Shannon Mattern
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Shannon Mattern is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at The New School in New York. Her writing and teaching focus on archives, libraries, and other media spaces; media infrastructures; spatial epistemologies; and mediated sensation and exhibition. She's the author of three books: The New Downtown Library: Designing with Communities; Deep Mapping the Media City; and Code and Clay, Dirt and Data: 5000 Years of Urban Media, all published by University of Minnesota Press. She also writes a regular long-form column about urban data and mediated infrastructures for Places, an open-access journal focusing on architecture, urbanism, and landscape. She lives in New York City.
Publications
Books
- The New Downtown Library, University of Minnesota Press, 2007. [1]
- Deep Mapping the Media City, University of Minnesota Press, 2015, xvi+51 pp.
- Code and Clay, Data and Dirt: Five Thousand Years of Urban Media, University of Minnesota Press, 2017, 288 pp. [2]
Book chapters, papers, essays
- "Marginalia: Little Libraries in the Urban Margins", Places, 22 May 2012.
- "Paju Bookcity: The Next Chapter", Places, Jan 2013.
- "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; repr. as "Behind New York’s Library Network", Motherboard, 21 Jul 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.
- "Animated Aberrations, Rebellious Objects", Volume 49, Sep 2016, pp 39-43. On Zoe Beloff.
- "Public In/Formation", Places, Nov 2016.
- "Scaffolding, Hard and Soft: Media Infrastructures as Critical and Generative Structures", in The Routledge Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities, ed. Jentery Sayers, Routledge, 2016. [3]
- "Equipment for Redemptive Living", in Correctional Collections, ed. Joel Stoehr, New York: Parsons School of Design, 2016. [4]
- "Of Mud, Media, and the Metropolis: Aggregating Histories of Writing and Urbanization", Cultural Politics 12(3): "Geological Media", ed. Jussi Parikka, Fall 2016, pp 310-331. [5]
- "Before BILLY: A Brief History of the Bookcase", Harvard Design Magazine 43: "Shelf Life", Fall/Winter 2016.
- "A City Is Not a Computer", Places, Feb 2017.
- "Sonic Archaeologies", in The Sound Studies Companion, ed. Michael Bull, New York: Routledge, 2017. [6]
- "Closet Archive: A stuffed history of the closet, where the “past becomes space”", Places, Jul 2017.
- "Mapping’s Intelligent Agents", Places, Sep 2017.
- "The Big Data of Ice, Rocks, Soils, and Sediments: Inside the material archives of climate science", Places, Nov 2017.
- "Databodies in Codespace: As the bioengineering of people and cities converges, where do we locate the public sphere?", Places, Apr 2018.
- "Community Plumbing: How the hardware store orders things, neighborhoods, and material worlds", Places, Jul 2018.
- "All Eyes on the Border: In Trump’s America, the politics of recognition are changing", Places, Sep 2018.
- "Maintenance and Care: A working guide to the repair of rust, dust, cracks, and corrupted code in our cities, our homes, and our social relations", Places, Nov 2018.
- "Local Codes: Forms of Spatial Knowledge", Public Knowledge, San Francisco: SFMOMA & San Francisco Public Library, 18 Jan 2019.
- "Networked Dream Worlds: Is 5G solving real, pressing problems or merely creating new ones?", Real Life, 8 Jul 2019.
Interviews
- Gina Conley, "Shannon Mattern", Figure/Ground Communication, Aug 2012.
- Trevor Owens, "Preservation Aesthetics: An interview with Shannon Mattern", 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.