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This magical and threatening screen effect rippled through society...It was as if nothing could be seen the same way. Everything needed to be rethought. Every field seemed to be affected by the magic screen.'
Beatriz Colomina's X-Screens: R枚ntgen Architecture describes a relationship between the development of X-rays, modern architecture and 'new forms of intimacy' in entertainment and surveillance. In Colomina's text and Niamh O' Malley's exhibition Glasshouse '[t]he floating, disappearing screen' is a means of questioning how and what we see. Colomina's account of 'X-ray architecture' highlights the radical implications of O'Malley's work for, Colomina writes, '[t]he glass house' is 'an architecture we still live in...with our countless screens monitoring endless invisible flows.' Considering O'Malley's Glasshouse in the light of X Screens: R枚ntgen Architecture confirms the importance of investigating structures of surveillance, however apparently innocuous, healthy or entertaining.
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This magical and threatening screen effect rippled through society...It was as if nothing could be seen the same way. Everything needed to be rethought. Every field seemed to be affected by the magic screen.'
Beatriz Colomina's X-Screens: R枚ntgen Architecture describes a relationship between the development of X-rays, modern architecture and 'new forms of intimacy' in entertainment and surveillance. In Colomina's text and Niamh O' Malley's exhibition Glasshouse '[t]he floating, disappearing screen' is a means of questioning how and what we see. Colomina's account of 'X-ray architecture' highlights the radical implications of O'Malley's work for, Colomina writes, '[t]he glass house' is 'an architecture we still live in...with our countless screens monitoring endless invisible flows.' Considering O'Malley's Glasshouse in the light of X Screens: R枚ntgen Architecture confirms the importance of investigating structures of surveillance, however apparently innocuous, healthy or entertaining.
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