“Large Screens and the Transnational Public Sphere” presented by Papastergiadis, McQuire, Barikin, Yue, Gu, Cmielewski, Cmielewski, Gibson and Jones

• Nikos Papastergiadis
• Scott McQuire
• Dr Amelia Barikin
• Audrey Yue
• Xin Gu
• Cecelia Cmielewski
• Leon Cmielewski
• Ross Gibson
• Matthew Jones

• The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Keywords: large screens, transnational communication, cultural public sphere, media space, public space, Federation Square.

This paper is based on an ARC Linkage grant on the use of large screens as communication platform for an experimental transnational public sphere. The project involves linking large screens in Melbourne and Seoul for three ‘urban media events’: “SMS_Origin” and “<Value>”, “Hello” and “Dance Battle”. We argue through these experiments that large screens situated in public space in metropolitan centres offer strategic leverage for understanding the potential for networked media to form public sphere.

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This is a transcript of the audience Q & A session that took place during “Large Screens and the Transnational Public Sphere” panel discussion at ISEA2013.

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