Search results for "graffitit"
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Expertise and becoming conscious of something
2022
Becoming conscious refers to how new mental content emerges in the mind. To understand this phenomenon, we studied how people experience graffiti by thinking aloud. In protocols, we found three types of becoming conscious: experiencing emotional and perceptual content directly linked to a perceivable object, non-perceivable or apperceived information content, and transformation and restructuring processes. On the grounds of the content-based study of protocols, we suggest that people can become conscious of either direct perception, apperception, or restructuring thinking. Research of the mind, which is grounded in analysis and explained by properties of mental content, can be called conten…
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…
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 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 as a Palimpsest
2018
Graffiti can be viewed as stories about embodied identities of the self and others which can be shared in intersubjective discourse, visual communication of varying content and motives, and utilizing specific technology and mediums. Graffiti’s palimpestuous nature, in its physical and symbolic forms of layering information, is present in production and perceiving graffiti. A creator and a reader of graffiti are both palimpsesting the work, acting as narrators of their own mental sheets. The concept of graffiti as a palimpsest can be exemplified for example in graffiti art where the interpretation of a work of art depends on the properties of the work, the perceiver and the social and instit…
Tavasta tyyleihin : kuopiolainen graffiti juurilta nykypäivään
2014
Tutkimukseni käsittelee kuopiolaista graffitia ja sen ilmenemismuotoja Kuopiossa. Lähestyn graffitia paikan ja teoksen näkökulmista. Selvitän, mitä paikat merkitsevät graffitille, ja miten ne vaikuttavat sen luonteeseen. Tarkastelen alueen graffitimaalausten tyylillisiä ratkaisuja etsien viitteitä vaikutteista tai teosten kuulumisesta tiettyihin graffitimaalauksen tyylisuuntiin. Tutkimukseni taustalla on ajatus alueen graffitin perifeerisestä luonteesta, ja sen mahdollisesta ilmenemisestä omalaatuisena ilmaisuna tai graffitiin liittyvän koodiston poikkeavuuksina. Lisäksi pohdin graffitin sisällön merkityksiä. Tarkastelen paikan merkitystä graffitille Kuopion keskeisten graffitilokaatioiden …
Pispalan feimi : turvaton maisematahra vai kulttuuriympäristö?
2015
Tampereen kaupunki on asettanut vireille Santalahden entistä teollisuusaluetta koskevan asemakaavan muutoksen. Kaupunki pyrkii muuttamaan joutomaan viihtyisäksi asuinalueeksi. Santalahden on katsottu rakennusperintönsä ja teollisuushistoriansa vuoksi olevan arvokas kulttuuriympäristö, joka halutaan säilyttää kaavassa fragmentteina. Teollisuushistorian lisäksi alueella esiintyy valtava määrä graffititaidetta ja graffitikulttuurin ympärille muodostunutta toimintaa (Pispalan feimi). Sitä ei ole tunnustettu osaksi kulttuuriympäristöä, eikä sitä haluta säilyttää. Tämän pro gradu -työn tavoitteena on lisätä tietoa ja ymmärrystä alueen graffititaiteen ja sitä ympäröivän yhteisöllisen toiminnan arv…
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Graffiti
2020
Emotions play an essential role in aesthetic and art experience. Graffiti is an example of urban visual communication, and it can also be understood as a form of art. Like other works of art, graffiti can evoke different aesthetic emotions in its audiences, such as pleasure, wonder, interest and pride but also disinterest, disappointment or embarrassment, and even anger and disgust—further impacting, for example, how they value this art form. However, few studies have explored what kinds of emotions people feel when they appraise graffiti. This chapter discusses emotions in graffiti using examples from participant interviews in the Purkutaide study. Interview quotes are assessed against the…
Empathy in Technology Design and Graffiti
2021
This paper discusses empathic understanding, what it means, and how it can be acquired. After an overview of some theories and models from the existing literature, two experiments are presented, where participants were assessing graffiti works. From the results of these experiments, it can be concluded that empathic understanding involves both embodied processes and abstract inferences. Furthermore, understanding can be based on perceived, mechanistic bodily similarities and movements or on folk-psychological inferences mentalized between the observer/empathizer and an object/empathized. Empathic understanding it can also be gained by recognizing and implementing learned bodily skills and c…
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