Uncommon Grounds

Anthony Downey is an academic and writer. He is the author of Art and Politics Now (Thames and Hudson, 2014), and editor of Uncommon Grounds: New Media and Critical Practice in North Africa and the Middle East (I.B. Tauris, 2014). Recent and forthcoming publications include The Future of a Promise: Contemporary Art from the Arab World (Ibraaz Publishing, 2011); Dissonant Archives: Knowledge Production and Art Practices in the Middle East (forthcoming, I.B. Tauris, 2015); and Mirrors for Princes (NYU Press, forthcoming 2015). He is the Director of the Contemporary Art Masters Programme at Sothebys Institute of Art, London, and the Editor in Chief of Ibraaz (www.ibraaz.org), a research forum on visual culture across the Middle East and North Africa.

• Anthony DowneyIntroductionPhilip Rizk 2011 is not 1968: An open letter to an onlookerFranco BerardiThe Paradox of Media Activism: The Net is not a Tool, It's an EnvironmentAnthony DowneyFor the Common Good: Artistic Practices and Civil Society in Tunisia. Jens Maier-Rothe, Dina Kafafi, Azin FeizabadiCitizens Reporting and the Fabrication of Collective Memory Derya YucelArt's Networks: A New Communal ModelDina MatarA critical reflection on aesthetics and politics in the digital ageNat Muller Performing the Undead: Life and Death in Social Media and Contemporary ArtSheyma BualiDigital, Aesthetic, Ephemeral: A brief look at image and narrativeOmar Kholeif Re-Examining The Social Impulse: Politics, Media and Art after the Arab Uprisings Maymanah Farhat New Media and the Spectacle of the War on TerrorLaura U. MarksArab Glitch Maxa Zoller Potential Media The appropriation of images commercial media and activist practices in Egypt today Nermin Sayba??l? The Magnetic Remenances: Voice and Sound in Digital Art and MediaEdit Molnar and Aleya HamzaWhen the Going Gets Tough…Tarek KhouryThe Art of the Written Word + New Media Dissemination: Across the Borders between Syria and LebanonMahmoud Abu HashhashFarther Than Language Can ReachWalter MignoloRe:emerging, Decentring, Delinking: Shifting the Geographies of Sensing, Believing and KnowingAmal KhalafThe Many Afterlives of LuluTimo Kaabi-LinkeOn Revolution and Rubbish: What has Changed in Tunisia since Spring 2011Annabelle SrebernyCardboard Khomeini – An InterrogationGulf LaborSaadiyat and the Gulf Labor BoycottARTIST PROJECTSTarzan and Arab: GAZAWOODGanzeer: POSTER DESIGNS Sophia Al-Maria: CHEWING THE DATA FATSarah Abu Abdallah: SAUDI AUTOMOBILEFaycal Bahgriche: FAMILY FRIENDLYJananne Al-Ani: SHADOW SITES Mosireen: REVOLUTION TRIPTYCH Mariam Ghani: Notes from the Archive (IMAGES)