Art in Space-Time: archeology of r.u.a - increased urban reality. When the meeting becomes an artistic, collective and expanded territory

Abstract

This debate proposes an analysis of art in the context of “space-time”, emphasizing urbanness and relocating objects to the field of aesthetics. To move between interfaces, mediations, processess and flows seems to be one of the dilemmas faced by art nowadays. Through the use of social dynamics, creative and productive practices and digital media that converge and hybridise, this ongoing investigation aim to identify elements such as ubiquity and pervasiveness that, in face of urban and virtual spaces, reconfigure themselves in new mappings of the present time that focus on the formation of present-day urban ideals in constant mutation. Here we aim to investigate the artistic how-tos that take ownership of the “space-time” using a participative and shared model of networking through processes of transformation of territories and their social, political and technological implications on the urban fabric focusing on social creativity, collective actions, and contemporary artistic practices.