There are two concepts of public art; the old one and the new one. The first one can go back to the 1960s. Old public art had modern and formalist character, in fact it meant art in public places. The new public art is postmodern and anti-formalist, it is paradoxical offshoot of dematerialization of art and relates rather to the public sphere than to public places. It aims at permanent extension of the field of discursivity and undermining the 'communist fiction' that society has one common goal which could be uncovered by scientific research. New public art defends the public sphere in which those, who are ruled should have the same right to speak as those who rule; it defends politics against various forms of depoliticization of social life. New public art moves the interest of artists (Joseph Beuys, Hans Haacke, Christo, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger and others) from aesthetics to politics, from art to life, or to put it in other words - from artlike art to lifelike art. postmodernizm
One of the most important problems these days is the disappearance of reality, although a phrase 'virtualization of reality' might better articulate the idea. The present virtualization of reality is caused by technological progress, and more precisely, by incompatibility of our perception of the world with the third generation images which are able to simulate reality. By the means of these images our reality is doubled. As long as we speak of factual reality and virtual reality, and claim that the former is replaced by latter, we are still within the frame of the logics of representation. Paradoxically, we still know what reality is and what its virtual phantom is, and therefore, we can speak of the 'loss' of reality. Virtualization of reality lies in something different, in making us believe in plausibility of the images, in making us believe that reality is what we can see. Victory of images over reality is a threatening perspective and mass media draw us closer and closer to it. .
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