HUSO2213: Public Domain: Digital Appropriation of the Urban Landscape

Public Domain: Digital Appropriation of the Urban Landscape

Intercepted transmissions from the battleground of the Post-Individual New media colony.

Curatorial Statement 

Three decades have passed since 1984. At the brink of economic collapse, Proles and Outer Party members alike gather en masse to occupy the Public space outside the Ministry Of Banking,  the central data centre - where man has receded to a custodial role. Representatives acting on behalf of Outer Party members oversee the vast array of global economic data, seas of transactions enacted by hordes of algorithms and calculated within fractions of a nanosecond, the smallest element of life within the datascape, creating the ebb and flow of tides within the ocean of wealth that is the lifeblood of the entire species.

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Public Domain explores the urban landscape as the battleground where 20th Century notions of intellectual property, individualism & identity are subverted, distorted and are ultimately rendered obsolete.

The artists we present here have been selected due to their awareness of the aforementioned concepts, either beginning their artistic life with the street as their canvas and moving into a gallery setting or at pioneering new methodology in taking their craft into the Public Domain - keeping this medium engaging and very much a contemporary practice.

Public Domain explores the relationship of the Urban landscape to the Digital landscape as contemporary society increasingly move to an existence that traverses both in simultaneity. As we walk to the station glued to our smartphones to sit down in the carriage we exist in both the digital and physical public space briefly puncuated only by the 90 seconds of no service in the city loop.

Public Domain also explores the urban landscape as an artform within itself.
Public Domain also explores the datascape as an artform within itself.

Whether painted on a building or a jpg hosted on a server, these artworks serve as footprints, watermarks, artifacts - real or the digital, left by by individuals moving within the Public Domain.