Intro to Participation

The intro to Participation states that "the three main concerns - activation; authorship; community - are the most frequently cited motivations for almost all artistic attempts to encourage participation in art since the 1960s." This concept in hand with the class discussion of participatory arts via YouTube made me question as to what constitutes “participatory art” in new media. If the three main motivations for participation in art (activation, authorship, and community) are loosely applied, then one can assume posts on Twitter, Facebook, or YouTube constitute signifies art because to make posts on any of those sites and sites alike require you to be active, it gives the person some loose form of authorship, and each site considered a community of users. Although Bishop goes more in depth with the three main concerns involving participatory art, her elaboration on the subject still left broad and vague boundaries for what is deemed to be art. Through her interpretation, one could consider a house party as a form of art via its active members, collective authorship, and the sense of community, right?