Media-Bait, Planned Censorship and Its Repercussions

— A Cautionary Tale of Urban Media Art
A CAUTIONARY TALE OF URBAN MEDIA ART: 
MEDIA-BAIT,  PLANNED CENSORSHIP, AND ITS REPERCUSSIONS
Park, Lisa SoYoung (Researcher, artist)
Benayoun, Maurice (Professor, artist) School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong
ABSTRACT:
 How do curatorial initiatives in public spaces balance the critical pursuit of art vis-a-vis professional ethics within the relational context of the everyday? What are the pros and cons of conducting attention-grabbing guerilla campaigns versus running furtive and long-term initiatives in politically sensitive public arenas? What is at stake when corporate sponsors of art come under controversial media spotlight? This paper expounds on such inquiries by analyzing the collision of two artistic urban interventions, Open Sky Project and Countdown Machine campaign, that took place in the delicate political context of Hong Kong in 2016.
This journal article was posted on the Leonardo Just Accepted page, hosted by MIT Press, on 24 January 2018 at the following address (http://www.mitpressjournals.org/toc/leon/0/ja) and reproduced with permission, for the authors’ Academia.edu profile. Please
refer to the info below for citation purposes. Park SoYoung Lisa, Benayoun Maurice.
 A Cautionary Tale of Urban Media Art: Media-Bait, Planned Censorship and Its Repercussions
Accepted publication 24 January 2018. Doi:10.1162/LEON_a_01611

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