Susanne Jaschko is working a rich seam, the plane created at the intersection of questions of public space and the spaces of new media. She has been presenting at the Urban Screens conferences, and she put together the excellent Open House - Architecture and Technology for Intelligent Living at Vitra Museum. She also was a co-curator at SCAPE 2006 - a Biennial of art in public places. At her website she posts some interesting papers, including one given at the "Interface & Society" conference in Oslo late last year. Here are some quotes from her Oslo paper:

«What we currently find is a strong move of media art into urban space, which happens parallel to a general refocusing on public and urban space in various academic and economic fields and which at first glance seems to be antipodal to the increasing individualization of information and its independence from location. And it’s not only media art which has gained an almost constant temporary presence in public space, but public space is presently ‘rediscovered’ by contemporary visual art in general...

«The ubiquitous use of digital, networked and mobile media in our everyday environment raises new questions about definitions of both private and public space. Invisible surveillance systems and spy bots, the semi-private forums of on-line chats, the use of the cell phone in public space, and wireless access to the internet -- they all have a strong impact on our understanding of private and public space – and they demand for more precise and accurate definitions and demarcations of these spaces.»

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