Interfaces and intentionalities : adjacent practices of urban media arts in Singapore
This paper explores how urban media arts transform Singapore’s public spaces into an urban interface – one that allows people to discover different devices and mediators of everyday experience, power infrastructures and space. Public spaces are also inherently cultural devices and mediators but th...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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2021
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| Online Access: | https://www.leoalmanac.org/interfaces-and-intentionalities-adjacent-practices-of-urban-media-arts-in-singapore-kristy-h-a-kang/ https://hdl.handle.net/10356/147808 |
| Summary: | This paper explores how urban media arts transform Singapore’s public spaces
into an urban interface – one that allows people to discover different devices and mediators of everyday experience, power infrastructures and space.
Public spaces are also inherently cultural devices and mediators but they are
latent, waiting for activation. They are the hard, infrastructure of the city. What
urban media art does is activate public spaces, transforming them into an
interface for discovering different conceptions and critiques of ‘place’ or the soft,
socio-cultural layers of the city. This paper examines how Singapore’s public
spaces are transformed into sites for discovering an understanding of ‘place’ –
one of belonging or alienation. It looks at how of{cial and unof{cial urban media
art is used to transform public space into different narratives of belonging by
examining the work of independent street artist Samantha Lo and the Urban
Redevelopment Authority’s iLight Festival and related projects. Each transforms
public space into an interface for understanding the relationship between the
(social and cultural) soft city and the (infrastructural) hard city. |
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