Uncommon grounds : new media and critical practices in North Africa and the Middle East / edited by Anthony Downey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Downey, Anthony, editor.

Series:

Ibraaz series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New media art--Africa, North.

New media art--Middle East.

Social media--Africa, North.

Social media--Middle East.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (351 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2014.

Summary:

"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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Preface

Notes on Texts and Artists' Inserts

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 'Bifo' 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 and Azin Feizabadi

Performing the Undead : Life and Death in Social Media and Contemporary Art / Nat Muller

Wafaa Bilal : 3rdi, 2010

Sarah Abu Abdallah : Saudi Automobile, 2011

Fayçal Baghriche : Family Friendly, 2012

Ganzeer : Manazer, 2011-2012

Roy Samaha : Untitled for Several Reasons, 2002-03

Art's Networks : A New Communal Model / Derya Yücel

When the Going Gets Tough ... / Hamzamolnár

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 / pp. 184-200

The Magnetic Remanences : Voice and Sound in Digital Art and Media / Nermin Saybaşılı

Re-examining the Social Impulse : Politics, Media and Art after the Arab Uprisings / Omar Kholeif

Tarzan and Arab : Gazawood, 2010

Sophia Al-Maria : Chewing the Data Fat, 2007

Hans Haacke for Gulf Labor : Saadiyat Island, 2011

Rabih Mroué : The Pixelated Revolution, 2012 /

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 Borders 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

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Image Credits

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780857724267

0857724266

9780755608881

0755608887

9780857735935

0857735934

OCLC:

1140149489