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Graffiti osana kulttuuriympäristöä : visuaalinen analyysi Super Best Friends -teoksesta
2016
Jyväskylässä kesällä 2015 toteutetun Kaupunkikerroin – tapahtumakokonaisuuden yhteydessä maalattiin kuuteen Jyväskylän Energian omistuksessa olevaan sähkömuuntamoon katutaideteokset. Yksi teoksista toteutettiin nimettömänä graffitina, nimimerkillä Super Best Friends . Maisteritutkielman tavoitteena oli selvittää tämän graffititeoksen positiota julkisen taiteen kontekstissa. Tutkielmassa kaupunkitila käsitettiin osana urbaania kulttuuriympäristöä. Yhteiskunnan valtarakenteiden ja sitä vastaan nousevan vastarinnan välinen kamppailu esitettiin kaupunkitilan fyysisen, mutta myös symbolisen valtaamisen näkökulmasta. Kaupunkitilaa ja siinä esiintyvää graffititeosta tulkittiin semiotiikan keinoin.…
La escritura sobre el pavimento callejero: Los mensajes de felicitación
2014
The aim of this paper is to study the sidewalk as a communications medium, especially in the urban environment. To do so, we collected a corpus of a thousand institutional, businessrelated or personal messages from the sidewalk. This corpus comprises slogans, advertisements, protests, affectionate statements, congratulations... From among all these sidewalk writings, first we collected and examined messages targeting citizens in general, and then focused on birthday greetings in particular because they were more numerous and also because they reflect social transformations.El objetivo de este trabajo es estudiar el suelo como soporte comunicativo, especialmente en las ciudades. Para ello, s…
Relation of Cute/Kawaii Aesthetics and Beauty in Street Art Production
2012
As an independent visual expression, street art won its position in urban culture at the beginning of the 1990s. Different techniques used to present ideas, such as spraying, stencilling, putting up stickers or paste-ups, doing site specific interventions and so on, allowed artists to develop them more carefully and with a particular sense of the public space. Since 2008 and Lewisohn’s study Street Art; The Graffiti Revolution, street art has been the subject of academic research on many occasions. However, the issue of cute/kawaii features in street art has not yet been the subject of extensive research. This paper attempts to find out in what kind of relation within street art discourse w…
The Effects of Transfer of Learning and Literacy: An Analysis of Graffiti and Sgraffitiin the City of Johannesburg
2019
The study examined the social effects of graffiti as pieces of writing or drawings scribbled, scratched or sprayed on surfaces of public toilets or bus termini. The study followed a qualitative exploratory design in which the researchers observed the messages expressed in the graffiti and conducted a discourse analysis on their effects on the moral fabric of society. Themes and perceptions towards some societal ills emerged from the analysis. The main aim of the study was thus to unravel the possible social issues expressed through this art of graffiti and sgraffitti. A purposive total sample size of 10 public toilets and bus termini was used for the study. Among the major findings of this …
From experiencing sites of past to the future of the Demolition Man and how graffiti fits to all
2019
This paper explores the possibilities graffiti can provide to research user experience, focusing in those that might emerge in urban environments. The concept of User Experience (UX) can be seen as a consciously experienced phenomenon entailing for example biological, psychological and cultural, spatial and temporal aspects. Graffiti can be used as a tool to study experiences and meanings in physical and social places and practices. This can be done by studying direct experiences while completing a task, but also for example by narratives and memories involving graffiti. As the technology develops, it is incorporated in our lives, becoming more adaptive and virtual. This might have a strong…
The Graffiti Storyline and Urban Planning : Key Narratives in the Planning, Marketing, and News Texts of Santalahti and Hiedanranta
2018
This article regards urban planning as a form of storytelling and argues that there is significance in whose stories and which storylines are acknowledged to belong to the narrative fabric of a place and how the stories of future districts are communicated to the public through narratives during a planning project. My focus is on the storyline that follows the activity of graffiti culture in the two case areas of Santalahti and Hiedanranta (located in the city of Tampere in Finland) during these areas’ phases of transition created during the redevelopment of former industrial areas into residential districts. In my discursive analysis I identify key narratives that recur in planning, market…
Graffiti and Street Art Research : An Outsider Perspective
2023
In this paper we discuss our endeavours and experiences in the field of graffiti and street art research (GSAR) in the form of a dialogue. We reflect on planning and engaging with GSAR, contemplate our (field) work, analyse the methods we have developed, and shed light on the possibilities that arose during research processes. In particular, we focus on what it is like to do GSAR as outsiders, i.e. as those who are not writers or artists themselves, or who do research into a graffiti or street art scene that is foreign to them. peerReviewed