ABSTRACT
Urban screens and installations can make present and perceivable data about, and frictions between, the individual, the social, and the environmental. They do so by engaging more than the visual register, only. Such sensory works compel us to think and feel beyond the surface level of the city. Opening up spectatorial territories for engaging with our environment, they enable forms of knowledge production that activate and fundamentally imply our own situated positionality. As such, urban screens can engage spectators as response-able subjects by bringing them into new sensory and sensible relationships with their immediate, or broader, environments. This chapter examines media architecture, artistic installations, and scientific knowledge objects that in various way activate and mobilize our senses and sensibilities.
