Shannon Mattern

Shannon Mattern is an Associate Professor in the School of Media Studies at The New School in New York. Her teaching and research address relationships between the forms and materialities of media and the spaces -- architectural, urban, and conceptual -- they create and inhabit. She has written about libraries and archives, media companies' headquarters, place branding, public design projects, urban media art, media acoustics, media infrastructures, and material texts. Formerly a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania, she has also taught at NYU, Parsons The New School for Design, and Rutgers University.

Publications

Books

• The New Downtown Library, University of Minnesota Press, 2007. [1]
• Deep Mapping the Media City, University of Minnesota Press, 2015. [2]

Papers, essays

• "Marginalia: Little Libraries in the Urban Margins", Places, 22 May 2012.
• "Infrastructural Tourism", Places, 1 Jul 2013.
• "Ear to the Wire: Listening to Historic Urban Infrastructures", Amodern 2: "Network Archaeologies", Oct 2013.
• "Bureaucracy’s Playthings", Reanimation Library’s Word Processor, 28 Oct 2013.
• "Methodolatry and the Art of Measure: The New Wave of Urban Data Science", Places, 5 Nov 2013.
• "Preserving Yesterday's Tech to Get a Better Gasp on Today's", Nautilus, 22 Nov 2013.
• "Interfacing Urban Intelligence", Places, 28 Apr 2014.
• "Animated Spaces: Experience and Context in Interaction and Architectural Design Exhibitions", Senses & Society 9:2, Spring 2014, pp 131-150.
• "Library as Infrastructure", Places, 9 Jun 2014.
• "Intellectual Furnishings", Medium, 19 Oct 2014.
• "Speculative Archaeology", Places, 12 Dec 2014.
• "Un-conventionalizing Convention", Medium, 11 Jan 2015.
• "Mission Control: A History of the Urban Dashboard", Places, Mar 2015.
• "Deep Time of Media Infrastructure", in Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures, eds. Lisa Parks and Nicole Starosielski, Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2015.
• "Middlewhere: The Landscape of Library Logistics", Urban Omnibus, Jun 2015.
• "Indexing the World of Tomorrow", Places, Feb 2016.
• "Instrumental City: The View from Hudson Yards, circa 2019", Places, Apr 2016.
• "Cloud and Field", Places, Aug 2016.
• "Public In/Formation", Places, Nov 2016.
• more: writings in Places, writings on Medium.com, more

Interviews

• Gina Conley, "Shannon Mattern", Figure/Ground Communication, Aug 2012.
• "Preservation Aesthetics: Interview with Trevor Owens", The Signal: Digital Preservation, The Library of Congress, 9 Jun 2014.
• Christine Mitchell, "Media Archaeology of Poetry and Sound: A Conversation with Shannon Mattern", Amodern 4: "The Poetry Series", Mar 2015.

Links

• Personal website
• Profile at New School, [3]
• Twitter