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− | '''Shannon Mattern''' is | + | '''Shannon Mattern''' is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at The New School in New York. Her writing and teaching focus on archives, libraries, and other media spaces; media infrastructures; spatial epistemologies; and mediated sensation and exhibition. She's the author of three books: ''The New Downtown Library: Designing with Communities''; ''Deep Mapping the Media City''; and ''Code and Clay, Dirt and Data: 5000 Years of Urban Media'', all published by University of Minnesota Press. She also writes a regular long-form column about urban data and mediated infrastructures for ''Places'', an open-access journal focusing on architecture, urbanism, and landscape. She lives in [[New York City]]. |
==Publications== | ==Publications== | ||
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* ''The New Downtown Library'', University of Minnesota Press, 2007. [https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-new-downtown-library] | * ''The New Downtown Library'', University of Minnesota Press, 2007. [https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-new-downtown-library] | ||
* ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=18530 Deep Mapping the Media City]'', University of Minnesota Press, 2015, xvi+51 pp. | * ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=18530 Deep Mapping the Media City]'', University of Minnesota Press, 2015, xvi+51 pp. | ||
− | * ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/ | + | * ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/40989fcb-aeee-4404-b8ac-00201118a7b0 Code and Clay, Data and Dirt: Five Thousand Years of Urban Media]'', University of Minnesota Press, 2017, 288 pp. [https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/code-and-clay-data-and-dirt] |
===Book chapters, papers, essays=== | ===Book chapters, papers, essays=== | ||
* [https://placesjournal.org/article/marginalia-little-libraries-in-the-urban-margins/ "Marginalia: Little Libraries in the Urban Margins"], ''Places'', 22 May 2012. | * [https://placesjournal.org/article/marginalia-little-libraries-in-the-urban-margins/ "Marginalia: Little Libraries in the Urban Margins"], ''Places'', 22 May 2012. | ||
− | * [ | + | * [https://placesjournal.org/article/paju-bookcity-the-next-chapter/ "Paju Bookcity: The Next Chapter"], ''Places'', Jan 2013. |
+ | * [https://placesjournal.org/article/infrastructural-tourism/ "Infrastructural Tourism"], ''Places'', 1 Jul 2013. | ||
* [http://amodern.net/article/ear-to-the-wire/ "Ear to the Wire: Listening to Historic Urban Infrastructures"], ''Amodern'' 2: "Network Archaeologies", Oct 2013. | * [http://amodern.net/article/ear-to-the-wire/ "Ear to the Wire: Listening to Historic Urban Infrastructures"], ''Amodern'' 2: "Network Archaeologies", Oct 2013. | ||
* [http://www.reanimationlibrary.org/pages/wpmattern "Bureaucracy’s Playthings"], Reanimation Library’s ''Word Processor'', 28 Oct 2013. | * [http://www.reanimationlibrary.org/pages/wpmattern "Bureaucracy’s Playthings"], Reanimation Library’s ''Word Processor'', 28 Oct 2013. | ||
− | * [ | + | * [https://placesjournal.org/article/methodolatry-and-the-art-of-measure/ "Methodolatry and the Art of Measure: The New Wave of Urban Data Science"], ''Places'', 5 Nov 2013. |
* [http://nautil.us/blog/preserving-yesterdays-tech-to-get-a-better-grasp-on-todays "Preserving Yesterday's Tech to Get a Better Gasp on Today's"], ''Nautilus'', 22 Nov 2013. | * [http://nautil.us/blog/preserving-yesterdays-tech-to-get-a-better-grasp-on-todays "Preserving Yesterday's Tech to Get a Better Gasp on Today's"], ''Nautilus'', 22 Nov 2013. | ||
− | * [ | + | * [https://placesjournal.org/article/interfacing-urban-intelligence/ "Interfacing Urban Intelligence"], ''Places'', 28 Apr 2014. |
* "Animated Spaces: Experience and Context in Interaction and Architectural Design Exhibitions", ''Senses & Society'' 9:2, Spring 2014, pp 131-150. | * "Animated Spaces: Experience and Context in Interaction and Architectural Design Exhibitions", ''Senses & Society'' 9:2, Spring 2014, pp 131-150. | ||
− | * [ | + | * [https://placesjournal.org/article/library-as-infrastructure "Library as Infrastructure"], ''Places'', 9 Jun 2014. |
* [https://medium.com/@shannonmattern/intellectual-furnishings-e2076cf5f2de "Intellectual Furnishings"], ''Medium'', 19 Oct 2014. | * [https://medium.com/@shannonmattern/intellectual-furnishings-e2076cf5f2de "Intellectual Furnishings"], ''Medium'', 19 Oct 2014. | ||
* [https://placesjournal.org/article/speculative-archaeology/ "Speculative Archaeology"], ''Places'', 12 Dec 2014. | * [https://placesjournal.org/article/speculative-archaeology/ "Speculative Archaeology"], ''Places'', 12 Dec 2014. | ||
