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Graffiti, Street Art, Urban Art: Terminological Problems and Generic Properties
2013
In the last ten years, street art has become a very important factor in the international art scene. It has become a precious object to buy and preserve, and yet there is considerable confusion about the generic properties and definition of street art in academic research. As a rightful part of popular culture and urban culture, street art is not pure and independent. It intertwines with different art forms and urban subcultures and nurtures spin-off production. Therefore it is quite hard to trace its borders. Street art is not graffiti. They are different visual expressions and even though they might share the same space, artists and techniques, they still produce visually and conceptually…
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…
Embodied graffiti and street art research
2021
Graffiti and street art research (GSAR) has become more acknowledged within the academic discourse; however, it has much to gain from theorising its methodological aspects. As a multidisciplinary field, GSAR has mostly used qualitative research methods, exploring urban space through methods that range from visual recordings to ethnography, emphasising the researchers’ reflexivity. This qualitative approach has, however, paid little attention to the role of embodied practices. In this paper we discuss how embodied methodologies provide multisensory research results where the experienced moments, the participant’s and researcher’s senses, cognition and mobility in urban spaces are connected.…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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 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.…
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…