Payal Arora and Filip Vermeylen got granted an application within the NIAS competition for workshops in the NIAS environment.
Payal Arora and Filip Vermeylen got granted an application within the NIAS competition for workshops in the NIAS environment. The workshop will be in November this year and will address:
The New Cultural Commons: The Art World, New Media, and a Democratic Promise
This workshop intends to explore contemporary trends on digitization in the art world and market of the twenty-first century and focuses on the visual arts as it is exhibited, discussed and traded online. Thereby, this workshop questions how and under what circumstances the internet gives rise to new and democratic forms of art product consumption and knowledge circulation, and how the specific characteristics of the digital medium, the audiences and cultural contexts contribute to this novel phenomenon. Hence, our objective is to fill an important gap in the framing of the cultural commons today. We are aiming for an interdisciplinary workshop inviting people from the fields of art history, anthropology, cultural economics, sociology of the arts, communication and media. The outcomes of this workshop should not just be theoretically relevant but also of practical use for public art institutions under tremendous pressure to be less exclusive and more economically viable.