{"id":24228,"date":"2018-01-01T22:11:59","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T14:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benayoun.com\/moben\/2018\/01\/01\/a-cautionary-tale-of-urban-media-art-media-bait\/"},"modified":"2018-01-01T22:11:59","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T14:11:59","slug":"a-cautionary-tale-of-urban-media-art-media-bait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benayoun.com\/fr\/2018\/01\/01\/a-cautionary-tale-of-urban-media-art-media-bait\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cautionary Tale of Urban Media Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"outer_page_1\" class=\"outer_page only_ie6_border \">\n<div id=\"page1\" class=\"newpage\">\n<div class=\"text_layer\">\n<div class=\"ie_fix\">\n<div class=\"ff0\"><span class=\"a\">A CAUTIONARY TALE OF URBAN MEDIA ART:\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"ff0\"><span class=\"a\">MEDIA-BAIT, <\/span><span class=\"a\"><span class=\"a\">\u00a0PLANNED CENSORSHIP,\u00a0AND ITS REPERCUSSIONS<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span class=\"a\">Park, Lisa SoYoung (Researcher, artist) <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"ff0\"><span class=\"a\">Benayoun, Maurice (Professor, artist) <\/span><span class=\"a\">School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"ff5\"><span class=\"a\">ABSTRACT:<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"ff0\"><span class=\"a\">\u00a0How do curatorial initiatives in public spaces balance the critical pursuit of art vis-a-vis<\/span><span class=\"a\">\u00a0professional ethics within the relational context of the everyday? What are the pros and cons of\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"a\">conducting attention-grabbing guerilla campaigns versus running furtive and long-term initiatives in<\/span><span class=\"a\">\u00a0politically sensitive public arenas? What is at stake when corporate sponsors of art come under\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"a\">controversial media spotlight? This paper expounds on such inquiries by analyzing the collision of two\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"g\"><span class=\"a\">artistic urban interventions,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"g\"><span class=\"a\"><em>Open Sky Project<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"a\">and\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"a\"><em>Countdown Machine<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"a\">campaign, that took place in the\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"a\">delicate political context of Hong Kong in 2016.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"ff0\"><span class=\"a\">This journal article was posted on the Leonardo Just Accepted page, hosted by MIT Press, on 24\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"a\">January 2018 at the following address\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"a\"><a class=\"ll\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mitpressjournals.org\/toc\/leon\/0\/ja\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">(http:\/\/www.mitpressjournals.org\/toc\/leon\/0\/ja)<\/a><\/span><span class=\"a\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"a\">reproduced with permission,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"a\">for the authors\u2019 Academia.edu profile. Please<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"ff0\"><span class=\"a\">refer to the info<\/span><span class=\"a\">\u00a0below for citation purposes.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"a\">Park SoYoung Lisa, Benayoun Maurice.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"ff2\"><span class=\"a\">\u00a0A Cautionary Tale of Urban M<span class=\"l6\">edia Art: Media-Bait,<\/span><\/span><span class=\"a\">\u00a0Planned Censorship and Its Repercussions<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"ff0\"><span class=\"a\">Accepted publication 24 January 2018. 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