Open AccessAfterword to Re@ct: Social Change Art Technology
Author(s) -
Sarah Cook
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
nmc media-n
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1942-017X
DOI - 10.21900/j.median.v17i2.773
Subject(s) - covid-19 , social media , pandemic , visual arts , media studies , sociology , history , aesthetics , art , political science , medicine , law , disease , pathology , virology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty)
This is the afterword to Re@ct: Social Change Art Technology, a special issue of Media-N that gathers contributions from selected participants in the Re@ct symposium held in Dundee, Scotland in 2019. The afterword discusses the artistic origins of common communication technologies, and proposes that artists are well-placed to examine behaviors that may become commonplace as our engagement with technology, and one another, changes as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.