Open! Regarding Art, Culture & the Public Domain is a collection of key texts on art, culture and the public domain published in Open – Cahier on Art and the Public Domain between 2004 and 2012. The essays in this book were written by international theorists and offer an intriguing glimpse into significant issues in the theory and practice of today’s public space. At the same time, they reflect the commitment and the themes of eight years of Open, including security, informal media, social engineering, ‘precarity’, war, privacy, populism, transparency, mobility and autonomy.

Open! Regarding Art, Culture & the Public Domain is a collection of key texts on art, culture and the public domain published in Open – Cahier on Art and the Public Domain between 2004 and 2012. The essays in this book were written by international theorists and offer an intriguing glimpse into significant issues in the theory and practice of today’s public space. At the same time, they reflect the commitment and the themes of eight years of Open, including security, informal media, social engineering, ‘precarity’, war, privacy, populism, transparency, mobility and autonomy.

Open conducts an engaged, thematic and interdisciplinary investigation into the changing conditions of public space and new ideas about the public sphere, focusing on the impact of current processes of privatization, mediatization and globalization on society and cultural production. Open examines the communal, the dynamics of ownership and the relationships of power.