HTNM Lecture — Gillian Rose's "Animating Cities Digitally: Processing Urban Space and Time"

This talk will introduce a recent edited collection, Seeing the City Digitally: Processing Urban Space and Time, which is available as an Open Access pdf here. The various contributors to the book explore what's happening to ways of seeing urban spaces in the contemporary moment, when so many of the technologies through which cities are visualised are digital. Cities have always been pictured, in many media and for many different purposes. My talk will offer a framework for theorising how that picturing is changing in an era of digital visual culture. Analogue visual technologies like film cameras were understood as creating some sort of a trace of the real city. Digital visual technologies, in contrast, harvest and process digital data to create images that are constantly refreshed, modified and circulated. I will propose that this means that digital images of cities are best understood as a form of animation, and I will explore some of the consequences for seeing the (post)human inhabitants of urban spaces in particular.

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