ABSTRACT

As social, locative, and mobile media render the intimate public and the public intimate, this volume interrogates how this phenomenon impacts art practice and politics. Contributors bring together the worlds of art and media culture to rethink their intersections in light of participatory social media. By focusing upon the Asia-Pacific region, they seek to examine how regionalism and locality affect global circuits of culture. The book also offers a set of theoretical frameworks and methodological paradigms for thinking about contemporary art practice more generally.

chapter 1|20 pages

Intimate Publics

The Place of Art and Media Cultures in the Asia-Pacific Region

part I|68 pages

Reconceptualizing the Region

chapter 3|12 pages

Dots in the Domain

The Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art

chapter 4|10 pages

Beyond Institutional Thinking

chapter 5|14 pages

Making Do

The Making of the Art and Digital Media in Southeast Asia

chapter 6|16 pages

On Platform Seoul

Models beyond the Biennale

part II|69 pages

When Art and New Media Collide

chapter 7|14 pages

Red Tape and Digital Talismans

Shaping Knowledge beneath Surveillance

chapter 8|18 pages

Screen Ecologies

A Discussion of Art, Screen Cultures, and the Environment in the Region

chapter 10|12 pages

Regional Standardization

MPEG and Intercultural Transmission

chapter 11|12 pages

PlayStations

On Being Curated and Other Geo-Ethnographies

part III|83 pages

Vernacular, Media Practice, and Social Politics

chapter 13|17 pages

Mediating the Metropolis

New Media Art as a Laboratory for Urban Ecology in Indonesia

chapter 14|13 pages

The Virtual Extimacies of Cao Fei

chapter 15|11 pages

The Conjugations of Remix

Or, as Kurt Vonnegut Might Say, Being Spastic in Time

chapter 17|11 pages

Conclusion: Beyond the Intimate?

The Place of the Public in the Region