Introductory note: public arts for tourism communication?

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https://doi.org/10.21814/rlec.2665

Abstract

Public art, in addition to the intentions expressed in its production and writing by the respective artists, or beyond its consumption and interpretation by its audiences, is also understood within the context of the mediation processes between its creation and viewing. Such intermediation is activated by various communication contexts – such as a museum or an event in an urban street or square. Public art is communicated within multiple spheres of the urban public space. In other words, public art extends, and is understood together with (is founded on, and merged with) other social processes, in different ways, according to the type of social environment in which a public art work occurs. For example, a public work of art can articulate or combine socioeconomic, political and cultural dimensions...

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Author Biographies

Pedro Andrade, Communication and Society Research Centre, University of Minho, Portugal

Pedro Andrade is a Sociologist and Researcher at the University of Minho, CECS. He teaches at the University of Coimbra and University of Lisbon, on Sociology of Culture, Communication, Sociological Methods, Digital Humanities. Research about urban cultures, art communication, art/science museums, literacies, digital social networks (web 2.0/web 3.0), methodologies /hybrimedia. Coordinator of international projects, e.g. “Scientific-Technological Literacy and Public Opinion” (2005, on science museums publics) and “Public Communication of Arts” (2011, about art museums and its relationships with audiences, tourism, digital/virtual sociological methodology, hybrimedia interaction, sociological/cultural games, social networks, virtual/augmented reality), funded by the FCT. Participation within international university webs e.g. Virginia Commonwealth Univ., USA; member of the project “Manifesto Art and Social Inclusion in Urban Communities” (UK). Author of several books and scientific papers published in international and national journals with peer review, indexed in global bibliographic databases (Web of Science, etc.). Director of the first Portuguese-French scientific journal, Atalaia-Intermundos (since 1995).

Mário Caeiro, School of Arts and Design, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal

Mário Caeiro é conferencista, programador cultural, curador e investigador no campo da cultura urbana e da arte pública. É autor de Arte da Cidade – História Contemporânea, publicado em 2014. Ativo desde 1995 como curador independente interessado em transdisciplinariedade, retórica, espaço público e cidade, os seus projetos mais conhecidos são: Lisboa, Capital do Nada – Marvila 2001 (2001-2002), Luzboa – Bienal Internacional da Luz (2004/2006); Projeto VICENTE, iniciativa anual integrada no Projeto Revista Lusófona de Travessa da Ermida, Lisboa (2011-), e em curadoria no Museu de Lisboa (2019); e o Festival BELLA SKYWAY (Toruń, Polónia), desde 2009. Doutorado em Artes Visuais e Intermedia pela Universidade Politecnica de Valencia (Espanha), com tese sobre a retórica da arte na cidade. Foi condecorado Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres pelo Governo Francês, em 2005. Leciona na ESAD.CR/IPL desde 2004.

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Published

2020-06-29

How to Cite

Andrade, P., & Caeiro, M. (2020). Introductory note: public arts for tourism communication?. Lusophone Journal of Cultural Studies, 7(1), 7–18. https://doi.org/10.21814/rlec.2665