This looks to be totally cool:
Surrey Urban Screen—located on the west wall of Chuck Bailey Recreation Centre, 13458-107A Avenue—is an outreach venue of the Surrey Art Gallery. The venue is Canada’s largest permanent, non-commercial outdoor urban screen. It can be viewed from SkyTrain between Gateway and Surrey Central stations.
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Urban Screens & City Building
Public Talk with Mirjam Struppek
December 2
Berlin-based urban media researcher Mirjam Struppek will present The Growing Global Phenomenon of Urban Screens, and will look at crucial issues such as rethinking content, ownership, infrastructure and careful integration in the urban environment. International examples showcased in past Urban Screens and Media Facades festivals will be shared as experiments in this field of urban digital culture.
Mirjam Struppek works internationally as an urbanist, researcher and curator, and is the founder of the International Urban Screens Association www.urbanscreensassoc.org and co-initiator of the Media Facades Festivals 2008/2010. She has been instrumental in building the urban screens community through worldwide events, advocating the use of screens in public spaces for cultural content as well as site specific and interactive screening projects. For more information on Mirjam Struppek: www.interactionfield.de
About the Talk | Friday, December 2 , 7pm
Held at SFU Surrey (Westminster Savings Lecture Theatre).
Admission is free. Seating is limited. Pre-register at artgallery@surrey.ca
