Uncommon grounds : new media and critical practices in North Africa and the Middle East /: new media and critical practices in North Africa and the Middle East. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Anthony Downey.
• Editors: Downey, Anthony
• Contents: 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 -- Artists' inserts. 3rdi / Wafaa Bilal; Saudi automobile / Sarah Abu Abdallah ; Family friendly / Fayçal Baghriche ; Manazer / Ganzeer ; Untitled for several reasons / Roy Samaha -- Art's networks : a new communal model / Derya Yücel -- When the going gets tough... / Hamzamolnár -- 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 -- The magnetic remanences : voice and sound in digital art and media / Nermin Saybaşılı -- Re-examining the social impulse : politics, media and art after the Arab uprisings / Omar Kholeif -- Artists' inserts. Gazawood / Tarzan and Arab ; Chewing the data fat / Sophia Al-Maria ; Hans Haacke for Gulf Labor ; The pixelated revolution / Rabih Mroué -- 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.
• Publisher Details: London New York : I.B. Tauris
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 709.17/492700905; Art, Arab -- Middle East -- 21st century; Art, Arab -- Africa, North -- 21st century; New media art -- Middle East; New media art -- Africa, North; Social media -- Middle East; Social media -- Africa, North; Interactive art -- Middle East; Interactive art -- Africa, North; Art, Arab; Interactive art; New media art; Social media; Neue Medien; Konst och samhälle; Arabisk konst; Sociala medier; Africa, North; Middle East; Naher Osten; Nordafrika; Nordafrika; Mellanöstern
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857735935; 0857735934
• Related ISBNs: 9781784530358; 1784530352
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on print version record.
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