Public Art: Interactive Art & Urban Games

 

This slideshow requires JavaScript.

Hard to make clear definitions, interactive art and urban games are a constitute of Art and Technology, promoting active interactions with their audience. Their appearance introduces a new understanding of Art-Technology relations while historicizing contemporary art.

Arte Povera

Arte Povera referred to the term “poor art” and was a contemporary art movement between 1962 and 1972 in Italy and more specifically Turin, Italy.

As a movement it also referred to the humble, often simple materials employed, and the anti-institutional quality that originally affected this art. Arte Povera usually incorporates organic and industrial materials in ways that reveal the conflicts between the natural and the man-made. Through sculpture, assemblage, and performance Arte Povera artists became engaged in subjective investigations of the relationships between life and art and between seeing and thinking.

The featured photograph shows some of the main figures during this movement. Because Art Povera was a reaction against modernism and the American minimalism it is mostly exhibited in sculptural installations in which dynamic interaction with the public was more important that the static sculpture itself.