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Ocula 28 Vol. 24 | December 2023 | DOI: 10.57576/ocula2023-8 | Booklet ➞ PDF | < >
Public Art and Urban Spaces
Contributors to this Issue: Aleonora Ambrosini, Brigitte Auziol, Federico Biggio, Maria Chiara Caiazzo, Annalisa Cattani, Michele Dentico, Pietro Gaglianò, Elena S. Lazaridou, Federico Montanari, Alessandra Pioselli, Ruggero Ragonese, Gabriella Rava, Fabrizio Rivola, Irene Ruzzier, Sara Uboldi, Antongiulio Vergine, Luigi Virgolin, Ilaria Zampieri, Nicola Zengiaro.
Mimicry constitutes a response to the environmental pressure exerted by predators on prey in the context of natural selection. The hypothesis proposed in this article is that the conflict generated by the competition of several languages, often in competition with each other in urb |... ⇲
This article aims at examining the role that public art might have in processes of reconfiguration and resignfiication of urban space in view of the unveiling of absent emergencies, with a specific focus on Jorit’s murals’ located in Naples’ peripheral areas. Rancière’s politico-ae |... ⇲
The contribution intends to examine the relationship between anonymity and Street Art, in relation to the (often massive) use of social networks by certain artists and the changes these tools have brought about in society. The considerations made not only reflect on the popularity |... ⇲
The aim of this paper is to provide a reflection on the impact that the experiences of public and participatory art can have on citizens, also in terms of people’s well-being and health. After an introduction on the role that Public Art can exercise in the cultural welfare context, |... ⇲
The paper proposes a semiotic analysis of Cityscapes by Valeriana Berchicci, a digital museum of memory of Rome hosted on a permanent and interactive online platform that maps the city through oral narratives collected by the artist and the users themselves. The goal is to test whe |... ⇲
Art and the artistic space have taken a new meaning in relation to the ecological catastrophe. Public Art, starting with the notion of “Chthulucene”, emphasizes the urgency of multi-species collaborations and care. The relevance of the article is to characterize art in public space |... ⇲
The combination of Augmented Reality (AR) art and urban art has been at the centre of numerous experiments and pioneering aesthetic research that have progressively interpreted this medium as subversive and expressive. Such processes create spaces of fruition beyond the real, at th |... ⇲
Public Art, by investing the urban space, covers different practices that have in common to be part of a social and political dimension. Faced with the growing privatization of public space, Malte Martin, designer and urban scenographer aims in his interventions to make the public |... ⇲
This paper proposes a semiotic analysis of street artworks on the urban public space of cities. Street art works can appear as unimodal or multimodal texts, these latter activating multiple senses outside of vision. Works involved in this study are located on distribution cabinets, |... ⇲
The aim of the essay is to analyse the ways in which institutions use an artistic practice such as Street Art for the self-description of their culture, as in the case of the Taranto Regeneration Urban Street. In a socio-political context characterised in recent years by strong con |... ⇲
The spectatorship conditions the relationship between observers and artworks since the crisis of the Ancien Règime. The most engaged artists and theorist, in twentieth-century art and theater, considered such position as impossible and intolerable. Jacques Rancière opposed to this |... ⇲
The paper explores curatorship’s role in relation to public art interventions in urban spaces, with a particular attention to cases where they are part of urban regeneration processes. Through the analysis of Without Frontiers, an Urban Art festival that has been organised by Carav |... ⇲
On the basis of some recent studies that, from an interdisciplinary perspective, have focused in particular on the socio-political dimension of public art, this paper aims at analyzing the controversial use of public artworks in post-conflict Northern Ireland. Sculptures such as RI |... ⇲
"Contenuto Rimosso and Ca’Mon – Centro di Comunità per l’arte e l’artigianato di montagna" are two projects located in small mountain villages. They contribute to rethinking the mountain as a place for contemporary production as well the directions of an artistic practice that has |... ⇲
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Since 2019 Ocula is ranked as a class A journal by ANVUR for Research Area 10/C1 and 11/C4.
Ocula adheres to the principles of Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI)
Ocula is indexed by Directory Open Access Journal (DOAJ) and Google Scholar
The content on this site is licensed under Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND)