Disrupting The Gaze: Art Intervention and the Tate Gallery. "Britart and (American) Abstract Expressionism were both levered into the mainstream art world by a close-knit elite of networks comprising of art institutions commercial interests, high up government contacts, with big budget marketing strategies. Both coups branded their states’ identity and the artists as national celebrities. The Internet and the World Wide Web, have brought about shifts in contemporary art, disputing the power of the elite to dictate what our art can be. There has been much debate about the lack of official branding or acceptance of “media art” alongside its relative genres. However, these net based practices and media art, has contributed to the decentralization of contemporary art enabling artistic emancipation in a wider context. This is evident in cross-cultural art practices such as, art hacktivism, DIWO (Do It WithOthers), and peer to peer culture." And more ;-)
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