Uncommon Grounds: New Media and Critical Practices in North Africa and the Middle East

'In this groundbreaking book, a range of internationally renowned and emerging academics, writers, artists, curators, activists and filmmakers critically reflect on the ways in which visual culture has appropriated and developed new media across North Africa and the Middle East. Examining the opportunities presented by the real-time generation of new, relatively unregulated content online, Uncommon Grounds evaluates the prominent role that new media has come to play in artistic practices - and social movements - in the Arab world today. Analysing alternative forms of creating, broadcasting, publishing, distributing and consuming digital images, this book also enquires into a broader global concern: does new media offer a 'democratisation' of - and a productive engagement with - visual culture, or merely capitalise upon the effect of immediacy at the expense of depth?
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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Access level

Onsite

publisher

I.B. Tauris (London, United Kingdom)

editor

Anthony DOWNEY

Location code

REF.DOA3

Language

English

Keywords

West Asia, technology, social media, visual culture, Arab World

Publication/Creation date

2014

No of pages

359

ISBN / ISSN

9781784530358

No of copies

Content type

anthology

Chapter headings

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

Uncommon Grounds: New Media and Critical Practices in North Africa and the Middle East

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