ABSTRACT
This chapter explores one aspect of how embodiment is reconfigured in digitally-mediated cities. Urban scholars have paid considerable attention to the immense streams of digital personal, environmental and geospatial data flowing through and beyond cities, but less to the data that becomes images of various kinds. Yet at the interface between digital images and their viewers, particular kinds of bodies coagulate: flesh is organized visually and spatially. The chapter argues that long-established ways of seeing and constituting bodies in cities are being joined by other ways of seeing other forms of embodiment, which are caught up with the specific dynamics of urban data circulation. The chapter argues that animatic embodiment is becoming part of the digital refiguration of urban space.
