Here is a project you won't see on Interactive Architecture any time soon. The above image, aptly titled Blue Screen of Death was shot by Toronto photographer Sean Galbraith last November. It captured several large display screens on a downtown Toronto retail building in a rather vulnerable state. This is the side of media architecture that we don't see documented on design blogs as failures, glitches and malfunctions don't exactly reinforce the idea of building envelopes as a surface for a seamless media experience. There is something unnerving about error messages at an architectural scale - perhaps they are flickering reminders that even the city needs an occasional reboot. [via blogTO]
Chema Cobo
Marc Chagall
Chema Madoz
