2024-11-23T08:26:39-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/140004615/liam-young-s-triple-feature-review-of-city-everywhere-at-sci-arc Julia Ingalls 2015-10-29T14:08:00-04:00 >2015-11-06T00:04:27-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ip/ipgyg9amkpv1gnhb.JPG?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>A presentation about a world that is increasingly mediated by screens and digital conceptualizations of space on three screens with digital conceptualizations&nbsp;of&nbsp;space is not just meta: it was the engaging and immersive format of <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/132326552/liam-young-an-architect-s-skills-are-completely-wasted-on-making-buildings" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Liam Young</a>'s lecture/performance Wednesday night at <a href="http://archinect.com/sciarc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SCI-Arc</a>, "City Everywhere: Kim Kardashian and the Dark Side of the Screen." Young's fair warning to the packed lecture hall that the live sound mixing of his narration and syncing of three separate video feeds might go awry turned out to be unnecessary; the presentation was flawless while simultaneously visceral, a kind of <em>Purple Rose of Cairo</em> experience for architectural discourse. The pervasive reach of the internet makes us all actors in this particular film.&nbsp;</p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/mj/mjul9gx10ef7jhwc.jpg"></p><p>Young's presentation was a quasi-fictional tour of "a city that is hiding in plain sight," which is to say the current urban and mental space(s) that we inhabit thanks to the reality of digital mediation. The most shocking and resonant example of t...</p>