Baranseli, Ebru Selcan2018-04-092018-04-092017Baranseli, Ebru S. (2017). Art as a protest medium, new media effect and the banksy case. İnönü Üniversitesi Sanat ve Tasarım DergisiISSN: 1309-9876, E-ISSN: 1309-9884 Cilt/Vol. 7 Sayı/No.16 (2017): 264-280.http://dergipark.gov.tr/download/article-file/391239https://hdl.handle.net/11616/8345İnönü Üniversitesi Sanat ve Tasarım Dergisi ISSN: 1309-9876, E-ISSN: 1309-9884 Cilt/Vol. 7 Sayı/No.16 (2017): 264-280.The relationship between the artist, the concept of art and the art work which has been one of the debated issues since the beginning of the history of the civilization, now has moved into another dimension in the world interconnected with the global networks. The work art which has lost its aura and uniqueness in the era of multiplication has gained a different aura and initiated new debates with the rise of internet. Together with the introduction of the conceptual art the art work which has got its own problematic and message began to interact with its own audience. This interaction at the same time makes the audience as a part of the art work. The conceptual art work delivers the message by using daily objects and the circles. The illegal techniques such as graffiti which are usually seen as vandalism deliver the social criticism messages more strongly. The contentious art works attracts great interest by the experts and the collectors. These art works which have been titled as the Protest Art or Activist Art have been prized as much as with those works exhibits in the art galleries. These works which meet their audience in the streets rather than in the art galleries and no sooner than uploaded to the internet multiplies innumerable, independent from the time and space. Even though they are erased and removed from the application, they keep on transmitting the messages. In this study, Graffiti artist Banksy’s works which are saleable at quite high prices, but are not treated as legal, and whose messages spread into large masses through the new media will be analyzed within the context of the conceptual art. Keywords: New media, Conceptual art, Protest art, Banksy, Graffiti, Stenciltrinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessNew mediaConceptual artProtest artBanksyArticle71600