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May 04, 2024
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ARFA 806 - Art as Global Communication3 credits
Art can be a language we can use to connect with distant and different cultures, to communicate with artists, students and people from around the world. Today we have media tools at our disposition that we can use for virtual travel to interface with people who live in distant places and live different lives. Whether they are 30 or 3000 miles from here, we can exchange opinions, cultural values, worldviews, our needs and desires. Through this exchange, we can expand our understanding of the world and of ourselves through Art. From global to local: one of the important roles of Urban Art is to express and render evident the great cultural and ethnic variety of our modern cities. Urban Art has been recognized by the administrations of modern cities as an important tool of bringing people together, urban beautification, expression and promotion of cultural identities. In the East coast, specific programs have been created to promote Urban Art such as the beautiful mosaics in the NYC Subway or the Murals program in Philadelphia. We will analyze this phenomenon from a social point of view: how urban art, both organized and spontaneous, expresses the multifaceted identity of our modern urban centers and ameliorates the quality of life of the people that live in them.
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