{"id":1579,"date":"2017-09-01T16:21:26","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T14:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wehaveasituation.net\/?p=1579"},"modified":"2026-10-29T18:36:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T17:36:38","slug":"cyberformance-and-civic-engagement-in-post-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wehaveasituation.net\/?p=1579","title":{"rendered":"Cyberformance and civic engagement in post-democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.igi-global.com\/book\/convergence-contemporary-art-visual-culture\/162403\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1778 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/wehaveasituation.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Convergence_bookcover-222x300.webp\" alt=\"Book cover, Convergence of Contemporary Art, Visual Culture and Global Civic Engagement.\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" target=\"_blank\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wehaveasituation.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Convergence_bookcover-222x300.webp 222w, https:\/\/wehaveasituation.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Convergence_bookcover.webp 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 85vw, 222px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;We have a situation!&#8221; is the subject of a chapter on cyberformance and civic engagement in post-democracy, recently published in &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.igi-global.com\/book\/convergence-contemporary-art-visual-culture\/162403\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" name=\"Covergence of Contemporary Art\">Convergence of Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Global Civic Engagement<\/a>&#8220;, ed. Ryan Shin, (IGI Global, 2016; ISBN 9781522516651).<\/p>\n<p>The chapter, written by Helen Varley Jamieson, discusses how \u201cWe have a situation!\u201d uses cyberformance\u00a0 to provoke conversations around urgent contemporary issues. Through heterarchical co-creation processes and real-time online events, temporary networked communities emerge and engage in creative problem-solving. The fifth \u201csituation,\u201d created at Multicidade Festival in Rio de Janeiro in November 2015, addressed the problem of water pollution in the context of the approaching 2016 Olympic Games. This chapter chronicles the process of creating and presenting this event and proposes that cyberformance fosters an intimate proto-political form of online engagement as a positive alternative to increasingly commodified activism in commercialised internet spaces. The chapter concludes that networked arts projects &#8211; in social, artistic and educational contexts &#8211; have an important role to play in the post-democratic reconfiguration of civic engagement, agency and activism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We have a situation!&#8221; is the subject of a chapter on cyberformance and civic engagement in post-democracy, recently published in &#8220;Convergence of Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Global Civic Engagement&#8220;, ed. Ryan Shin, (IGI Global, 2016; ISBN 9781522516651). The chapter, written by Helen Varley Jamieson, discusses how \u201cWe have a situation!\u201d uses cyberformance\u00a0 to provoke &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wehaveasituation.net\/?p=1579\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cyberformance and civic engagement in post-democracy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001002,"featured_media":1778,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-com","category-helen","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehaveasituation.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehaveasituation.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehaveasituation.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehaveasituation.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehaveasituation.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1579"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/wehaveasituation.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1782,"href":"https:\/\/wehaveasituation.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions\/1782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehaveasituation.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehaveasituation.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehaveasituation.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehaveasituation.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}