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Community art, also known as "dialogical art" or "community-based art," is an Art form based in a Community setting. Artworks from this genre can be characterized by interaction and/or dialogue. The term was defined in the late- 1960s and spawned a movement which grew in the United States , Canada , the UK , Ireland and Australia . Often the work is based in deprived areas and covers all the artforms, but with a community oriented, grassroots approach. Often members of a local community will come together to express concerns or issues through an artistic process, sometimes this may involve professional artists, actors, etc. Often these communal artistic processes act as a catalyst to trigger events or changes within a community or even at an national or international level. COMMUNITY ART CENTERS In English speaking countries community art is often seen as the work of community Arts Centre . Visual arts (fine art, video, media art), music and theatre are common mediums in community art centres. Many arts companies in the UK do some community-based work, which typically involves developing participation by non-professional members of local communities. COMMUNITY ART AND PUBLIC ART The term community art refers also to field of Contemporary Art , especially practitioners of Public Art or Conceptual Art . In art world community art signifies a particular working practice, usually with implications of community involvement and collaboration. For example in Scandinavia the term community art means more often contemporary art project. ONLINE COMMUNITY ART A Community can be seen in many ways, it can refer to different kind of groups. There are also Virtual Communities or online communities. As well there is a form of net art that could be called online community art. Internet Art has many different forms, but often there is some kind of community that is created for a project or it is an effect of an art project. There can be also a group of artists ( Net.art ) who share interest on Internet art. Net.artists have built digital art communities, a linked list of these can be found in Wikipedia article Net.art (see headline Social networks). KEY ARTISTS
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