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Week 3 (Feb. 9)

Street Art

Mark making and ownership of public space Public space can be:

• Bought and sold (advertising, corporate ownership)
• Curated, controlled (Millenium park, the cows; government)
• Claimed (graffiti)

Can't talk about graffiti w/out talking about advertisers' use of popular culture images, techniques, events to sell products[1]

Comment About Microsoft advertisements on pavement in Paris "Yes, I think it definitely qualifies as "publicité sauvage" -- unpaid and unauthorized. But perhaps it still slips through the cracks of the law since a basic premise in France is "anything that is not forbidden is authorized." Obviously nobody thinks to forbid things that nobody ever thought of doing before -- they'll have to amend the law with one of those clauses about "forbidden in all of the previously mentioned areas or any other public area whether on the ground, in the form of foam or mist, projected into outer space, injected into passersby or any other highly advanced or completely low-tech method that can be conceived."

Merchants of Cool, Ch. 2, Under the Radar Marketing[2]

co-opting transgression

  *Ray Ban as sunglasses of choice of protesters [3] 
  *coke on train [4] 
  

distinction between grafitti art and advertising less obvious [5]

Responses:

• welcomed by the art establishment (Paris):[6]
• Ad Modification/obfuscation (Light Criticism) [7]

Lecture/discussion

memorials and manipulations

Reading

Rose, Barbara. “Art as Experience, Environment, Process” in Pavilion, Experiments in Art and Technology, pp. 60-104