scholarly journals REDRESSING DIGITAL ORIENTALISM: VIETNAMESE CULTURAL PROFESSIONALS’ DIGITAL WORK DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (43) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Duester ◽  
Michal Teague
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Art World ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Digital Ethnography ◽  
Art And Culture ◽  
Digital Work ◽  
Facebook Pages ◽  
Global Art

The current study investigates how digital technologies can potentially be used to re-orientate the global narrative on Vietnam, overcome an imbalance in representation and help redress digital orientalism. Global digital technologies allow Vietnamese cultural professionals to reach beyond the borders of their nation and to become part of the global art world. With this,they can participate in the production, dissemination, and circulation of discourses on art and culture globally. In doing so, they can redress digital orientalism by contemporizing narratives on Vietnam. However, there is an underlying tension, as the very means by which their voicesare heard is achieved by using global (western) technologies, tools and platforms. The research uses a digital ethnography of the Facebook pages of 7 contemporary art spaces in Hanoi and 20 semi-structured interviews with art and cultural professionals in Hanoi. The interviews were carried out during the Covid-19 Pandemic and addressed its impact and use of digital technology in their work during this time.

How Digitization is Empowering Vietnamese Cultural Professionals to Preserve, Present, and Promote Art and Culture Online: Navigating Challenges whilst Harnessing Opportunities to Create a Digital Culture

2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-49
Author(s):  
Emma Duester
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Cultural Preservation ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Art And Culture ◽  
Digital Work ◽  
Cultural Sector ◽  
Cultural Colonialism ◽  
Free Open Source

Abstract The ability to publish and provide access to cultural resources via free, open source digital platforms is empowering Vietnamese cultural professionals to promote their culture to local and international audiences. Digitization projects now include the use of 3D, VR, and AR digital technologies for the purpose of being published on digital platforms. This is creating an emergent digital culture in Vietnam, with an increasing amount of available resources online. Digitization projects are now used to preserve cultural heritage as well as to present and promote contemporary art and culture. This reflects a change in practices amongst cultural professionals in Hanoi, in terms of how digital technologies are used and the value placed on making cultural resources publicly accessible online. However, as new content, knowledge, and voices are able to participate in the online discourse on art and culture, the question remains as to whether this digital transition is creating greater equality and inclusion in the cultural sector or if it is exacerbating already existing forms of digital cultural colonialism. This paper presents findings from 50 interviews with cultural professionals working in the cultural sector in Hanoi about their digitization projects and digital work practices, the developments in digitization in Hanoi’s cultural sector over the past five years, how cultural professionals are utilizing the opportunities afforded by digital technologies for cultural preservation and promotion, as well as the challenges they face in carrying out digitization projects.

scholarly journals Inside and Outside the Market for Contemporary Art in Brazil, through the Experience of Artists and Gallerists

Arts ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Amanda Brandellero
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Art Market ◽  
Art World ◽  
Visual Artists ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
Market Expansion ◽  
Market Consolidation ◽  
Global Art ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
World Development

In this paper, I seek to extend our understanding of global art markets by focusing on the relationships between different art world agents and their perceived responsibilities and roles in a market considered locally ‘incipient’ and emergent on the global scene. For this purpose, I draw on over 50 interviews with art gallerists, independent art spaces and visual artists represented by them, living in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, the two largest clusters of the contemporary art market in Brazil, at a time of market expansion and internationalisation. In an incipient market, two main functions are considered important: Developing the commercial circuit and opening up the market, and; enhancing the value of art in society. Such functions occur against the backdrop of a large and complex country, where the ‘eixo’ (axis) of the main cities offers greater opportunities for visibility and valorization. The findings help to elucidate the perceptions of responsibility and roles in a context of market development, as well as the emerging boundaries between culture and the market. Moreover, the paper explores the emerging dynamics and strategies of art world development as they are enacted, offering insights into how art market actors perceive their roles and responsibilities, as well as the strategies available to them to support market consolidation.

scholarly journals Art as Critique under Neoliberalism: Negativity Undoing Economic Naturalism

Arts ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Alexander Gawronski
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Art World ◽  
Real Nature ◽  
Political Critique ◽  
Individual Enterprise ◽  
Neoliberal Economics ◽  
Art And Culture ◽  
Contemporary Artist

