After a two-year hiatus, Joel McKim and I are pleased to again lead our (evidently) popular urban media tour of West End London, this year as part of Birkbeck Arts Week 2016.

As always, we’ll be not only visiting a range of buildings and neighbourhoods associated with major media industries, but also we’ll be discussing more unconventional senses of urban media, such as hidden infrastructures, rhythms of everyday media use, urban visual culture, software spaces, soundscapes, media buildings/monuments and architecture-as-media.

I post the details on registration below, and look forward to seeing some of you there.

The Mediated City
A Tour of Media and Mediation in West End London

Led by Joel McKim and Scott Rodgers

This tour uses West End London as a lens into what we might call ‘the mediated city’. The idea of the mediated city points, on the one hand, to how the practices, rhythms and motilities of urban living compel certain uses, exposures and desires in relation to media; and on the other hand, to how media forms, infrastructures, and industries inhabit and are increasingly ‘built-into’ urban environments.

This tour aims to highlight the city as a unique lens for critically studying, understanding and defining media; and at the same time, to highlight media and mediation as lenses for understanding the city. Though the tour includes visits to a range of buildings and neighbourhoods associated with major media industries, as series more unconventional forms of urban media will also be discussed, such as hidden infrastructures, rhythms of everyday media use, urban visual culture, software spaces, soundscapes, media buildings/monuments and architecture-as-media.

Date, place and registration:
Wednesday, 18 May 2016, 2-5pm
Numbers are limited, so booking is essential – visit: https://goo.gl/j0x6OP
Attendees will meet at the southwest corner of Fitzroy Square at 2pm. The tour will end at Leicester Square.

For further information:
Contact Joel McKim (j.mckim@bbk.ac.uk) or Scott Rodgers (s.rodgers@bbk.ac.uk)