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THE MEDIATED CITY Part 2 – LA THE MEDIATED CITY Part 2 – LA – a multidisciplinary conferences examining “the city”…… a virtual, filmic, social, political and physical construct. CONFERENCE 2 Place: Los Angeles Dates: 01 – 03 October 2014 Woodbury University The Mediated City Conference: Los Angeles 01 – 04 October, 2014 Woodbury University offers undergraduate and graduate degrees from four schools, Architecture; Business; Media, Culture & Design; and Transdisciplinarity.The school was founded in 1884 as Woodbury's Business College by its namesake, F. C. Woodbury, formerly a partner in Heald's Business College in San Francisco, thus making it the second oldest institution of higher learning in Los Angeles and one of the oldest business schools west of Chicago. That historic link between Woodbury and the world of business has been maintained throughout the years. The School of Media, Culture & Design seeks to educate next-generation creative professionals across a variety of media and theoretical landscapes. We are located in Burbank, widely known as the media capital of the world. Degree offerings include undergraduate programs in animation, communication, fashion design, game art & design, graphic design, media technology, and psychology. A new graduate program has been launched this year—the M.A. in Media for Social Justice. - The Dean of Media, Culture and Design at Woodbury is Edward Clift. Architecture_media_politics_society is a fully peer reviewed academic journal. It is a forum for the analysis of architecture, landscape and urbanism in the mediated, politicised environment of contemporary culture and society. It sees the definition, debates and concerns of the built environment as intrinsic to those at the heart of other social, cultural and political discourses. The territory it seeks to explore is an overlaid terrain in which the physical, material and the environmental are critically examined through the prism of the cultural, the mediatic, the social and the political. - The editor is Dr. Graham Cairns The Mediated City Conference: Los Angeles 01 – 04 October, 2014 CONFERENCE THEMES: 2014 marks the fifty-year anniversary of one of the 20th century’s most influential texts – Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan not only introduced the media-as-the-message, it presented the world with the metaphor of the global village. Half a century after the publication of this revolutionary text, The Mediated City – Los Angeles – Conference seeks to explore the multiple ways in which the city of today is experienced, perceived, represented and constructed as a ‘mediated’ phenomenon. Today, we are perfectly attuned to the photo-realistic imagery of design presentations; daily experience the ever present moving imagery of the commercialized urban landscape; and still watch the ‘city symphonies’ of a new generation of filmmakers. We are familiar with the digitally laden experience of the contemporary public transport ride, and still see ‘the city’ as a site, subject and protagonist in cinematic productions from California to Mumbai. In this context, urbanists imagine the future of an interconnected ‘smart city’ and the design process itself becomes mediated, as architects simulate user behavior as a form of ‘space syntax’. As McLuhan identified in 1964, today’s global village is a place of simultaneous experience; a site for overlapping material and electronic effects; a place not so much altered by the content of a medium, but rather, a space transformed by the very nature of medias themselves. For some, this is little more than the inevitable evolution of urban space in the digital age. For others, it represents the city’s liberation from the condition of stasis. For scaremongers, it’s a nightmare scenario in which the difference between the virtual and the real, the electronic and the material, the recorded and the lived, becomes impossible to identify. In every case, corporeal engagement is placed at one remove from the physical world. The intention of this conference is bring together people from various disciplines to explore how their work, their ideas and their practices overlap and inform each other. Architects, urban designers, filmmakers, animators, theorists, academics, artists, web-designers and programmers will share their work and their positions. The Mediated City Conference: Los Angeles 01 – 04 October, 2014 INDEX AND PROGRAMME: The Mediated City Conference: Los Angeles 01 – 04 October, 2014 Wednesday 10.1.2014 4 - 5 pm Registration and Check In 6 - 8 pm Opening Night Reception Thursday 10.2.2014 9 am Breakfast & Check In 9:30 - 10:30 am Opening Remarks Edward Clift, Dean of Woodbury MCD Mike Gatto, CA Assembly Member Dist. 43 10:30 - 11:00 am Film Screening Marc Cucco - Gensler 11:15 - 12:15 pm Eames Demetrios 12:15 pm Lunch 1 - 1:30 pm Mear One 1:45 - 3:15 pm Paper Session C - Ahmenson Main Space 1:45 - 3:15 pm Paper Session D - Screening Room 100 1:45 - 3:15 pm