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Refractory Volume 12, 2008

Mar 8, 2008 | Contents Page Only, Digital Media/Internet, Television, Urban Space, Volume 12

Screenscapes Editor, Leanne Downing 1. An Urban Island: Atlantic Station and its Use of the Screen – Beau B. Beza & Derek Merrill 2. Vegas on the Yarra: Situating Melbourne’s Crown Entertainment Complex – Leanne Downing 3. Public Screens and the...

An Urban Island: Atlantic Station and its Use of the Screen – Derek Merrill & Beau B. Beza

Mar 8, 2008 | Urban Space, Volume 12

Typically impenetrable, solid surfaces–barriers, fences, walls–cut space into two distinct parts, an inside and outside. In ancient times, those within the walls of the city, or castle, were protected from barbarians who lived outside the confines of...

Vegas on the Yarra: Situating Melbourne’s Crown Entertainment Complex – Leanne Downing

Mar 6, 2008 | Film, Urban Space, Volume 12

“Dinner and a themed, interactive, location-based entertainment attraction, anyone?” During the mid 1990s, a series of multi-lateral trade agreements hit Melbourne’s cinema industry with an almost terminal velocity. Fuelled by the vertical integration of global...

Public Screens and the Transformation of Public Space – Scott McQuire, Nikos Papastergiadis & Sean Cubitt

Mar 6, 2008 | Digital Media/Internet, Film, Television, Urban Space, Volume 12

Abstract: This article maps and investigates the potential for large electronic screens to contribute to the formation of new modes of civic agency in public space. It examines the ‘Public Space Broadcasting’ project in the UK as an alternative to the...

Screenwatching or watching the screen? The large format experience – Mary Nucci

Mar 6, 2008 | Browse by Media, Browse Past Volumes, Film, Urban Space, Volume 12

In the cinematic pantheon, large format films1 are the Zeus of film. Literally standing head and shoulders above their filmic compatriots, large format films can be shown on flat screens up to eight stories high or dome screens as large as 80 feet2 . But these are not...

Screens of Navigation: From Taking a Ride to Making the Ride – Nanna Verhoeff

Mar 6, 2008 | Browse Past Volumes, Film, Urban Space, Volume 12

At moments of transition, when new media emerge, it is a much-encountered practice within the artifacts produced by those media to reflect upon the nature of the new medium itself. A dominant trope in modern visual culture, emerging or transforming screen media often...
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