* [https://medium.com/genres-of-scholarly-knowledge-production/unconventionalizing-convention-71cbe753ffb3 "Un-conventionalizing Convention"], ''Medium'', 11 Jan 2015. | * [https://medium.com/genres-of-scholarly-knowledge-production/unconventionalizing-convention-71cbe753ffb3 "Un-conventionalizing Convention"], ''Medium'', 11 Jan 2015. | ||
* [https://placesjournal.org/article/mission-control-a-history-of-the-urban-dashboard/ "Mission Control: A History of the Urban Dashboard"], ''Places'', Mar 2015. | * [https://placesjournal.org/article/mission-control-a-history-of-the-urban-dashboard/ "Mission Control: A History of the Urban Dashboard"], ''Places'', Mar 2015. | ||
− | * "Deep Time of Media Infrastructure", in ''[http:// | + | * "Deep Time of Media Infrastructure", in ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/0c8a0527-fb0d-4894-8cb8-39f401e2801d Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures]'', eds. Lisa Parks and Nicole Starosielski, Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2015. |
* [http://urbanomnibus.net/2015/06/middlewhere-landscapes-of-library-logistics/ "Middlewhere: The Landscape of Library Logistics"], ''Urban Omnibus'', Jun 2015; repr. as [http://motherboard.vice.com/read/behind-new-yorks-library-network "Behind New York’s Library Network"], ''Motherboard'', 21 Jul 2015. | * [http://urbanomnibus.net/2015/06/middlewhere-landscapes-of-library-logistics/ "Middlewhere: The Landscape of Library Logistics"], ''Urban Omnibus'', Jun 2015; repr. as [http://motherboard.vice.com/read/behind-new-yorks-library-network "Behind New York’s Library Network"], ''Motherboard'', 21 Jul 2015. | ||
* [https://placesjournal.org/article/indexing-the-world-of-tomorrow-1939-worlds-fair/ "Indexing the World of Tomorrow"], ''Places'', Feb 2016. | * [https://placesjournal.org/article/indexing-the-world-of-tomorrow-1939-worlds-fair/ "Indexing the World of Tomorrow"], ''Places'', Feb 2016. | ||
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* [https://placesjournal.org/article/all-eyes-on-the-border/ "All Eyes on the Border: In Trump’s America, the politics of recognition are changing"], ''Places'', Sep 2018. | * [https://placesjournal.org/article/all-eyes-on-the-border/ "All Eyes on the Border: In Trump’s America, the politics of recognition are changing"], ''Places'', Sep 2018. | ||
* [https://placesjournal.org/article/maintenance-and-care/ "Maintenance and Care: A working guide to the repair of rust, dust, cracks, and corrupted code in our cities, our homes, and our social relations"], ''Places'', Nov 2018. | * [https://placesjournal.org/article/maintenance-and-care/ "Maintenance and Care: A working guide to the repair of rust, dust, cracks, and corrupted code in our cities, our homes, and our social relations"], ''Places'', Nov 2018. | ||
+ | * [https://publicknowledge.sfmoma.org/local-codes-forms-of-spatial-knowledge/ "Local Codes: Forms of Spatial Knowledge"], ''Public Knowledge'', San Francisco: SFMOMA & San Francisco Public Library, 18 Jan 2019. | ||
+ | * [https://reallifemag.com/networked-dream-worlds/ "Networked Dream Worlds: Is 5G solving real, pressing problems or merely creating new ones?"], ''Real Life'', 8 Jul 2019. | ||
+ | * [http://www.lapsuslima.com/minimal-maintenance/ "Minimal Maintenance"], ''Lapsus Lima'', 2 Oct 2019. | ||
* more: [https://placesjournal.org/author/shannon-mattern/ writings in ''Places''], [http://medium.com/@shannonmattern writings on ''Medium.com''], [https://www.newschool.edu/public-engagement/school-of-media-studies-faculty/?id=4d54-4934-4d7a-4577 more] | * more: [https://placesjournal.org/author/shannon-mattern/ writings in ''Places''], [http://medium.com/@shannonmattern writings on ''Medium.com''], [https://www.newschool.edu/public-engagement/school-of-media-studies-faculty/?id=4d54-4934-4d7a-4577 more] |
Revision as of 15:47, 7 October 2019
Shannon Mattern is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at The New School in New York. Her writing and teaching focus on archives, libraries, and other media spaces; media infrastructures; spatial epistemologies; and mediated sensation and exhibition. She's the author of three books: The New Downtown Library: Designing with Communities; Deep Mapping the Media City; and Code and Clay, Dirt and Data: 5000 Years of Urban Media, all published by University of Minnesota Press. She also writes a regular long-form column about urban data and mediated infrastructures for Places, an open-access journal focusing on architecture, urbanism, and landscape. She lives in New York City.
