Digital Public arts
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Digital Public Art is a nascent field of public art practice resulting from a combination of Public art
and Digital art
. Like traditional public artworks they differ from those found in galleries and museums in that they takes place in public and it has been claimed, adhere to the following categories:
Whilst digital public artworks and traditional public artworks may make use of new technologies in their creation and display, what marks digital public artworks as distinct is a technological ability to explicitly interact with audiences. Examples might include works which respond to presence - as can be seen in Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
work UnderScan (2005), which tended towards formal relations between audience and work and online works, such as those enabled through Social networks
. An example of this might be YouTube's Life in a Day project which asked the public to submit video clips of their day, which was then edited into a film.
These public art methodologies differ to digital community art works, (which have also been termed Socially Engaged New Media Art (SENMA)
) in terms of how they establish relationships with audience, site and outcome. In community based digital artworks these issues evolve via a dialogical process rather than as an explicit course of action, working or set of relationships (for example between artwork, artist and audience).
Public art
The term public art properly refers to works of art in any media that have been planned and executed with the specific intention of being sited or staged in the physical public domain, usually outside and accessible to all...
and Digital art
Digital art
Digital art is a general term for a range of artistic works and practices that use digital technology as an essential part of the creative and/or presentation process...
. Like traditional public artworks they differ from those found in galleries and museums in that they takes place in public and it has been claimed, adhere to the following categories:
- In a place accessible or visible to the public: in public
- Concerned with or affecting the community or individuals: public interest
- Maintained for or used by the community or individuals: public place
- Paid for by the public: publicly funded
Whilst digital public artworks and traditional public artworks may make use of new technologies in their creation and display, what marks digital public artworks as distinct is a technological ability to explicitly interact with audiences. Examples might include works which respond to presence - as can be seen in Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is a Mexican-Canadian electronic artist who works with ideas from architecture, technological theater and performance. He holds a Bachelors of Science in Physical Chemistry from Concordia University in Montreal...
work UnderScan (2005), which tended towards formal relations between audience and work and online works, such as those enabled through Social networks
Social network
A social network is a social structure made up of individuals called "nodes", which are tied by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as friendship, kinship, common interest, financial exchange, dislike, sexual relationships, or relationships of beliefs, knowledge or prestige.Social...
. An example of this might be YouTube's Life in a Day project which asked the public to submit video clips of their day, which was then edited into a film.
These public art methodologies differ to digital community art works, (which have also been termed Socially Engaged New Media Art (SENMA)
) in terms of how they establish relationships with audience, site and outcome. In community based digital artworks these issues evolve via a dialogical process rather than as an explicit course of action, working or set of relationships (for example between artwork, artist and audience).