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The second Street Talk of 2025 is thrilled to welcome Prof. Dr. Nanna Verhoeff as their featured guest. During this talk, Verhoeff will elaborate on her recently published monograph Urban Screens: Situations, Practices, Concepts.

In her recent book on urban screens, Verhoeff reflects on urban spectatorship and the specific mode of address of screens and other forms of urban media art that aim to reflect on the urban condition while seeking to foster alternatives futures – big or small. This, she proposes, takes place in the domain of the hodos: between the street as locus and the way as method of urban publicness. While this book offers a method and theoretical concepts for analyzing spectatorship of urban screens and media art from such a situational perspective, this street-level perspective may also be useful for other socio-cultural practices, relatings, and processes taking place in urban situations, past, present and future. She would love to discuss with you the potential for such a historical comparative approach..
 
 

Bio:
Nanna Verhoeff is Professor of Screen Cultures and Society in the Department of Media and Culture Studies of the Faculty of Humanities at Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ. She dedicates her research both to the comparative study of screen media, and to the development of methods and concepts for the creative humanities. Previous monographs on screen culture – The West in Early Cinema: After the Beginning and Mobile Screens: The Visual Regime of Navigation – are also published with Amsterdam ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ Press. This latest book on urban screens completes this trilogy, which proposes methods and concepts for comparing and analyzing screen media across times and places.