Beyond "Things That Flicker": The Next Step for Media Architecture,Reconciling 'media' and 'architecture' evokes clumsy associations with Times Square, screens, integrated LEDs, paparazzi, or more generally 'things that flicker'. Image © Flickr CC User MK Feeney

Beyond "Things That Flicker": The Next Step for Media Architecture,Institut du Monde Arabe / Jean Nouvel. Image © Flickr b00nj / www.flickr.com/b00nj

Beyond "Things That Flicker": The Next Step for Media Architecture,"We simply do not know how humans respond to a variety of environmental stimuli. Artists like Olafur Eliasson have an uncanny sense of it – a sense that lends their projects a visceral power." Above, Eliasson's "Your Rainbow Panorama". Image © Lars Aarö

Beyond "Things That Flicker": The Next Step for Media Architecture,Map of the internet. Image via http://mountpeaks.wordpress.com/

Beyond "Things That Flicker": The Next Step for Media Architecture,Galleria Centercity / UNStudio. Image © UNStudio. Photographed by Kim Jong-Kwan

Beyond "Things That Flicker": The Next Step for Media Architecture,MIT Senseable City Lab’s Local Warming. Image Courtesy of MIT

Beyond "Things That Flicker": The Next Step for Media Architecture,Abu Dhabi Investment Council Headquarters. Image © Edward Denison, 2012. Image Courtesy of Images Publishing

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Beyond "Things That Flicker": The Next Step for Media Architecture