ISEA2015

The Panel will discuss critical modes of practice that have developed over the past two decades with a focus on whether (and to what extent) they reveal and disrupt surrounding narratives, beliefs or ideologies and/or instigate critical discussion while encouraging more active forms of intervention and agency. If works of critical design such as those of Onkar Kular and CohenVanBalen are created to foster greater collective and democratic participation through a critical practice aimed at social emancipation, we believe that what remains missing in the current context is a critical discourse that addresses if and how these different works meet such lofty goals. Contributors to this panel will provide their own unique perspectives on these issues in an attempt to create the very spaces of possibility for critical discourse.