Public Art

"Remember Me" public art project paper

by Nathanael Bassett

"Forgotten Memorials: The American Cemeteries in France from World War II"

by Kate C. Lemay

dissertation, to be released in 2014

Public Art, Political Space: The Rearticulation of Power in Postrevolutionary Tunisia

by Michael Caster

Interview with Leila Nadir and Cary Peppermint of Ecoarttech

by Leila C. Nadir

Furtherfield.org Interview with Sophia Kosmaoglou - 20/04/2012

Refusing to regard technology merely as a tool, Ecoarttech expand the uses of mobile technology and digital networks... more Refusing to regard technology merely as a tool, Ecoarttech expand the uses of mobile technology and digital networks revealing them to be fundamental components of the way we experience our environment. Their most recent work Indeterminate Hikes + (IH +) is a phone app that maps a series of trails through the city. IH + can be accessed globally, or wherever users have access to Google Maps on their mobile phones. After identifying the users’ location, IH + generates a route along random “Scenic Vistas" within urban spaces. Users are directed to perform a series of tasks along the trail and provide feedback in the form of snapshots generating an ongoing, open-ended dialogue. But the experience of their work is primarily an encounter with technology. Since 2005, Leila Nadir and Cary Peppermint of Ecoarttech have been engaged in an artistic exploration of environmental sustainability and convergent media. By drawing our attention to the increasing replacement or mediation of physical experiences by technology, Ecoarttech challenge the widely reproduced distinction between nature and culture. They present their work in the form of videos, digital networks, blogs, performance and installations. Their early video-based work (Wilderness Trouble and Frontier Mythology) plays out a performative and ironic encounter with the natural environment as a historically constructed concept. In the summer of 2005 Ecoarttech made A Series of Practical Performances in the Wilderness (2005) a database networked performance in QuickTime (DVD and Podcast).

Mobile Public Art, Public Art Review

by Martha Ladly

Public Art Review, Issue 41, Fall/Winter 2009

Mobile art is a growing phenomenon, attracting new artists who see the potential for engaging new audiences, in both... more Mobile art is a growing phenomenon, attracting new artists who see the potential for engaging new audiences, in both urban and remote public environments. Mobile artworks are potentially ubiquitous and playful, possible and everywhere ¬– all that is required to participate is your presence in a particular public place, your intention to investigate or play, and a mobile device. The mobile devices (usually mobile phones and portable digital assistants) act as interfaces to the artworks, but portable CD players and computers, bicycles and cars, buildings, parks, trails, forests, and even mountains, have all been construed as media elements and interfaces for mobile public art.

Andrew Sneddon, I dont know what Im looking for but I'll know it when i see it

by Andrew Sneddon

Leaf Map: Environmental Art Museum Program

by Stacey Marie Garcia

Tracing the City: Exploring the Private Experience of Public Art through Art and Anthropology

by Martha Radice

Co-authored with Kim Morgan and Solomon Nagler. Presented at ISEA2011, Istanbul.

What happens when the private experience of art is disrupted or reframed by the chance encounters and events of urban... more What happens when the private experience of art is disrupted or reframed by the chance encounters and events of urban public life? Conversely, what happens when modes of production of art are opened up for the public to intervene in artistic creation? We draw on Lefebvre’s sociospatial theories to present the framework for our interdisciplinary research-creation project, and use it to interpret an art installation on a public city bus route.

Tracing the City: Exploring the Private Experience of Public Art through Art and Anthropology

by Martha Radice

Co-authored with Kim Morgan and Solomon Nagler. Presented at ISEA2011, Istanbul.

What happens when the private experience of art is disrupted or reframed by the chance encounters and events of urban... more What happens when the private experience of art is disrupted or reframed by the chance encounters and events of urban public life? Conversely, what happens when modes of production of art are opened up for the public to intervene in artistic creation? We draw on Lefebvre’s sociospatial theories to present the framework for our interdisciplinary research-creation project, and use it to interpret an art installation on a public city bus route.

The politics of cultural programming in public spaces

by Victoria Watts

O Aparelhado no Jardim: Uma proposta narrativa de antimonumento na UFSM (anais do II Seminário Internacional de Arte Pública na América Latina - GEAP Latinoamerica / UFES)

by Fábio Purper Machado

Escrito por Fábio Purper Machado, com orientação de José Francisco Flores Goulart. In: II° Seminario Internacional sobre Arte Público en Latinoamérica, 2011, Vitória: GEAP Latinoamérica, UFES. Anais... Arte Público y espacios políticos: interacciones y fracturas en las ciudades latinoamericanas. Belo Horizonte: C/Arte, 2011. v.2. p.396 - 406. ISBN 978-85-7654-118-9.
O link 4shared abaixo é para o livro II inteiro dos anais do evento.
Mais informações em http://artepublica2011.blogspot.com.br

Este texto, dentro da temática Arte e intervenções em espaços extra-urbanos na América Latina, trata de uma pesquisa... more Este texto, dentro da temática Arte e intervenções em espaços extra-urbanos na América Latina, trata de uma pesquisa em escultura onde se enfatizam a materialidade da argila no gesto do modelado, as aproximações entre a figuração atingida e a linguagem das histórias em quadrinhos poético-filosóficas (Santos Neto, 2009), suas possibilidades alegóricas como problematização de questões sociais e valores estéticos, e, enfim, sua culminância num espaço público: o projeto “O Sujeito Aparelhado” no jardim de esculturas do Centro de Educação do campus da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, como trabalho de graduação do autor no Bacharelado em Artes Visuais da instituição, aliado a um projeto de revitalização deste espaço, empreendido pelo prof. Ms. José Francisco Flores Goulart. São abordadas aqui idéias, influências e leituras que traçam um fio condutor para a compreensão da trajetória desta pesquisa e de questões que envolvem seu momento atual, entre elas o dilema entre o monumento/antimonumento público e os interesses do poder (Alves, 2005), e as acumulações, apropriações e disseminações imagéticas da cibercultura (Couchot, 2003), tendo esta aproximação sido iniciada em estudos empreendidos pelo autor na Licenciatura em Artes Visuais na USFM. Reflete-se nesta pesquisa artística uma relação com o riso do escárnio, e também com aquele de quando nos deparamos com o abismo...

