“Don’t Call It Art! On Artistic Strategies and Political Implications of Media Art in Public Space” presented by Klein

Symposium:

• ISEA2010: 16th International Symposium on Electronic Art

• Public Interventions

• Don’t Call It Art! On Artistic Strategies and Political Implications of Media Art in Public Space

• Georg Klein

Venue(s):

• Volkshochschule (VHS Dortmund), Dortmund, Germany

• Society of Molecules was orchestrated by the SenseLab as an emergent and internationally distributed micropolitical event for research-creation carried out in several countries during the first week of May, 2009. This paper reports from the Montréal-based molecule named the Lack of Information Kiosk. It aimed at bringing attention to urban mobilizations on the frontierland between a traditional working-class district (Parc Extension) bordering a bourgeois neighborhood (Outrement) in the northern part of the city. Université de Montréal has bought the 56.0000 m2 space between these two districts to develop their future campus literally closing off access from Parc Extension. The quotidian appropriations of this space (by walkers, dog owners, homeless) confront the multiple layers of a space that suffers from a lack of information. The focus was on this ever-present lack of information in both governmental and everyday dialogues about the future of the physical and social spaces.

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