ABSTRACT
This book examines cultural participation from three different, but interrelated perspectives: participatory art and aesthetics; participatory digital media, and participatory cultural policies and institutions.
Focusing on how ideals and practices relating to cultural participation express and (re)produce different "cultures of participation", an interdisciplinary team of authors demonstrate how the areas of arts, digital media, and cultural policy and institutions are shaped by different but interrelated contextual backgrounds. Chapters offer a variety of perspectives and strategies for empirically identifying "cultures of participation" and their current transformations and tensions in various regional and national settings.
This book will be of interest to academics and cultural leaders in the areas of museum studies, media and communications, arts, arts education, cultural studies, curatorial studies and digital studies. It will also be relevant for cultural workers, artists and policy makers interested in the participatory agenda in art, digital media and cultural institutions.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|79 pages
Participatory art and aesthetics
chapter 4|20 pages
Cross-cultural collaboration
chapter 5|19 pages
Art and local communities
part II|74 pages
Digital media and technology
chapter 6|17 pages
VR – the culture of (non) participation?
chapter 9|18 pages
The participatory patient
part III|71 pages
Cultural policy and institutions