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Dave Colangelo

Dave Colangelo

Media & Culture, Technology in Practice
DepartmentProfessional Communication (Toronto Metropolitan University)
Areas of ExpertiseCommunication and media theory; Communications, community and creativity; Cultural studies; Global media and international communication; Media activism and social movements; Media arts; Visual communication; Visual culture.
https://www.torontomu.ca/procom/people/Dave-Colangelo/

I investigate the critical and creative potential of large-scale public projections, urban screens, and media architecture and the technical and social networks connected to them. I consider the role that these elements can play within practices of monumentality, public art, digital placemaking, and “smart cities” to address equity, diversity, and inclusion. I primarily use research-creation to create interdisciplinary opportunities for critical study, community engagement, experiential learning, city building, and collaborative creative practice.

Public Visualization Studio (external link) , Public Art Committee

Recent publications:

Fredericks, J., Caldwell, G.A., Tomitsch, M., Haeusler, M.H., Colangelo, D., et al. (2023). Media Architecture Compendium Vol. 2: Concepts, Methods, Practice. Stuttgart: Avedition.

Colangelo, D., P. Davila, I. Men. (2023). “Receipts and Receipts NB: Critical Experiments in Mediated Testimony.” Interactive Film & Media Journal 3 (1, Winter 2023): 82:89.

Colangelo D., and Z. Melzer. (2022). “On Emptiness: Spacing in Media Architecture.” In The Routledge Companion to Media and the City, edited by Brenden Kredell, Erica Stein, and Germaine Halegoua. Routledge: 154-166.

Colangelo, D. (2020). The building as screen: A history, theory, and practice of massive media. Amsterdam University Press.

Colangelo D., and Z. Melzer (eds). (2020). Media and the physically distanced city. Mediapolis. Dossier 5(3).

Colangelo, D. (2019). We Live Here: Media Architecture as Critical Spatial Practice. Space and Culture, Journal Article, 120633121984380.

Colangelo, D. (2018). Hitchcock, Film Studies, And New Media: The Impact Of Technology On The Analysis Of Film. In S. Hidalgo & A. Gaudreault (Eds.), Technology and Film Scholarship (Vol. 1–Book, Section, pp. 127–148). Amsterdam University Press.

Colangelo, D. (2018). Cities as exhibition spaces: Illuminated infrastructure in the smart city. In S. MacLeod, T. Austin, J. Hale, & O. H. Hing-Kay (Eds.), The Future of Museum and Gallery Design (1st ed., Vol. 1–Book, Section, pp. 59–70). Routledge.

Colangelo, D. (2017). Book Review: Ingrid Hoelzl and Rémi Marie, Softimage: Towards a New Theory of the Digital Image. Journal of Visual Culture, 16(1), 118–121.

Dávila, P., Colangelo, D., Chan, M., & Tu, R. (2017). Expressive Cartography, Boundary Objects and the Aesthetics of Public Visualization. Leonardo (Oxford), 50(5), 509–510.