Two lectures sketch the artistic approach to public space during passed decades. (In English)
Johan Pas – Occupied City. Artistic actions in urban space: the prehistory
Public urban space can be considered a battlefield of conflicting images and meanings. Artists have been using this aspect of the modern metropolis since the years of the early avant-garde. However, the street only became a real artistic platform in the sixties and seventies of the 20th century. Art historian Johan Pas will sketch an outline of the ways visual artists have been dealing with the urban fabric as a context for actions and interventions from the early 1960’s on. The focus will be on American and European artists associated with movements as happening, body art; conceptual art and performance. Their legacy can be read as the prehistory of contemporary urban art guerrilla.
Alessandro Ludovico – Hacking the public, regaining the commons
Would it be true that virtual space has been created to illude people to still have freedom while being almost completely controlled in physical reality? Artists, and especially inspired digital artists, have historically shown a different virtual reality, unveiling how it can manipulate or being manipulated by the individual at will, especially when clashing in what we still consider the “public space”. Playful, narrative, sarcastic or diabolical strategies have been conceived and applied to show that once you understand technologies and use them, the world around you is never the same again.
- Tags
- beeldende kunst
- electrified
- flashmob
- interventie
- mediakunst
- publieke ruimte
- stad
- Artists
- Alessandro Ludovico
Johan Pas is Art Historian and lectures at the Royal Academy of Arts Antwerp. He also works as a curator and critic.
Alessandro Ludovico (IT) is a media critic and chief editor of the Neural magazine from 1993. He is the author of several essays on digital culture, and he co-edited the ‘Mag.Net Reader’ book series. He’s one of the founding contributors of the Nettime community, one of the founders of the Mag.Net (Electronic Cultural Publishers) organization. He teaches at the Academy of Art in Carrara and Bari and has been a research fellow at the Willem de Kooning Academy. He also served as an advisor for the Documenta 12’s Magazine Project. With P.Cirio and Ubermorgen he developed ‘Google Will Eat Itself’ (Honorary Mention Prix Ars Electronica 2005, Rhizome Commission 2005, nomination Prix Transmediale 2006) and ‘Amazon Noir’ (1st prize Stuttgarter Filmwinter 2007, Honorary Mention Share Prize 2007, 2nd prize Transmediale08) art projects.
In collaboration with S.M.A.K.
With support from BAM, the Flemish institute for visual, audiovisual and media art that invited Alessandro Ludovico to a a visitors programme for foreign art professionals.
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Persartikel: Kunstenaars hacken Gent
by Sarah Theerlynck (De Morgen, 2 april 2010)
