How Democratic? New Media Art and Participation
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- ISEA2011: 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art
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Session Title:
- From New Media to Old Utopias: ‘Red’ Art in Late Capitalism?
Presentation Title:
- How Democratic? New Media Art and Participation
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Panel: From New Media to Old Utopias: ‘Red’ Art in Late Capitalism?
CRUMB, the research centre CRUMB at the University of Sunderland in the UK, has a deep interest in how the ‘behaviours’ of new media art, such as connectivity, computivity and interactivity, present opportunities and challenges for curators. Interactivity, in particular, highlights how behaviours of interaction, participation and collaboration have often been important in art, including activist art, conceptual art, and more recently, relational aesthetics. This presentation considers artworks and exhibitions including those by Hans Haacke, Chris Burden, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Les Liens Invisibles, Josh On, Pad.ma, Harrell Fletcher and Miranda July, and Heath Bunting. It suggests a critical definition of types of participation which draws on both political and network vocabularies.