What Urban Media Art Can Do Why When Where and How?
- Submitting institution
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Liverpool John Moores University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32MW3
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- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Avedition Gmbh,Csi
- ISBN
- 9783899862553
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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3
- Research group(s)
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4 - Experimental Technologies Lab
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This chapter is in the book, co-edited by the author, 'What Urban Media Art Can Do - Why When Where and How' describing research and curation undertaken by the EU project Connecting Cities Network. The author led the co-design process within which the curatorial team developed a new understanding of a form of curation based on translocal display of art works in multiple cities around Europe and beyond. We have found identical artworks are received very differently depending, not just on the geographic and cultural factors, but on the type and depth of context creation at different localities. Context can involve many things including the programme and engagement activities of the host institution, the locality of the installation, the involvement and agency given to the local community. For example, projects taking place in the same city, at the very centre and few blocks further out in the same city (Helsinki) had different social contexts, and different level of participation of passers-by dependant on the local city dynamics. Networked culture brings an extra dimension to this process, so the projects don’t fall as dropped sculpture into an ever-new contexts but bring and merge different cultural contexts with each other. Enabling an actual exchange between communities remotely and in real time. Collaborators in the chapter are influential new media art curators at leading new media art centers in Europe: Yannick Antoine (iMAL Brussels), Ana Botella (FACT Liverpool), Nerea Calvillo (Medialab Prado Madrid), Diana Civle (Riga2014), Darko Fritz (MSU Zagreb), Jasmin Grimm (Public Art Lab Berlin), Céline Jouenne (Videospread Marseille), Katharina Meissner (MUTEK Montréal), Susa Pop (Public Art Lab Berlin), Mike Stubbs (FACT Liverpool), Minna Tarkka (m-cult Helsinki), Gernot Tscherteu (Media-Architecture Institute Vienna). This curatorial model, artworks and book describe the state-of-the-art of urban media at a European and Global level.
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- Non-English
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