ABSTRACT
A growing number of artists are currently working simultaneously and in parallel to theorists on the phenomena associated with an accelerated global mobility of people, goods, and information. They are examining the phenomena of tourism, migration, and mobile labor as well as the structures, locations, and border zones of mobility movements or the inuence of new communication technologies on the behavior and mapping of mobile things and individuals. In the process, in terms of content and method, some artists borrow from the sciences, but without subordinating themselves to their systems of rules and without seeking to arrive at scientically veriable results. Thus, artists are increasingly availing themselves of sociological and ethnographic methods, whereby, in particular since the 1990s, their artistic appropriation is decidedly associated with critical reection. On the other hand, sociologists and anthropologists have become more and more interested in visual representations and image-based research, meaning that the relationships between these areas of science and the visual arts have become more consolidated and the number of interfaces has multiplied. In this respect, it is not surprising that artists and sociologists or ethnologists have also recently begun to directly combine their eorts.
