StreetArtandPublicSpace:ADigitalArchive

GeorgiosStampoulidis(georgios.stampoulidis@semio=k.lu.se)CentreforCogni=veSemio=cs,LundUniversity,Sweden

HerrenhausenConference:SocietythroughtheLensoftheDigital,May31-June2,2017

Backgroundv  Street art is a new form of art and ac0vism of

uncomissionedandunsanc0onedar0facts.v  Street art includes pain0ngs, murals and various

kindsofstencils,posters,ands0ckersappliedinanypublicsurface.

v  Streetartisnotsynonymouswithgraffi0(Lewisohn2008).

v  Street art is a sociocultural prac0ce (Bengtsen2014).

v  Street art is performa0ve, ephemeral, and sitespecific based on geographical space andsociocultural context (Bengtsen 2014; MacDowall2008).

v  Public space is crea0ve, communica0ve, andchangeable.

v  Thestreetartworkscreatepublicdialogue.

v  Crea0ng a corpus of street art pictures withrhetorical devia0on (conven0on, selec0on,arNulness).

v  Developingnewtheoriesandmethodologiesfromacogni0vesemio0cangle.

v  Building up an explicit and reliable taxonomy ofmul0modalverbopictorialrhetoriconstreetart.

v  Construc0ng a georeferen0al online digital archiveforgathering,analyzingandvisualizingdatawiththeimplementa0on of GIS (Geographical Informa0onSystem)technique.

Conclusions ReferencesDiscussionv  This p i lot study may lead to a lterna0ve

interpreta0ons of the mul0modal verbopictorialgenre of street art, and thus to a poten0al re-evalua0onofthedatasets.

v  Openandchangeabledatabase.v  Subjec0vity issue is a weakness; the interpreta0ons

are strongly dependent on personal intui0onsemergedfromtheobserva0onofthepicture.

v  Inter-coding process and agreement could bereliabilityequivalent.

v Moredatasetsmaybeintheprocessofexpansionorchange.

v  The datasets will be publicly available anddownloadable, including func0ons for downloadingXMLandJSONfiles.

v  Streetartissitespecific,loca0onaloriented.v  Verbal and pictorial integra0on based on various

semio0cmodali0es is a visual tes0mony, in order toestablishaspiritualbridgewiththeGreeksociety.

v  The interpreta0on of street art requires sharedsocioculturalpragma0cknowledge–Lifeworld.

v  Thesocioculturalandpoli0calchangesgivebirthtoawaveofpopularsociopoli0calwallcommentary.

v  Redefinedsignsandsymbols, intertextual references,andculturallyrelatedsubjectsreconstructthecurrentAthenianpubliclandscape.

v  Complex mul0modal verbopictorial nature of streetart.

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Researchgoals

ResearchQues=onsv  Has street art the poten0al to ac0vely transform the

public space into a communica0ve and dynamicsociopoli0calarena?

v  Hasstreetartsociocultural significanceaspartofourintangibleheritage?

IfYES:v  Howtheephemeralityofstreetartcouldbeovercome

withtheapplica0onofdigitaltechnology?

ProjectinCogni=veSemio=cs

Cogni=veSemio=csStreetArtProjectGIS

Linguis=cs

Semio=cs

Cogni=veScience

Rhetoric

Mul=modality

StreetArtStudies

DigitalTechnology

GIS–Geographica

lInforma=onSystem

StreetArt

Ephemerality

Par=cipatory

SiteSpecificity

Anonymity

ContextualInforma=on

LegalityandIllegality

ArtorVandalism

IntangibleHeritage