“Transcultural Electronic Negotiations: The Redefinition of Public Art across Cultures and Media” presented by Aceti
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- Hybrid Public Spaces
Presentation Title:
- Transcultural Electronic Negotiations: The Redefinition of Public Art across Cultures and Media
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Abstract:
The paper will discuss how contemporary artistic engagements through technological tools in the realm of transcultural public art – particularly when based on contemporary media technologies – are forms strictly depending on and intertwined to the genius loci and the cultural context of the place to which the artworks refers.
Technology – when conceived and used as an aesthetic form of electronic transcultural negotiation – is not the only defining element of the artwork or the most important one. An artwork – even if technologically based – when moved from its original cultural context, is eradicated from and becomes unrelated to the place of origin. The artwork and its aesthetic are reduced to a reflection and transformed in the expression of an aesthetic artistic choice – explicable only within the framework of the chosen technological medium – that by globalizing the context purges any cultural specificity.
