The increasing ubiquity of networks, mobile computing devices, locative services, urban screens, reactive skins, smart infrastructure, and a wide array of other technology-supported capabilities affect, for better and for worse, one of the ages-old ideals of public art: to creatively generate discourse in the public sphere about issues that matter to individuals and communities.
This talk will look at a number of projects around the world, including ones commissioned for the 01SJ Biennial, which use these capabilities to overlay virtual and physical space to map a new and contested hybrid public sphere, the ultimate control of which is not yet clear.
STEVE DIETZ (USA, curator, writer and lecturer)
special guest: Michelle Teran