The growing ubiquity of images, networks, computational strategies, interfaces as a conceptual framework and reality embedded in technological advances, which have the potential to transform human interaction with and perspectives on the world is the focus of this axis and articulated through the following three themes:

Networks and Archives (Migration, Assemblages, Open Source);
Transcultural Circulation;
Mediated Public Image

Researchers predominantly identified with the first theme are concerned with the role of space and place in networked cultures and the roles that (digitized) archives play in documenting, organizing and transporting history and knowledge (Foucault 1969), how archives act to produce difference, and the ways they link multiple actors/actants together so that the actions of one effect the actions of others. Researchers associated with the second theme

examine how images, creative and cultural practices move transculturally, being both bound to particular places and spaces while, at the same time, circulating through global systems of production and exchange made possible by transcontinental and transcultural mobility (e.g., the bodily and technological affects produced by Japanese popular cultural outputs such as manga and the impact of new media produced by and for First Nations in Québec, Canada and elsewhere). Researchers focused on the third theme investigate theories of media in public space and new experimental practices (dramaturgies of interaction, new technologies such as projection, sensing, etc.) in order to re-invigorate and transform the city while examining the expanding role that images and technological interactions play in urban public spaces across the globe.