This essay considers the possibilities of contemporary art as a viable medium of socio-political critique within a cultural terrain dominated by naturalised neoliberal economics. It begins by considering the centrality of negativity to the historical project of critical theory most forcefully pursued by Adorno as ‘negative dialectics.’ Subsequent varieties of postmodern critique fairly dispensed with dialectics variously favouring complexity and an overriding emphasis on textuality. With the birth of neoliberalism and its burgeoning emphasis on ‘the contemporary’, economic values begin to penetrate every aspect of contemporary life and experience, including art and culture. Contemporary capitalism dematerialised as financialisation now comprises a naturalised ambience that is both everywhere and nowhere. Capitalist ambience is echoed in contemporary art that suggests criticality and yet seems to side with the imagery, values and logics of the prevailing financial order. The naturalisation of the neoliberal order is further internalised by artists online. Exacerbated contemporary emphasis on the ‘self as entrepreneur’ coincides with the biopolitical transformation of the contemporary artist into an individual ‘enterprise unit’. This is particularly observable online on social media where an artist’s whole life is simultaneously the subject and object of art. Criticality in art does not disappear but becomes ‘self-annulling’: it acts as a conduit questioning the commodity-identity of art while pointing to phenomena and affects outside the art world. With the recent appearance of the COVID-19 virus, added to the unignorable impact of global climate change, ‘real nature’ assumes a critical role, undermining neoliberalism’s ideological naturalisation while laying-bare the extent of its structural contradictions. Art criticality is revivified by divesting from art contexts saturated with neoliberal imperatives. Criticality is negatively practiced as an ‘un-’ or ‘not-doing’, defining modes of exodus while, crucially, not abandoning art’s institutional definition altogether.

scholarly journals Art journalism and the impact of ‘globalisation’: New fugal modalities of storytelling in Austral-Asian writing

2008 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-161
Author(s):  
Ruth Skilbeck
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Art Market ◽  
Art World ◽  
Story Telling ◽  
Art Writing ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Global Art

The writing of art journalism has played a key yet little acknowledged role in the ongoing expansion of the international contemporary art world, and the multi-billion dollar global art economy. This article discusses some contradictory impacts of globalisation on art journalism—from extremes of sensationalist record-breaking art market reporting in the global mass media to the emergence of innovative modalities of story-telling in Australian independent journalistic art writing.  This article discusses some contradictory impacts of gobalisation on art journalism— from extremes of sensationalist record-breaking art market reporting in the global mass media to the emergence of innovative modalities of story-telling in Australian independent art writing. 

The Factors of Market Success and Failure of Contemporary Artists from ASEAN countries | ปัจจัยทางการตลาด ที่ทำาให้ศิลปินร่วมสมัยจากประเทศอาเซียนประสบ ความสำาเร็จ หรือ ล้มเหลว

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rémy Jarry ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Multidisciplinary Approach ◽  
Art Market ◽  
Art World ◽  
Asean Countries ◽  
Global Art ◽  
Do So ◽  
Contemporary Artists

The market of contemporary art from Southeast Asia hasn’t been explored in-depth, despite its rise in sales and notoriety over the last two decades at national and international levels. Our aim is to identify the factors of success and failure of contemporary artists from ASEAN countries in the global art market. To do so, we map the trajectories of those artists and evaluate the role of the other stakeholders of the art world. Our methodology relies on a multidisciplinary approach, balancing quantitative and qualitative data. The period of study focuses on the art market data since 2000.

scholarly journals Glocalization: An Analytical Path Towards More Inclusive Contemporary Art?

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-12
Author(s):  
Lina Abazine
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Art World ◽  
Social Anthropology ◽  
Art Exhibition ◽  
University Of Vienna ◽  
Art Worlds ◽  
The University ◽  
Global Art

A student essay for the Special Student Issue of the Journal of Extreme Anthropology accompanying the art exhibition 'Artist's Waste, Wasted Artists', which opened in Vienna on the 19th of September 2017 and was curated by the students of social anthropology at the University of Vienna. This essay deals critically with the notion of the 'global art world', showing that there may instead be numerous self-centred and ethnocentric art worlds, while also critically engaging with inequalities that persist within and across these art worlds and markets. In this respect it also deals with the work of the Iranian artist Aria Vooria, based in Vienna, and his struggle to escape streotypizations across different art worlds.

scholarly journals La educación artística como configuración de lo contemporáneo en el arte

2018 ◽  
pp. 149
Author(s):  
Daniel Montero
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Art Criticism ◽  
Art World ◽  
Art Theory ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Or Practice ◽  
Art Research ◽  
Global Art ◽  
Art Schools ◽  
Arte Contemporáneo

