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Shannon Mattern

PhD, Culture and Communication, New York University

Associate Professor in Media Studies

Media Contact Information:

This expert is available for interviews. To contact this expert or other experts, please call The New School’s Public Relations office at 212.229.5151.

Areas of Expertise:

Media and spatial theory and practice (media and architecture, the use of media in public design projects, media in urban space, urban media infrastructures, media and geography, the influence of media on the way people design and conceive of space, spatial and formal dimensions of media); places of media production and consumption; media and materiality

Profile:

Shannon Mattern’s teaching and research address relationships between media and spatial theory and practice—particularly links between mass media, architecture, and urban planning—and between media and contemporary art. Her work is motivated by a desire to look “beyond the screen” or page to the larger arena in which media operate and to the convergences between media and other fields of creative production and scholarship.

Courses Taught:

• Media and Architecture
• The City and Sound
• Libraries, Archives, and Databases
• Media and Materiality
• Media Exhibition Design
• Media Space/Public Space 
• Sound and Space
• Urban Media Archaeology

Recent Publications:

The New Downtown Library: Designing with Communities (2007)

“Notes, Lists and Everyday Inscriptions,” special issue, The New Everyday (Fall 2010)

“Fluid Text, Total Design: The Woodberry Poetry Room as Idea, Collection, and Place,” Space and Culture (forthcoming)

“Geometries of Reading, Light of Learning: Louis I. Kahn’s Library at Philips Exeter,” special issue, Nexus Network Journal (forthcoming)

“Font of a Nation: Creating a National Graphic Identity for Qatar,” Public Culture (2008)

“Broadcasting Space: China Central Television’s New Headquarters,” International Journal of Communication (2008)

“Puffs of Air: Communicating by Vacuum,” in AIR, Alphabet City #15, ed. John Knechtel (2010)

“Edge Blending: Light, Crystalline Fluidity, and the Materiality of New Media at Gehry’s IAC Headquarters,” in Media Houses: Architecture, Media and the Production of Centrality, ed. Kristina Riegert and Staffan Ericsson (2010)

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