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Metropolis: Imagining The Global City

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This chapter explores the exhibition Metropolis held at the National Gallery of Victoria’s (NGV) in 2004. It focuses on how interactive and immersive digital media can re-imagine human life within the global city. The predominantly North American cinematic works range from animation to documentary. All are connected by the central question of what is the nature of existence within the global city? They show lives punctuated by the need to connect, questions of cultural identity, global economies, terrorism and the remembrance of home. Each artwork presents a different vision of the global city, shaped by heightened flows of people, media, finance, ideas and technologies.

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Langdon, M. (2014). Metropolis: Imagining The Global City. In: The Work of Art in a Digital Age: Art, Technology and Globalisation. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1270-4_6

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