Resumen: El siguiente texto es una reflexión personal que parte de mi experiencia profesional como investigador en historia y crítica de arte, así como de mi labor docente en escuelas de formación artística en niveles de licenciatura y posgrado y que permite pensar en cómo es que tanto la teoría, la historia y las prácticas del arte coinciden necesariamente. Se argumenta, en general, que la noción de arte contemporáneo, más que un estilo o una moda, es un espacio de experimentación que puede ser aprovechado en las escuelas de arte como un lugar para pensar en cómo es que se percibe la realidad inmediata y cómo es que se pueden singularizar ciertas experiencias de una manera única, de forma muy diferente a cualquier otra disciplina. En ese sentido, y al contrario de lo que se podría esperar por las reglamentaciones y tradiciones que lo predeterminan, el espacio académico se convierte a su vez en un lugar en que la práctica del arte puede escapar y empezar a dialogar de otra forma con la institucionalidad del mundo del arte global y de ciertas maneras de hacer que se han convertido en códigos fácilmente comprensibles. Así, la noción de arte contemporáneo incorporada a la escuela podría incluso cuestionar las mismas bases del conocimiento artístico permitiendo cierta movilidad de los sujetos, así como de las prácticas. Palabras clave: Investigación artística, Arte contemporáneo, Arte crítico, Escuela de arte, Formación artística.   Abstract: The following text is a personal reflection from my professional experience as a researcher in arte history and art criticism, as well as from my teaching work in art schools at undergraduate and graduate levels. That allows me to think about how the art theory, art history and practice of art necessarily coincide. It is argued, in general, that the notion of contemporary art, rather than a style or a fad, is a space for experimentation that can be used in art schools as a place to think about how it is perceived the immediate reality and how it is that you can single out certain experiences in a unique way, very differently from any other discipline or practice. In that sense, and contrary to what could be expected by the regulations and traditions that predetermine it, the academic space becomes a place where the practice of art can escape the institutionality of the global art world and of certain ways of doing that have become easily understandable codes. Thus, the notion of contemporary art incorporated into the school could even question the very foundations of artistic knowledge allowing certain mobility of the subjects, as well as of the practices. Keywords: Art research, Contemporary art, Critical art, School of art, Artistic education.   http://dx.doi.org/10.7203/eari.9.11492

scholarly journals Education for the Provision of Technologically Enhanced Legal Services

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vaclav Janecek ◽  
Rebecca Williams ◽  
Ewart Keep
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Legal Services ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Legal Professionals ◽  
Advanced Technologies ◽  
And Training

Legal professionals increasingly rely on digital technologies when they provide legal services. The most advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) promise great advancements of legal services, but lawyers are traditionally not educated in the field of digital technology and thus cannot fully unlock the potential of such technologies in their practice. In this paper, we identify five distinct skills and knowledge gaps that prevent lawyers from implementing AI and digital technology in the provision of legal services and suggest concrete models for education and training in this area. Our findings and recommendations are based on a series of semi-structured interviews, design and delivery of an experimental course in ‘Law and Computer Science’, and an analysis of the empirical data in view of wider debates in the literature concerning legal education and 21st century skills.

Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Stallabrass
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Art World ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Big Business ◽  
Art Scene ◽  
Global Art

Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction presents a radical analysis of the global art scene. Contemporary art has never been so popular—but the art world is changing. Today, there is growing interest in questions over the nature and use of contemporary art, and over who controls its future. This VSI studies how new regions and nations, such as China, have leapt into astonishing prominence, overturning the old Euro-American dominance. It also examines the powerful influence of big business and the super-rich on the art world, and the reinvention of artists and museums as brands.

scholarly journals Research on Digital Cultural Creation Design of The Palace Museum from the Perspective of Symbol consumption -- A Case study of Twelve Beauties of Prince Yong

2021 ◽  
Vol 236 ◽  
pp. 05019
Author(s):  
Gang li ◽  
Jiaqi Xuan ◽  
Shaoyang Ren
Keyword(s):  
Communication Technology ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Mobile Internet ◽  
Cultural Symbols ◽  
Art And Culture ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Creative Products ◽  
Development Prospects

With the development of digital technology, mobile terminals have become a new medium for museum cultural and creative products to spread the connotation of art and culture. The innovation of digital technology has caused corresponding changes in the design of cultural and creative products, and various digital cultural and creative products have been created on its basis. The emergence of digital technologies such as mobile Internet, cloud computing, AI, VR, human-computer interaction, and 5G communication technology has brought broader development prospects for digital creative design. This article studies the concepts of cultural symbols and design methods of the digital cultural and creative products of The Palace Museum to provide new ideas for the design of digital cultural and creative products of the museum. We choose Twelve Beauties of Prince Yong as an example, the first digital cultural creation product of The Palace Museum.

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