The Artist as a Metaobject in Public Space: Hybrid Encounters Between Body, Technology, and Perception

Abstract

This paper examines the artist as a metaobject in public space, exploring how bodily experience, technology, and perception interlace to form new modes of artistic interaction. Drawing from the ongoing project Open_Space, the research investigates how performative and site-specific practices transform urban and rural environments into dynamic interfaces of collective memory and digital diffusion. Through phenomenological and enactive approaches, it considers the artist’s presence as both subject and object—an embodied agent who reconfigures social, spatial, and technological relationships. The study proposes that the artist’s interaction with public space produces hybrid forms of communication and consciousness, challenging the boundaries between the physical and the digital, the private and the collective.

Presenters

Christiana Dafni Tatsi
Student, PhD (Doctorate in Fine Arts), University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM), Cuenca, Spain

Details

Presentation Type

Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

Theme

The Arts in Social, Political, and Community Life

KEYWORDS

Artist, Metaobject, Public Space, Phenomenology, Participatory Practice, Social Engagement, Hybrid