Ouroboros (2008) by Alvaro Cassinelli

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Ouroboros (2008) by Alvaro Cassinelli

“Ouroboros” is a shared virtual space, a world-scale tunnel built by chaining video-conferencing cameras and projectors in a closed loop around the world. This virtual space comes into contact with the Earth at several entry points or “Gates” situated in different cities, each standing in a location particularly representative of the place (public squares, mar-kets, private homes, etc). Each Gate is simply composed of a projection screen, a video camera a little far away, and an “interstitial” public space in between. The camera captures the whole view – that is, the passersby and the standing projection screen blended in the background – and the resulting live stream is sent over the Internet to be projected onto a simi-lar structure – in a different city, in a different country, in a different continent. The process repeats itself until the loop is completed, as the final video is projected back onto the first screen – only to restart a tour in an eternal circulation. In its (almost) instantaneous travel around the world, the video stream will gather “souvenirs” of the visited places. Peo-ple from all around the world will appear on the screen as standing in the middle of a tunnel whose walls are composed by an infinite recursion of (Matryoshka-like) nested video windows; one can recognize the actual location of the shooting in each of these rectangular frames.

Tecnoscienza is a scientific journal focusing on the relationships between science, technology and society. The Journal is published twice a year with an open access and peer reviewed policy; it is managed by an Editorial Board with the supervision of an International Advisory Board.

Tecnoscienza è una rivista scientifica che indaga i rapporti tra scienza, tecnolo-gia e società. La rivista è semestrale, open access e peer-reviewed; è gestita da un Comitato di Redazione, con la supervisione di un Comitato Scientifico Internazio-nale.

Editorial Board Coordination

(University of Trento – IT) Paolo Magaudda (University of Padova – IT)

Manuela Perrotta (Queen Mary London – UK)

Editorial Board

Stefano Crabu (University of Padova – IT)

Roberto Lusardi (Università di Bergamo – IT)

Enrico Marchetti (University of Ferrara – IT)

Alvise Mattozzi (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano – IT)

Sergio Minniti (Yachay Tech University – ECU)

Francesca Musiani (CNRS Paris –FR) Laura Lucia Parolin (University of Southern Denmark – DK)

Annalisa Pelizza (University of Twente – NL) Giuseppina Pellegrino (University of Calabria – IT) Barbara Pentimalli (University of Roma La Sapienza – IT)

Assunta Viteritti (University of Roma La Sapienza – IT)

International Advisory Board

(University of Napoli – IT) Barbara Allen (Virginia Tech University – USA)

Mario Biagioli

(University of California Davis – USA) Wiebe Bijker

(Maastricht University – NL) Geoffrey Bowker (University of Pittsburgh – USA)

Massimiano Bucchi (University of Trento – IT)

Christine Hine (University of Surrey – UK)

Massimo Mazzotti (University of California Berkeley – USA)

Amade M'charek (University of Amsterdam – NL)

Alessandro Mongili (University of Padova – IT)

Michela Nacci (University of L’Aquila – IT)

Federico Neresini (University of Padova – IT)

Giuliano Pancaldi (University of Bologna – IT)

Luigi Pellizzoni (University of Pisa – IT)

Trevor Pinch (Cornell University – USA)

Lucy Suchman (Lancaster University – UK) Mariachiara Tallacchini (Catholic University of Piacenza – IT)

Paolo Volontè (Politecnico of Milano – IT)

Table of Contents

TECNOSCiENZA

Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies

Vol. 8, Nr. 2, December 2017

Cover Ouroboros by Alvaro Cassinelli

Special Issue

Data-driven Cities? Digital Urbanism and its Proxies

and Laurie Waller

Guest Editors’ Introduction

Claudio Coletta, Liam Heaphy, Sung-Yueh Perng and Laurie Waller

Data-driven Cities? Digital Urbanism and its Proxies: Introduction p. 5

Lectures

Rob Kitchin

The Realtimeness of Smart Cities p. 19

Ignacio Farías and Sarah Widmer

Ordinary Smart Cities. How Calculated Users, Professional Citizens, Technology Companies and City Administrations Engage

in a More-than-digital Politics. p. 43

Essays

Aaron Shapiro

The Urban Stack. A Topology for Urban Data Infrastructures p. 61

Darren J. Reed

Discovering the Data-driven City: Breakdown and Literacy in the

Installation of the Elm Sensor Network p. 81

David Hick, Adam Urban and Jörg Rainer Noennig

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Rafael de Almeida Evangelista, Tiago C. Soares, Sarah Costa Schmidt and Felipe Lavignatti

DIO: A Surveillance Camera Mapping Game for Mobile Devices p. 129

Scenario

Rethinking the Spaces of Standardisation through the Concept of Site p. 151

Crossing Boundaries

Anders Blok, Antoine Courmont

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Clément Marquet

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and Meg Young

Data Platforms and Cities p. 175

Book Reviews

G.C. Bowker, S. Timmermans, A.E. Clarke and E. Balka (eds.)

Boundary Obects and Beyond. Working with Leigh Star (2016)

by Alessandro Narduzzo

J. Evans, A. Karvonen and R. Raven (eds.) The Experimental City (2016) by Claudia Mendes and Pim Peters

J. Gabrys Program Earth. Environmental Sensing Technology and the Making

of a Computational Planet (2016)

by Caspar Menkman

M. Krajewski, J. Meerhoff and S. Trüby (eds.) Dienstbarkeitsarchitekturen.

Zwischen Service-Korridor und Ambient Intelligence [Architectures of

Subservience. Between Back-Corridors and Ambient Intelligence] (2017)

and A. Meier and E. Portmann (eds.) Smart City. Strategie, Governance und

Projekte [Smart City. Strategy, Governance and Projects] (2016)

by Susann Wagenknecht

G.F. Lanzara Shifting Practices. Reflections on technology, Practice, and Innovation (2016) by Attila Bruni

B. Latour Piccola filosofia dell’enunciazione (con una nota di Jacques Fontanille)

[Tiny philosophy of enunciation (with a note by Jacques Fontanille)] (2017)

by Alvise Mattozzi

T. Moreira Science, Technology and the Ageing Society (2017) by Roberto Lusardi

T. Scholz and N. Schneider (eds.) Ours to Hack and to Own. The Rise of Platform

Cooperativism, a New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet (2016)