Publications
Books
- The New Downtown Library, University of Minnesota Press, 2007. [1]
- Deep Mapping the Media City, University of Minnesota Press, 2015, xvi+51 pp.
- Code and Clay, Data and Dirt: Five Thousand Years of Urban Media, University of Minnesota Press, 2017, 288 pp. [2]
Book chapters, papers, essays
- "Marginalia: Little Libraries in the Urban Margins", Places, 22 May 2012.
- "Paju Bookcity: The Next Chapter", Places, Jan 2013.
- "Infrastructural Tourism", Places, 1 Jul 2013.
- "Ear to the Wire: Listening to Historic Urban Infrastructures", Amodern 2: "Network Archaeologies", Oct 2013.
- "Bureaucracy’s Playthings", Reanimation Library’s Word Processor, 28 Oct 2013.
- "Methodolatry and the Art of Measure: The New Wave of Urban Data Science", Places, 5 Nov 2013.
- "Preserving Yesterday's Tech to Get a Better Gasp on Today's", Nautilus, 22 Nov 2013.
- "Interfacing Urban Intelligence", Places, 28 Apr 2014.
- "Animated Spaces: Experience and Context in Interaction and Architectural Design Exhibitions", Senses & Society 9:2, Spring 2014, pp 131-150.
- "Library as Infrastructure", Places, 9 Jun 2014.
- "Intellectual Furnishings", Medium, 19 Oct 2014.
- "Speculative Archaeology", Places, 12 Dec 2014.
- "Un-conventionalizing Convention", Medium, 11 Jan 2015.
- "Mission Control: A History of the Urban Dashboard", Places, Mar 2015.
- "Deep Time of Media Infrastructure", in Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures, eds. Lisa Parks and Nicole Starosielski, Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2015.
- "Middlewhere: The Landscape of Library Logistics", Urban Omnibus, Jun 2015; repr. as "Behind New York’s Library Network", Motherboard, 21 Jul 2015.
- "Indexing the World of Tomorrow", Places, Feb 2016.
- "Instrumental City: The View from Hudson Yards, circa 2019", Places, Apr 2016.
- "Cloud and Field", Places, Aug 2016.
- "Animated Aberrations, Rebellious Objects", Volume 49, Sep 2016, pp 39-43. On Zoe Beloff.
- "Public In/Formation", Places, Nov 2016.
- "Scaffolding, Hard and Soft: Media Infrastructures as Critical and Generative Structures", in The Routledge Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities, ed. Jentery Sayers, Routledge, 2016. [3]
- "Equipment for Redemptive Living", in Correctional Collections, ed. Joel Stoehr, New York: Parsons School of Design, 2016. [4]
- "Of Mud, Media, and the Metropolis: Aggregating Histories of Writing and Urbanization", Cultural Politics 12(3): "Geological Media", ed. Jussi Parikka, Fall 2016, pp 310-331. [5]
- "Before BILLY: A Brief History of the Bookcase", Harvard Design Magazine 43: "Shelf Life", Fall/Winter 2016.
- "A City Is Not a Computer", Places, Feb 2017.
- "Sonic Archaeologies", in The Sound Studies Companion, ed. Michael Bull, New York: Routledge, 2017. [6]
- "Closet Archive: A stuffed history of the closet, where the “past becomes space”", Places, Jul 2017.
- "Mapping’s Intelligent Agents", Places, Sep 2017.
- "The Big Data of Ice, Rocks, Soils, and Sediments: Inside the material archives of climate science", Places, Nov 2017.
- "Databodies in Codespace: As the bioengineering of people and cities converges, where do we locate the public sphere?", Places, Apr 2018.
- "Community Plumbing: How the hardware store orders things, neighborhoods, and material worlds", Places, Jul 2018.
- "All Eyes on the Border: In Trump’s America, the politics of recognition are changing", Places, Sep 2018.
- "Maintenance and Care: A working guide to the repair of rust, dust, cracks, and corrupted code in our cities, our homes, and our social relations", Places, Nov 2018.
- "Local Codes: Forms of Spatial Knowledge", Public Knowledge, San Francisco: SFMOMA & San Francisco Public Library, 18 Jan 2019.
- "Networked Dream Worlds: Is 5G solving real, pressing problems or merely creating new ones?", Real Life, 8 Jul 2019.
- "Minimal Maintenance", Lapsus Lima, 2 Oct 2019.
Interviews
- Gina Conley, "Shannon Mattern", Figure/Ground Communication, Aug 2012.
- Trevor Owens, "Preservation Aesthetics: An interview with Shannon Mattern", The Signal: Digital Preservation, The Library of Congress, 9 Jun 2014.
- Christine Mitchell, "Media Archaeology of Poetry and Sound: A Conversation with Shannon Mattern", Amodern 4: "The Poetry Series", Mar 2015.