From YouTube to Flickr, from graffiti to street art, new media are opening up the field of art to processes of “democratization†of the means of creative expression allowing more and more people –indeed, potentially everyone- to become an artist. The exhaustively discussed relationship between ‘art and power’ seems to have finally missed the conjunction ‘and’: art is in itself becoming a space of democratic experimentation in multiple ways. Art works are focusing on new micropolitical and biopolitical themes, they are inventing new forms of creativity, and are constructing new social networks. The special issue aims to address this potentially new relationship between art and democracy. Papers should revolve around the following questions:
Do the new media mark the ultimate democratization or the ultimate commercialization of art?
Are micropolitical and biopolitical art works already engaged into processes of re-imagining democracy? In which directions?
Is art becoming the space of the political per se, where new democratic forms are negotiated and dispersed through new technologies?
Essays should be approximately 1.500 words long
We also invite other types of contributions: photographs, video art, cartoons, music, short stories, poems, which will either be published in the journal or displayed in a separate public exhibition scheduled for October 2007 in Athens, Greece.
Please submit contributions in any electronic format to:
phatzopoulos AT re-public.gr
Deadline for submissions: 20 July 2007
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