Critical Arts

Usage
Critical Art can been found in many different kinds of media for like; computer graphics/ web design, film/video, photography, literature and performance.

Purpose
People who create critical art want to provoke an reaction or give out criticism involving socio-political issues, a significant portion of those artists strive for a world where the authoritarian culture dimishes to a lower level or even complete ceases to exsist.

Critical Arts Ensemble
Critical Art has become so important that it even formed an art group in 1987 by the name

Critical Arts Ensemble. In the year 1986 Steve Kurtz and Steve Barnes started a collaberation with students to make low-tech videos, this group of student together with Steve Kurtz and Steve Barnes became the core-group of the Critical Arts Ensemble in 1987.

Between 1987 and now the Critical Arts Ensemble have displayed numerous exhibitions and projects around the world each with a different display about the socio-political issues. Also during that time they have also published 7 books translated in 18 different languages. Sources Critical Art Ensemble, 2000 winter, ‘Timeline’,  The Drama Review 1988