This conversation was recorded on 13th October 2021 as a part of the exhibition Owed to a certain Emptiness: Infra-structuring the Conflictorium between Shannon Mattern and Avni Sethi held at the Aronson Galleries at The New School hosted by the Vera List Center of Art and Politics in New York.
Shannon Mattern is a Professor of Anthropology at the New School for Social Research. Her writing and teaching focus on archives, libraries, and other media spaces; media infrastructures; spatial epistemologies; and mediated sensation and exhibition. She is the author of The New Downtown Library: Designing with Communities; Deep Mapping the Media City; Code and Clay, Data and Dirt: 5000 Years of Urban Media, all published by University of Minnesota Press; and A City Is Not a Computer, published by Princeton University Press. She also contributes a regular long-form column about urban data and mediated infrastructures to Places Journal. In addition, she serves as president of the board of the Metropolitan New York Library Council and regularly collaborates on public design and interactive projects and exhibitions. You can find her at wordsinspace.net.
Shannon Mattern Selected Readings:
Little Libraries in the Urban Margins
To know more about the exhibition visit - https://veralistcenter.org/exhibitions/owed-to-a-certain-emptiness/
To know more about Conflictorium visit - https://www.conflictorium.org/
