Artivism is a term that indicates the union between art and political activism, a combination that has a long histoy but which has only been defined more recently, in relation to the appearance of the first telematic networks in the 1980s, and then spread with the development of internet and digital culture. This second issue of “Connessioni Remote” intends to provide a mapping of the different practices that, from the late 1990s to today, nourish the paths of Artivism in order to reconstruct their stories and probe their forms, so as to investigate the most recent experiences with particular attention to digital and web based practices, intended as privileged observation places, not only of contemporary aesthetics, but of the processes of connection and sharing between artists and audiences, which then allow us to grasp and analyse the political impact of today's forms of digital Artivism.
