LEADER 05184nam 22005411 450 001 9910154881503321 005 20200124110340.0 010 $a0-7556-0888-7 010 $a0-85773-593-4 024 7 $a10.5040/9780755608881 035 $a(CKB)4340000000018670 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4751262 035 $a(OCoLC)1140149489 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09264807 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000018670 100 $a20200131d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 00$aUncommon grounds $enew media and critical practices in North Africa and the Middle East /$fedited by Anthony Downey 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cI.B. Tauris,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (351 pages) $cillustrations 225 0 $aIbraaz series 311 $a1-78453-035-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aPreface -- Notes on Texts and Artists' Inserts -- Introduction / Anthony Downey -- 2011 is not 1968 : An Open Letter to an Onlooker / Philip Rizk -- The Paradox of Media Activism : The Net is not a Tool, It's an Environment / Franco 'Bifo' Berardi -- Revolution Triptych / Mosireen -- For the Common Good? : Artistic Practices and Civil Society in Tunisia / Anthony Downey -- Citizens Reporting and the Fabrication of Collective Memory / Jens Maier-Rothe, Dina Kafafi and Azin Feizabadi -- Performing the Undead : Life and Death in Social Media and Contemporary Art / Nat Muller -- Wafaa Bilal : 3rdi, 2010 -- Sarah Abu Abdallah : Saudi Automobile, 2011 -- Fayc?al Baghriche : Family Friendly, 2012 -- Ganzeer : Manazer, 2011-2012 -- Roy Samaha : Untitled for Several Reasons, 2002-03 -- Art's Networks : A New Communal Model / Derya Yu?cel -- When the Going Gets Tough ... / Hamzamolna?r -- Potential Media : The Appropriation of Images, Commercial Media and Activist Practices in Egypt Today / Maxa Zoller -- A Critical Reflection on Aesthetics and Politics in the Digital Age / Dina Matar -- Digital, Aesthetic, Ephemeral : A Brief Look at Image and Narrative / Sheyma Buali -- New Media and the Spectacle of the War on Terror -- Maymanah Farhat / pp. 184-200 -- The Magnetic Remanences : Voice and Sound in Digital Art and Media / Nermin Saybas??l? -- Re-examining the Social Impulse : Politics, Media and Art after the Arab Uprisings / Omar Kholeif -- Tarzan and Arab : Gazawood, 2010 -- Sophia Al-Maria : Chewing the Data Fat, 2007 -- Hans Haacke for Gulf Labor : Saadiyat Island, 2011 -- Rabih Mroue? : The Pixelated Revolution, 2012 / -- Arab Glitch / Laura U Marks -- The Many Afterlives of Lulu / Amal Khalaf -- Cardboard Khomeini An Interrogation / Annabelle Sreberny -- The Art of the Written Word and New Media Dissemination : Across the Borders between Syria and Lebanon / Tarek Khoury -- On Revolution and Rubbish : What has Changed in Tunisia since Spring 2011 / Timo Kaabi-Linke -- Saadiyat and the Gulf Labor Boycott / Gulf Labor -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Image Credits -- Index. 330 $a"In this groundbreaking book, a range of internationally renowned and emerging academics, writers, artists, curators, activists and filmmakers critically reflect on the ways in which visual culture has appropriated and developed new media across North Africa and the Middle East. Examining the opportunities presented by the real-time generation of new, relatively unregulated content online, Uncommon Grounds evaluates the prominent role that new media has come to play in artistic practices - and social movements - in the Arab world today. Analysing alternative forms of creating, broadcasting, publishing, distributing and consuming digital images, this book also enquires into a broader global concern: does new media offer a 'democratisation' of - and a productive engagement with - visual culture, or merely capitalise upon the effect of immediacy at the expense of depth?Featuring full-colour artists' inserts, this is the first book to extensively explore the degree to which the grassroots popularity of Twitter and Facebook has been co-opted into mainstream media, institutional and curatorial characterisations of 'revolution' - and whether artists should be wary of perpetuating the rhetoric and spectacle surrounding political events. In the process, Uncommon Grounds reveals how contemporary art practices actively negotiate present-day notions of community-based activism, artistic agency and political engagement."--Bloomsbury Publishing. 606 $aNew media art$zAfrica, North 606 $aNew media art$zMiddle East 606 $aSocial media$zAfrica, North 606 $aSocial media$zMiddle East 606 $aHistory of art / art & design styles$2BIC 615 0$aNew media art 615 0$aNew media art 615 0$aSocial media 615 0$aSocial media 615 7$aHistory of art / art & design styles. 676 $a302.2310956 702 $aDowney$b Anthony 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154881503321 996 $aUncommon grounds$92548070 997 $aUNINA