Paper Session N - Soundstage 3:30 - 4:00 pm Frances Anderton 3:30 - 5:00 pm Paper Session A - Ahmenson Main Space 4 - 4:45 pm Terry Flaxton 4 - 5:30 pm Paper Session E - Screening Room E100 4 - 5:30 pm Paper Session T - Sound Stage 5 - 5:45 pm Beatriz Garcia 5:15 - 6:45 pm Paper Session U - Ahmanson Main Space 6 pm Jesse Gilbert Media Technology Presentation 6:30 pm Quarteto Fantastico Performance 7:30 Opening Night Cocktail Pary The Mediated City Conference: Los Angeles 01 – 04 October, 2014 Friday 10.3.2014 8:45 am Breakfast & Check In 9:30 - 10:45 Media Policy Center- Harry Wiland - Dale Bell Dr. Richard Jackson (UCLA) 9:30 - 10:45 Paper Session O - Sound Satage 9:30 - 10:45 Paper Session S- Screening Room E100 9:30 - 10:45 GIS Workshop- A111 (Karen Lewis) 11 am Mia Lehrer 12:15 pm Lunch 1 - 2:00 pm Evan Mather Joe Flores (Burbank DWP) 2:15 - 3:45 pm Paper Session J - Sound Stage 2:15 - 3:45 pm Paper Session L - Screening Room E100 4 - 4:45 pm Paul Debevec - ICT of USC 5:15 - 6:45 pm Paper Session H - Screening Room 100 5:15 - 6:45 pm Paper Session R- Sound Stage 5:15 - 6 pm James Hay 6:15 -7 pm John Zissovici 7 - 8:30 pm Paper Session I - Sound Stage 7 - 8:30 pm Paper Session P - Screening Room E100 Saturday 10.4.2014 8:45 am Breakfast & Check In 9 - 9:45 am Alice Arnold 9 - 10:30 am Paper Session F - Ahmanson Main Space 9:30 - 11:15 am Paper Session K - Screening Room E100 9:30 - 11:00 am Paper Session Q - Sound Stage 10:45 - 11:30 am Dane Lewis -Cooper Union 10:45 - 12:15 am Paper Session G - Ahmanson Main Space 10:45 - 12:15 Paper Session B - Screening Room E100 11:35 - 12:20 pm Steve Hawley 12 pm -1:30 Lunch 2 - 5 pm LA Architecture Tour The Mediated City Conference: Los Angeles 01 – 04 October, 2014 Full LIST of ABSTRACTS and BIOGRAPHIES: The Mediated City Conference: Los Angeles 01 – 04 October, 2014 Title: Mood: The Phenomenal Ground of the Mediated City and Marshall McLuhan’s Proposition for “media-as-the-message” Name: Afsaneh Ardehali Abstract: To begin our discussion of the “city” in terms of McLuhan’s proposition: “media-as-the-message, ”we ask: what kind of conceptions regarding our being and the environment allows McLuhan to take the above assertion? This essay aims to clarify the roots of Marshall McLuhan’s proposition: media-as-the-message,” and offer the disclosing power of mood as the basic character of all experiencing. Having been confronted with the limiting ways of the scientific approach to understanding our relation to the environment based on which the city is understood as a mere static object of utility and our experience as either a conceptual idea or perceptual process; we urn to Martin Heidegger’s approach to understanding human emotions and experience to unfold the disclosing power of “mood.” Translations of philosophers Eugene Gendlin, Richard Polt, and Hubert Dreyfus elucidate the deep meaning of Heidegger’s approach. Heidegger’s interpretation of ‘human condition’ goes against the traditional notions we have inherited from Descartes’ scientific way of thinking. “Dasein,” Heidegger’s new term for ‘human condition,’ is not an object but an “interrelation with the world.” This “mediation” between “ourselves and the world” takes place in a deeper “pre-ontological” level. Dasein’s structure is analyzed by “attunement” of “understanding” of “mood.” In this radical interpretation of mood, the city is characterized within a phenomenal mode of our mediated experience in the world. Biography: I received my M.S. Arch. from the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP) at the University of Cincinnati (UC), M. Arch. from California Polytechnic State University and B. Arch. from the University of Washington. Currently, as a full-time faculty in the School of Advanced Structures at UC, I teach architectural history, design, and drawing. I have also taught in both graduate and undergraduate programs in the Department of Architecture + Interior Design at Miami University. In 2011, my thesis “Mood-Consciousness and Architecture: A Phenomenological Investigation of Therme Vals by Way of Martin Heidegger’s Interpretation of Mood,” aimed to clarify what “Art” means in the art of architecture. This work unfolded over a decade of investigation into human emotions and experience, merging my philosophical, artistic, and architectural interests. I have presented and published at national as well as international conferences in Canada, Spain, Japan, and Switzerland. In June 2012, I presented “Globalization: the new Mood-Consciousness of architecture” (published in the Conference Proceedings) at the ACSA International Conference. The Mediated City Conference: Los Angeles 01 – 04 October, 2014 Title: The Continuous Monument and the Brown Stone Spire: Radicality in the architecture of Night Vale Name: Alex Brown Abstract: In June 2012 writers Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor released the first episode of the bi-monthly podcast ‘Welcome to Night Vale’.
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