[ISEA95] Panel: Simo Alitalo — The Changes in Public/Private Sphere and Presentation of Electronic Media Arts

Panel Statement

Panel: Emerging Art Practices

While creating and mediating human relations, electronic media also create new kinds of spaces and reevaluate/resignify old spaces. Because media initiate changes in the structural relationship between public and private, they are considered to be dangerous by many. What seems to be the issue is not the question of content, but rather that video makes genuinely private viewing possible. Electronic artworks are still presented in museums or exhibition spaces which reflect nineteenth century ideas of public space. It is rather curious that these changes have not had more effect on the presentation practices in electronic art.

  • Simo Alitalo (Finland) is a sound artist and theorist whose interests are in environmental sounds produced by both the ecosphere and mediasphere. He is a radio producer and artist with FBC’s Radioateljee unit. He works as a media art curator at the Turku-based Media Gallery and teaches at the Turku School of Art and Communication, the University of Turku, and the University of Lapland.