This text, about art and interventions in extra-urban spaces in Latin America, deals about a sculpture research where clay's materiality and modeling gesture are emphasized, about the proximities between its figures and poetic-philosophic comics' language (Santos Neto, 2009), about their possibilities of questioning social issues and ethical values, and their peak at a public space: the sculpture "Le Sujet Appareillé", projected to the Education Center (UFSM Campus) sculpture garden, as the author's graduation job on Visual Arts Bachelors Degree at the same institution, and allied to the project of revitalization of the same space, emprehended by Prof. Ms. José Francisco Flores Goulart.
Some ideas, influences and readings which trace a conductive line to the comprehension of this research path are brought, along with questions which involve its current moment, amongst them the dilemma between public monument/antimonument and ideological interests (Alves, 2005), and the accumulations, appropriations and imagetic disseminations of cyberculture (Couchot, 2003), on an approach done by the author at Visual Arts Bachelor's Degree on Education at UFSM. On this artistic research it is reflected a relation with a jeering laughter, and also the laugh of when we face the abyss...

Halifax’s Nocturne and the spectacle of neoliberal civics

by Max Haiven

Forthcoming in the journal Public, no.45, 2012.

Halifax’s Nocturne: Art at Night has been met with almost universal enthusiasm from both the city’s arts community as... more Halifax’s Nocturne: Art at Night has been met with almost universal enthusiasm from both the city’s arts community as well as local political and business elites. This essay argues that, while there is much laudable about civic spectacles like Nocturne, and while many of the works and performances they feature are reflexive and critical, they risk participating in (and promoting) what I term “neoliberal civics.” Ironically, these public events take place and have resonance only within a cultural, social and political landscape already dramatically privatized, one where the meaning of “creativity” has become a battleground.

In Place-spective

by Nedine Kachornnamsong

Proceeding of ISEA 2008, The 14th International Symposium on Electronic Art. ISBN: 978-981-08-0768-9

Although most terms of place associates to space, the concept of place in the online communication implicates with... more Although most terms of place associates to space, the concept of place in the online communication implicates with social interaction rather than merely physical setting. The interrelations between place and persons are mutual as a place cannot exist without people, while the interaction between people makes it possible to form a place without space. This spaceless notion of  place will be discussed further in terms of online social interaction.

The outcome of this research was implemented in an installation project atCopenhagen Airport, Denmark. With an intention to promote social interaction among passengers, the installation aimed to re-establish the sense of place by facilitating anindirect communication, where the people could share their dreams with the others.

RIP: Memorial Wall Art

by Joseph Sciorra

R.I.P: Memorial Wall Art. (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1994; reprinted by Thames and Hudson, 2002), (with Martha Cooper). Also published by Thames and Hudson in Great Britain as R.I.P.: New York Spraycan Memorials and in France as R.I.P N.Y.C: Bombages in Memoriam a New York City.

Art and the Urban Plaza: From Landscape to Environment

by Ruth Fazakerley

R Fazakerley, 'Art and the urban plaza: from landscape to environment', in Andrea Gaynor, Elizabeth Gralton, Jenny Gregory & Sarah McQuade (eds) Urban Transformations: Booms, Busts and other Catastrophes. Proceedings of the 11th Australasian Urban History/Planning History Conference (Crawley: The University of Western Australia, 2012), 97-113

The design of the Adelaide Festival Centre Southern Plaza (1973-1977) was conceived as an ‘environment’, neither... more The design of the Adelaide Festival Centre Southern Plaza (1973-1977) was conceived as an ‘environment’, neither sculpture nor architecture but the integration of art, architecture, and surroundings. This example offers some insights into shifting and situated understandings of the term environment, and its impact on relationships between art and urban design in the creation of Australian urban spaces. Throughout the ‘environmental revolution’ of the 1960s and 70s, a conjunction of concepts and technologies around the term environment can be seen across diverse fields – associated in the visual and new media arts with the emergence of practices of environmental, integrated and site specific art. The example of the Plaza draws attention to the altered relations these new practices proposed between art, the city and its inhabitants, and in particular their claims for the centrality of active experience. Environmental artwork claimed to create opportunities for people to become conscious of and to interact with each other and their surroundings and, unlike the autonomous sculptural object, to blur the boundaries between authorship and reception (of art and urban space), as well as between art and everyday objects, bodies, and spaces.

Publications by Anna P. Sokolina

by Anna Sokolina

Men with Flags: Form, Function, and Political Intention in the United States Marines Corps Memorial and the September 11 Firefighters' Memorial

by Ian Shin

Kunst, öffentlicher Raum, Identität: Mocmoc, das ungeliebte Denkmal

by Johannes M. Hedinger

Á procura do centro: Marvila

by Cristovao Pereira

Performative monuments: public art, commemoration, and history in postwar Europe

by Mechtild Widrich