Ecological Concerns in the form of Environmental and Urban Art

Ecological problems are among the concerns of the contemporaryworld. In recent years some artists in Iran have been using the new artmedia to express and understand these problems in order to challenge theaudience. Urban art, in addition to providing aesthetic aspects, can play amore effective role in raising public awareness of the issue of ecologyprotection through its proximity to interactive art and by consideringcitizen audiences as the primary target of such artwork. In this regard, itseems that the many commonalities between the new art media and theurban art have made it possible for artists in this city to reach theiraudiences more than ever. Studying and recognizing the ecologicalartworks in urban spaces of Iran shows that among the new media,environmental art is more aligned with the artist's goals and expressingecological concerns in the city because of its quick and easycommunication with the environment and the audience. Other media havebeen favored by artists. In this descriptive-analytical study, an ecologicalapproach is used to examine the reasons for artists' attention to new mediain Iranian urban spaces by evaluating the extent of their presence in theurban context and how they succeed in conveying the ecological conceptsin their creative works.