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Digital technologies of various kinds are now the means through which many cities are madeÌývisible and their spatialities negotiated. From casual snaps shared on Instagram to elaborateÌýphoto-realistic visualisations, digital technologies for making, distributing and viewing cities areÌýmore and more pervasive. This talk will explore some of the implications of that digitalÌýmediation for the cultural politics of urban representation.

What and who is being made visibleÌýin these digitally mediated cities, and how? What forms of urban materiality, spatiality andÌýsociality are pictured and performed? And how should that picturing be theorised? The talk willÌýsuggest that cities and their inhabitants are increasingly visualised through a vertiginous fluidÌý‘digital visuality’, which is in fact evident across a number of visual practices. It will also proposeÌýthat critical accounts of such visuality should focus less on readings of images and more onÌýconsidering the (geographically-specific) flows and frictions of images.

¶Ù²¹³Ù±ð:Ìý23rd of September
Place: 3C510, ¹û¶³´«Ã½
10.15 - 12.00: Presentation by Gillian Rose
12.00 - 13.00: Lunch at Solsta In
13.15 - 15.00: Presentations from the Geomedia Research Group (12A522)