For the publication of issue #65 the digital journal InterArtive will publish a special issue dedicated to diverse aspects of the current discussion about Culture and Urban Space. We invite theorists, critics, curators and artists who work on the subject to participate.
As a substrate for artistic and political action, the city is a place with established hierarchies in regard to the distribution of space, visibility and networks. Economical centres, cultural networks and points of architectural and historical interest hold their already structured symbolic values, that constitute the façade of the city. In its shadow remain the 'non-places': train stations, chain stores, massive housing blocks, crumbling walls and sidewalks, decadent neighbourhoods, noisy highways. Somewhere in between, we have the invisible body of information, oversaturating the air, waiting to be processed and displayed through the appropriate device; a virtual realm of online communication and hybrid spaces of augmented reality that co-exist with the physical landmarks. The connective tissue in this heterogeneous body is the people, who (re)act within this context, supporting the existing structures or hacking them and transforming them, so as to create new nodes of meaning in space.
Which dynamics emerge within the urban space? How do they affect cultural production? What is the relation between political movements (online and on the streets) and artistic expression? What is the role of globalization within a political and artistic context? How are the existing hierarchies challenged by crisis and protest?
This call seeks to reflect on the political and cultural transformations that take place within the city, to highlight the links between the urban space and artistic production and to think about the concept of art and the city, within a global context.
For the publication of issue #65 the digital journal InterArtive will publish a special issue dedicated to diverse aspects of the current discussion about Culture and Urban Space. We invite theorists, critics, curators and artists who work on the subject to participate.
As a substrate for artistic and political action, the city is a place with established hierarchies in regard to the distribution of space, visibility and networks. Economical centres, cultural networks and points of architectural and historical interest hold their already structured symbolic values, that constitute the façade of the city. In its shadow remain the 'non-places': train stations, chain stores, massive housing blocks, crumbling walls and sidewalks, decadent neighbourhoods, noisy highways. Somewhere in between, we have the invisible body of information, oversaturating the air, waiting to be processed and displayed through the appropriate device; a virtual realm of online communication and hybrid spaces of augmented reality that co-exist with the physical landmarks. The connective tissue in this heterogeneous body is the people, who (re)act within this context, supporting the existing structures or hacking them and transforming them, so as to create new nodes of meaning in space.
Which dynamics emerge within the urban space? How do they affect cultural production? What is the relation between political movements (online and on the streets) and artistic expression? What is the role of globalization within a political and artistic context? How are the existing hierarchies challenged by crisis and protest?
This call seeks to reflect on the political and cultural transformations that take place within the city, to highlight the links between the urban space and artistic production and to think about the concept of art and the city, within a global context.
For the publication of issue #65 the digital journal InterArtive will publish a special issue dedicated to diverse aspects of the current discussion about Culture and Urban Space. We invite theorists, critics, curators and artists who work on the subject to participate.
As a substrate for artistic and political action, the city is a place with established hierarchies in regard to the distribution of space, visibility and networks. Economical centres, cultural networks and points of architectural and historical interest hold their already structured symbolic values, that constitute the façade of the city. In its shadow remain the 'non-places': train stations, chain stores, massive housing blocks, crumbling walls and sidewalks, decadent neighbourhoods, noisy highways. Somewhere in between, we have the invisible body of information, oversaturating the air, waiting to be processed and displayed through the appropriate device; a virtual realm of online communication and hybrid spaces of augmented reality that co-exist with the physical landmarks. The connective tissue in this heterogeneous body is the people, who (re)act within this context, supporting the existing structures or hacking them and transforming them, so as to create new nodes of meaning in space.
Which dynamics emerge within the urban space? How do they affect cultural production? What is the relation between political movements (online and on the streets) and artistic expression? What is the role of globalization within a political and artistic context? How are the existing hierarchies challenged by crisis and protest?
This call seeks to reflect on the political and cultural transformations that take place within the city, to highlight the links between the urban space and artistic production and to think about the concept of art and the city, within a global context.
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