Digital art as urban communication

Abstract

As mobility and migration become the norm., citizens in modern cities live among people who remain strangers to each other. This creates new opportunities and challenges for urban social life. Public space is a critical forum in which strangers encounter each other and have the opportunity to develop social protocols for coexisting in diversity. New media technologies have huge impact on the form and quality of public space. Digital art can create experimental public spaces in which mediated connections and embodied presence are combined. in new ways. Through the practice and research of digital art, we can imagine a communicative city in which urban digital media is less about spectacle, a..