Featuring full-colour artists' inserts, this is the first book to extensively explore the degree to which the grassroots popularity of Twitter and Facebook has been co-opted into mainstream media, institutional and curatorial characterisations of 'revolution' - and whether artists should be wary of perpetuating the rhetoric and spectacle surrounding political events. In the process, Uncommon Grounds reveals how contemporary art practices actively negotiate present-day notions of community-based activism, artistic agency and political engagement.' - from back cover.
Includes biographies of contributors, and an index.
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Onsite
English
West Asia,  technology,  social media,  visual culture,  Arab World
2014
359
9781784530358
1
anthology
Introduction - Anthony DOWNEY
2011 is not 1968: An Open Letter to an Onlooker - Philip RIZK
The Paradox of Media Activism: The Net is not a Tool, It's an Environment - Franco BERARDI
Revolution Triptych - Mosireen
For the Common Good? Artistic Practices and Civil Society in Tunisia - Anthony DOWNEY
Citizens Reporting and the Fabrication of Collective Memory - Jens MAIER-ROTHE, Dina KAFAFI, Azin FEIZABADI
Performing the Undead: Life and Death in Social Media and Contemporary Art - Nat MULLER
Artists' Inserts
Art's Networks: A New Communal Model - Derya YUCEL
When the Going Gets Tough... - Hamzamolnar
Potential Media: The Appropriation of Images, Commercial Media and Activist Practices in Egypt Today - Maxa ZOLLER
A Critical Reflection on Aesthetics and Politics in the Digital Age - Dina MATAR
Digital, Aesthetic, Ephemeral: A Brief Look at Image and Narrative - Sheyma BUALI
New Media and the Spectacle of the War on Terror - Maymanah FARHAT
The Magnetic Remanences: Voice and Sound in Digital Art and Media - Nermin SAYBASILI
Re-examining the Social Impulse: Politics, Media and Art after the Arab Uprisings - Omar KHOLEIF
Artists' Inserts
Arab Glitch - Laura U. MARKS
The Many Afterlives of Lulu - Amal KHALAF
Cardboard Khomeini: An Interrogation - Annabelle SREBERNY
The Art of the Written Word and New media Dissemination: Across the Border between Syria and Lebanon - Tarek KHOURY
On Revolution and Rubbish: What has Changed in Tunisia since Spring 2011 - Timo KAABI-LINKE
Saadiyat and the Gulf Labor Boycott - Gulf Labor
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