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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| author | Kang, Kristy H. A. |
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| description | 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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| spelling | ntu-10356/1478082021-04-12T02:11:08Z Interfaces and intentionalities : adjacent practices of urban media arts in Singapore Kang, Kristy H. A. School of Art, Design and Media Visual arts and music::Media Singapore Urban Media Art 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. 2021-04-12T02:08:29Z 2021-04-12T02:08:29Z 2019 Journal Article Kang, K. H. A. (2019). Interfaces and intentionalities : adjacent practices of urban media arts in Singapore. Leonardo Electronic Almanac, 22(4). 1071-4391 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 4 22 en Leonardo Electronic Almanac © 2019 International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (ISAST). All rights reserved. |
| spellingShingle | Visual arts and music::Media Singapore Urban Media Art Kang, Kristy H. A. Interfaces and intentionalities : adjacent practices of urban media arts in Singapore |
| title | Interfaces and intentionalities : adjacent practices of urban media arts in Singapore |
| title_full | Interfaces and intentionalities : adjacent practices of urban media arts in Singapore |
| title_fullStr | Interfaces and intentionalities : adjacent practices of urban media arts in Singapore |
| title_full_unstemmed | Interfaces and intentionalities : adjacent practices of urban media arts in Singapore |
| title_short | Interfaces and intentionalities : adjacent practices of urban media arts in Singapore |
| title_sort | interfaces and intentionalities adjacent practices of urban media arts in singapore |
| topic | Visual arts and music::Media Singapore Urban Media Art |
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