MEDIASCAPE, from cinema to Instagram: towards a methodology of analysis of the mediated urban landscape

MEDIASCAPE, from cinema to Instagram: towards a methodology of analysis of the mediated urban landscape

Joaquin Llorca / Colombia

The scope of current image capture and dissemination technologies has blurred the border between the urban landscape (urban landscape) and the mediatized landscape (mediascape). Just as painting was fundamental until the 19th century and cinema and photography portrayed the 20th century, the clues about the space of the 21st century are in social networks, data-dense platforms that not only show places chosen for their artistic or journalistic interest, but a broader and more democratic heritage that enthrones everyday life. Based on a methodological proposal that has used the cinematographic apparatus as a document of the mediated urban landscape of the 20th century (Llorca, 2017), the workshop proposes to the participants to trace the clues of the contemporary landscape from images from Instagram, a mobile application launched in 2010 which has become a medium in itself, given its capacity for format unification (Manovich, 2017).