Abstract
The issue of contemporary art in the last three decades and the possibility of developing, acting, replicating, experimenting, storing and reactivating art through new technologies has encouraged theoreticians to re-evaluate the capabilities and capacities of the art itself. I think that only art today analyses how our reality is constructed through media channels. For the analysis, I will use the Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art 2016 “The Present in Drag”. Today we are living in a world of image implosion. Since the world is rapidly changing with techno-images and virtual space, today art generally has not to explain anything, but it can, with the help of projects and concepts, create its own world and form our presence in it. Nowadays, subjectivity has become a technical construction, and the current myth of the possibility of creating live images through technical reproduction in combination with new media has become both a theoretical and practical possibility. With this work and with several examples from contemporary art I will show that artists who deal with current political problems present the situation better than mainstream global news carriers.
 
 Article received: March 24, 2018; Article accepted: April 10, 2018; Published online: September 15, 2018; Preliminary report – Short Communications
 How to cite this article: Riboškić Jovanović, Marija. "Contemporary Art and Politics in Exhibitions by Halil Altindere and Ei Arakawa." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 16 (2018): 113−122. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i16.258
Highlights
With this work I will attempt to demonstrate that art today considers the issues everyday life and points to the problems of society more precisely than any other media constructions or spectacles being advertised through global communication systems
I think that only art today analyses how our reality is constructed through media channels
With this work and with several examples from contemporary art I will show that artists who deal with current political problems present the situation better than mainstream global news carriers
Summary
With this work I will attempt to demonstrate that art today considers the issues everyday life and points to the problems of society more precisely than any other media constructions or spectacles being advertised through global communication systems. This boundary continues to move constantly.” When we have no explanation for a new state of affairs, we have the need to refer to past experiences as we worry about the future. With the help of new technologies, we become one-click participants. As Vilém Flusser states, today’s totalitarian machines moved into the field of communication networks, into the field of “tribalist forms of traffic” from the telephone and the Internet, to film and television.. Art as a critique of these totalitarian machines that use all possible forms of media to act provides us with new ways of realizing reality
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