Installation Art
A special issue of Arts (ISSN 2076-0752). This special issue belongs to the section "Visual Arts".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2014)
Special Issue Editor
Interests: physical computing in the creative arts and its potential future forms; music; performance and installation art
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Installation Art is often evident by example and understood as a singularity but resistant to comparative analysis and categorization through anything but generalities. Given its diversity of interpretation, ubiquity in the global contemporary art world and capacity to invoke awe in audiences, the current state of Installation Art suggests a ‘Golden Age’. Through socially relevant themes, technological invigoration, presentation scale and community integration, Installation Art appears manifest in an increasing production flow from the artist’s studio to a gallery space or cityscape or desert horizon. Artist’s and the public are in love with objects in time and space and to explicate this explosion of work and activity, articles may delve into aspects of the mechanics, dynamics, contexts and artists who are at the innovative edge of this creative moment.What can be understood about Installation Art? Why is it such a 'contemporary' artistic practice today? How can answers to the practice’s fundamental questions be drawn out from historical, national and political contexts; from a tangle of stylistic and unique methodologies of construction, placement and temporality? In addition to texts on such ‘big picture thinking’, we also welcome studies that focus on technology, material and pedagogy alongside the discourse on modes of interpretation, controversial issues, economics and public response. As the scope of this subject is so extensive and in part, elusive, articles could focus on or circumscribe one or a number of the points below:
- History
- Artists/Collaborations
- Style and Identity
- Form and Scale
- Placement
- Technology and Interaction
- Public Sphere: Politics, Funding, Engagement, Response
- Private Collections
- Sustainability
- Future
Dr. Alistair Riddell
Guest Editor
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