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An Audio-Visual Database for Post-war Architecture and the City in Greece

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This paper reconsiders the notion of the archive in the context of a multimedia database for the city. It investigates the aesthetic and ideological constitution of the archive as a list, examines the nature of the urban historical evidence that is being transcribed into the conceptual setting of the database and, finally, experiments with the database as a storytelling mechanism that allows for multiple narrations about the city. A pilot, proof-of-concept interactive production experiments with an audiovisual database, initially comprising Greek newsreels and documentaries. This web-based prototype functions as the touchstone against which our main research questions are raised. The conceptual and production framework, outlined in this paper, represents work in progress conducted at the Laboratory of Environmental Communication and Audiovisual Documentation (LECAD) of the Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly. The project is generously funded by the Research Committee of the University of Thessaly and Thales Research Support Program.

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  1. Laboratory of Environmental Communication & Audiovisual Documentation (LECAD), Department of Architecture, School of Engineering, University of Thessaly, Pedion Areos, 38334, Volos, Greece

    Stavros Alifragkis & George Papakonstantinou

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  1. Technological Educational Institute of Epirus, Kostakioi, 47100, Arta, Greece

    Constantinos T. Angelis

  2. University of Ioannina, 45110, Ioannina, Greece

    Dimitrios Fotiadis  & Alexandros T. Tzallas  & 

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Alifragkis, S., Papakonstantinou, G. (2013). An Audio-Visual Database for Post-war Architecture and the City in Greece. In: Angelis, C.T., Fotiadis, D., Tzallas, A.T. (eds) Ambient Media and Systems. AMBI-SYS 2013. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 118. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04102-5_1

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