Identity And Diaspora Analysis

This is a fact that culture can shape and change our view of the world. The studies show that people from different countries and cultures see and understand things differently because their culture shapes the way they see and translate the world.

There are many factors to be considered to evaluate a visual art and then contemporary art that reflects artists’ contemporary culture and society. Since contemporary art represents the culture, beliefs, ideology or even –ism of us, and referring to a different background and experience, so it may have a different interpretation.

Identity is the way we express ourselves. Ethnic heritage plays a significant role in one’s identity, although many aspects of people’s identity change during life; for

Hall in his article analyzes two types of "cultural identity." The first one is Cultural identity as being (unity and commonality) describes the similarities amongst a group of people. He explicates that this type of identity inspires anti-colonial, feminist and activism, although we cannot use to understand the trauma of colonialism. The second type is Cultural identity as becoming (which is a process of identification, and shows the disruption in our identity formation), declares the differences and similarities amongst an imagined cultural group. Hall states that knowing this definition is useful to comprehend the trauma of colonialism because it shows the social, historical and all aspects of contingency of identity. Hall examples the Caribbean identities (his own) to show the importance of first one, although the “Cultural identity as becoming” is more accurate to their postcolonial conditions. Hall calls the temporary positioning of identity as unpredictable and strategic. He uses the three ethnic of European, African and American and the Caribbean to illustrate the theory of "traces" in identity. At the end, he concludes that the Caribbean identity is diaspora

This theory states while each person is unique as a set of affinities, he/ she could be a “combined or hybrid” concept. He declares that locations and conditions of social and cultural differences effect on cultural exchange while It was believed that neither cultural capital nor location don’t overcome social exclusion.

The third space has been used in media arts widely to show the integrating of the first space or physical space and the second space or remote space into a networked place that can be used by many remote users at the same time or apart as third space. the participants of the third space enter the hybrid concept of physical and remote shared space like the electronic social space. Then the third space lets the notion of the real and the virtual to engage remote participants to having social relations at a distance. A good example of this is the relationship we have in social media like