Spatial Computing - Laura Kurgan and e-flux Architecture - Editorial

Editorial

Laura Kurgan, Adam Vosburgh, and e-flux Architecture

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Aram Bartholl, Map, 2019. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Kulturbüro Arnsberg.

Spatial Computing
June 2024










Notes
1

Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (1964; Cambridge: MIT Press, 1994).

2

Wikipedia, s.v. “Spatial computing,” .

3

Apple Vision Pro, .

4

The term “spatial computing” has been used by Shashi Shekhar and Pamela Vold in their book Spatial Computing (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2020), xi. For a critical evaluation of the same spatial technologies, see Laura Kurgan’s Close Up at a Distance (New York: Zone Books, 2013), 38-54.

5

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Imperatives to Re-Imagine the Planet (Vienna: Passagen Verlag, 1999), 44.

6

See Toni Morrison, The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2019), 34.