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| Authors: | John Grech: Department of International Communications, Macquarie University, Australia |
| Publication title: | Untitled and Undocumented: Fragments of Life in the Global City |
| Conference: | The ESF-LiU Conference Cities and Media: Cultural Perspectives on Urban Identities in a Mediatized World Vadstena, Sweden, 25–29 October, 2006 |
| Publication type: | Abstract and Fulltext |
| Issue: | 020 |
| Article No.: | 016 |
| Abstract: | This paper represents a number of projects undertaken between 1986 and 2005 and were presented as a poster at the Cities and Media conference in Vadstena, Sweden in October 2006. In the context of a scientific conference, this ’corpus’ might appear to represent a concerted effort over two decades to build a significant body of research. The thematic that body addresses could then be described as an interest in exploring and understanding a set of problematics concerning life in the contemporary city. Although such a presupposition might be true in hindsight, in fact and in practice, the work this paper represents had more humble origins. This was a desire to produce aesthetic objects – works of art. For a reader expecting a more conventional, scientifically oriented, and empirically objective project, this paper will beg a question about the nature of research. It also raises an age-old problem or question about what art really is. I hope the following paper will shed some light on these issues. I also hope to show how the projects I have undertaken over the last 20 years through a range of media might, and correctly should, have been considered as legitimate forms of research representing a concerted investigation into life in the contemporary city. |
| Language: | English |
| Year: | 2006 |
| No. of pages: | 20 |
| Pages: | 149–168 |
| Series: | Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings |
| ISSN (print): | 1650-3686 |
| ISSN (online): | 1650-3740 |
| File: | http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/020/016/ecp072016.pdf |
| Available: | 2007-03-06 |
| Publisher: | Linköping University Electronic Press, Linköpings universitet |
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