Abstract

VALENTE, Catarina  and  ELIAS, Helena. Smart-cities and public art. The contribution of curatorship in the digital universe. Forum Sociológico [online]. 2019, n.35, pp.31-39.  Epub July 28, 2021. ISSN 0872-8380.  https://doi.org/10.4000/sociologico.8105.

We are witnessing the transition to a mediatized urban landscape. The visual impact of public art changed the consumption patterns. The smart-cities recognized public art as a dynamic phenomenon of the urban fabric. Its integration in the visual culture underlines the importance of public art in the urban context and in the processes of symbolic signification. The curatorship promotes a more efficient mediation between the institutions, the artistic community and the publics of the cities. Nevertheless, the mobile applications exploring mural productions do not deepen the contents delivered to the user. Digital curatorship enriches the production of these contents and offers strategies that dialog with the physical and virtual infrastructures of cities. This article is based on the model of action-research towards the potentialities of public art, contributing to its positioning in the physical and virtual instances and to the evolution of the models of participation and interaction with the audiences, while discussing the importance of curatorship to the comprehension and legitimating of the artistic processes inherent to the production of art in the public space.

Keywords : public art; smart-city; digital curatorship; visual culture.

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