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We live in a world enclosed by images. This is a phenomenon that has been much debated and documented across disciplines for over a century in the age of film, television and internet. Today, the digital production of images and our screenbased interaction on hand held and laptop devices has become, what we may call, the defining characteristic of today's spatial and interpersonal experiences. This paper sets out work being done by GIRAC (the Research Group in Architecture and Cinema) at the University of Valladolid, Spain on how this manifests itself in architectural design and theory, and how it results in a new approach to our understanding of architecture and, by extension, the city. It is a new hybrid mediaarchitecture approach that, we argue, more fully exploits the contemporary phenomenological potential of our new media saturated environments and results in new forms of spatial design practice

Keywords: enclosed by images ; film, media, advertisement, moving image and new technologies of visualisation can be used as matter and material in architectural and urban production ; Information and image create a hybrid audio-visual and spatial phenomenological atmosphere ; media, cinema and architecture ; new hybrid media-architecture ; the architectural contributions to be made by multimedia systems ; the city in the night of the science fiction cinema from Metropolis to Blade Runner ; the experience of some own ephemeral mediaticarchitectural works at the University of Valladolid ; the inclusive look of Herbert Bayer ; the integration of media and architecture: Charles and Ray Eames, Josef Svoboda, Toyo Ito and others ; the mixing of medias, spaces and realities in the film Cinema Paradiso of Giuseppe Tornatore ; the parallel spaces of Wings of Desire of Win Wenders and the coding transparencies and opacities of Dogville of Lars von Trier ; the potential of emerging technologies as informational interfaces ; towards a growing blurring of the virtual and the physical thresholds: recent artistic experiments

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Mediatic Umbraculum – Architecture, Cinema, and Multimedia Systems
Intellect , 178 (2024); https://doi.org/10.1386/9781789389807_11
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