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  • Valiz Authenticity? Observations and Artistic Strategies in the Post-Digital Age
  • Valiz Authenticity? Observations and Artistic Strategies in the Post-Digital Age
  • Valiz Authenticity? Observations and Artistic Strategies in the Post-Digital Age
  • Valiz Authenticity? Observations and Artistic Strategies in the Post-Digital Age
  • Valiz Authenticity? Observations and Artistic Strategies in the Post-Digital Age

Authenticity? Observations and Artistic Strategies in the Post-Digital Age

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Edited by Barbara Cueto and Bas Hendrikx. Published by Valiz.

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The series ‘Making Public’ investigates ‘the public,’ the civil domain where space, knowledge, values and commodities are shared. What does this notion of ‘public’ mean? How does this domain change under the influence of social, political and technological tendencies? Where are the boundaries of ‘the public’ and how are they determined? What interests are involved in this? What forms of responsibility and solidarity does ‘the public’ invoke? And how do artists and culture critics shape the debate on these issues?

The everyday connotations of the original, the real, sincere, valid, historical or deep are well-known, and the opposite of the authentic may then be the superficial, false, not-what-it seems, or just new. Nonetheless ‘the real thing’ presents us with some productive ambiguities that create a point of departure for an analysis and a better understanding of the changes in the post-digital society. Digital technology is embedded in almost every personal relationship, in labour conditions, and in aesthetic practices. WHat does this mean for the ‘authentic’? To unfold the nuances of the concept of contemporary authenticity this book aims to bring together different thinkers to reflect on the meaning of the authentic now. As a process and as a fluid and performative scheme to be enacted at any time—not just in terms of art and art making but flowing into every single nook of contemporary life, from the intimate to the public.