HOW EXPERIENCE, ATTENTION AND UBIQUITY ECONOMIES AFFECT THE ROLE OF DIGITAL MEDIA ART AND ARTISTS

Pedro Veiga (), Mirian Tavares () and Heitor Alvelos ()
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Pedro Veiga: CIAC, Postal: CIAC - Centro de Investigação em Artes e Comunicação, Universidade do Algarve, Portugal, http://ciac.pt/pt
Mirian Tavares: CIAC, Postal: CIAC - Centro de Investigação em Artes e Comunicação, Universidade do Algarve, Portugal, http://ciac.pt/pt
Heitor Alvelos: ID+, Postal: ID+, Universidade do Porto, ortugal, http://www.idmais.org/about/

Journal of Tourism, Sustainability and Well-being, 2017, vol. 5, issue 3, 222-238

Abstract: This article seeks to demonstrate the impact three economic concepts that gained traction in the last decades of neoliberalism – experience, attention and ubiquity – have caused in the current role of digital arts and artists in society, both on and off-line, as well as how they have changed the arts ecosystem, namely by altering the relationships between artists, audience, curating, public spaces – material and virtual, academia and companies. It addresses the commoditisation of creativity and innovation, which are now organised and consumed like products. It also offers insights on how the concept of art ownership has been replaced by experience, how mass-individualization of the selfie generation artists in a globally aestheticised and exposure-addicted world has contributed to the dismantling of community and association mind-sets and how the architecture of participation, presented as a vector of globalisation, inclusion, and democratisation of access to creation and enjoyment, actually revealed itself as a vector of inequality. It concludes by showing how hacktivism and artivism rise as new vanguards in an environment that is written and reads itself, bridging materiality and virtuality, in a multiplicity of blended spaces.

Keywords: New Media Art; Experience Economy; Ubiquity; Attention Economy; Art Ecosystem (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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