin City
Media, Art and Public Spaces
The urban realm is being equipped to function as a multimedia environment. Digitization is making a physical impact on the cityscape itself. Architecture is being endowed with the qualities of media and infrastructure ranging from built-in telematic furnishings to location-based services forms interfaces to linking up virtual and material spheres of communication. Creative encounters beyond the realm of advertising and high-tech décor deliver real proof of the growing awareness of the mediatization of modern society. The results of these confluences integrate themselves into their physical settings as subtle interventions, in addition to ones charged with accomplishing often mundane tasks. The manifestations of media art beyond the confines of the exhibition context—as an architectural component or in the form of the telematic configuration of an environment—has meant the emergence of a new quality on the part of installations.
Pixelspaces is a symposium series hosted by Ars Electronica Futurelab that discusses contemporary currents from the point of view of a media laboratory. As part of Pixelspaces 2006, which has been dubbed Goblin City, projects and approaches will be presented that navigate the tension-charged relationships between media, art and public space.