Organized by Hou Hanru and Hans Ulrich Obrist and featured in locations across Europe between 1997 and 1999, the groundbreaking exhibition Cities on the Move highlighted an evolving understanding of modernism based on the post–World War II cities of East and Southeast Asia. Curating a visual experience that mimicked the controlled chaos of late-twentieth-century Asian cities, the show brought together more than 150 artists and architects in an attempt to identify hybrids and commonalities in a pan-Asian cultural development that arose in the wake of colonialism and the Cold War, and has continued into the age of “hypercities”1 like Bangkok, Hong Kong, Kaula Lampur, and Tokyo. In discussing the development of Cities on the Move , Obrist stated: > Normally curators know what they are looking for, but our research was a complicated process. We never worked out a complete exhibition concept—it was only during our travels that the whole complexity of the urban conditions started to dawn on us. As a result of this research it became clear that the theme of the exhibition would be the city and its dynamic variables. A city is never static, it never sleeps. Using these materials, we put together an exhibition that is in constant motion itself.2 Ironically, this exhibition only travelled through Europe, securing the established divide between Asia and the Euro/America-centric visions of internationalism. Nonetheless, the exhibition opened …
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Pub Date : 2017-09-01DOI: 10.1525/AFT.2017.45.2-3.4
Lyell Davies
{"title":"Becoming Literate in Communications Activism: Media Literacy and the US Movement for Media Justice and Media Reform","authors":"Lyell Davies","doi":"10.1525/AFT.2017.45.2-3.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/AFT.2017.45.2-3.4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":443446,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Technology Transfer and Society","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121811167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-09-01DOI: 10.1525/AFT.2017.45.2-3.9
J. Corner
{"title":"Falsehood in Focus: Media and the Politics of Veracity","authors":"J. Corner","doi":"10.1525/AFT.2017.45.2-3.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/AFT.2017.45.2-3.9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":443446,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Technology Transfer and Society","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129763313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-09-01DOI: 10.1525/AFT.2017.45.2-3.2
Dolores Flamiano
{"title":"May Symposium: Media Literacy Highlights","authors":"Dolores Flamiano","doi":"10.1525/AFT.2017.45.2-3.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/AFT.2017.45.2-3.2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":443446,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Technology Transfer and Society","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116281498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-09-01DOI: 10.1525/aft.2017.45.2-3.42
Sarah Goodrum
{"title":"The Power of Protest Imagery Then and Now: Christian Schulz's West Berlin","authors":"Sarah Goodrum","doi":"10.1525/aft.2017.45.2-3.42","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2017.45.2-3.42","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":443446,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Technology Transfer and Society","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125281059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-09-01DOI: 10.1525/aft.2017.45.2-3.27
A. E. López
{"title":"Ethnopoetics of Reality: The Work of Sky Hopinka","authors":"A. E. López","doi":"10.1525/aft.2017.45.2-3.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2017.45.2-3.27","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":443446,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Technology Transfer and Society","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128959819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-09-01DOI: 10.1525/AFT.2017.45.2-3.52
T. Donovan
{"title":"SECOND REFLECTION, SECOND INNOCENCE: Linguistic-Affect and Anti-Debt Prefigurement in Corina Kennedy's Tender for All","authors":"T. Donovan","doi":"10.1525/AFT.2017.45.2-3.52","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/AFT.2017.45.2-3.52","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":443446,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Technology Transfer and Society","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122700785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-09-01DOI: 10.1525/AFT.2017.45.2-3.20
Bill Kouwenhoven
{"title":"Where We are Now: A Conversation with Rita Leistner","authors":"Bill Kouwenhoven","doi":"10.1525/AFT.2017.45.2-3.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/AFT.2017.45.2-3.20","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":443446,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Technology Transfer and Society","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124920457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-09-01DOI: 10.1525/AFT.2017.45.2-3.13
Soumitree Gupta, Crystine Miller
{"title":"Bearing Witness in A Post-Factual Age: Documentary Shorts on the Syrian Crisis and Critical Media Literacy","authors":"Soumitree Gupta, Crystine Miller","doi":"10.1525/AFT.2017.45.2-3.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/AFT.2017.45.2-3.13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":443446,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Technology Transfer and Society","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128346251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-09-01DOI: 10.1525/AFT.2017.45.2-3.72
Elisabeth Tonnard
{"title":"An Empty Field","authors":"Elisabeth Tonnard","doi":"10.1525/AFT.2017.45.2-3.72","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/AFT.2017.45.2-3.72","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":443446,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Technology Transfer and Society","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122052996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}