VIRTUAL SPACE STIMULATES THE NEW VITALITY OF URBAN PUBLIC ART
The progress of urbanization has brought a large number of people to the city at a rapid rate.Although the economic agglom-eration effect improves the living conditions of the public,it also leads to the loss of the sense of belonging of the public in urban cultural life.Urban public art,which should be the basis of urban public personality,culture and spirit,has lost its proper function in the hom-ogenization of urban construction.The practical application of third-generation Internet technology has been accelerated under the cata-lytic role of the epidemic.New media space concepts such as the meta-universe and virtual city have opened up a new social field,and the concept of"locality"of public art has also extended from offline to online.Virtual technology not only creates opportunities for au-diences to participate in public art across physical barriers and time constraints,but also removes the identity barriers between creators and viewers.The"publicity"of public art will be reactivated,and the public's sense of identity for urban culture will also have better appeal in the virtual urban space.