The word graffiti has Italian origins and is the plural of graffito, which in its translation means writing done with charcoal. Also called muralism , it is one of the main categories of pictorial expression of street art, where artists use techniques such as spray art and stencil art to paint surfaces such as walls, façades, and other devices on public roads.
Published in Chapter:
Street Art, Intersectional Feminism, and Digital Media-Art: Report on the Cyberperformative Artefact “Make Me Up!”
Juliana Wexel (University of Algarve, Portugal) and Mirian Estela Nogueira Tavares (University of Algarve, Portugal)
Copyright: © 2022
|Pages: 19
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-3369-0.ch030
Abstract
The chapter is dedicated to demonstrating artivist aesthetic discourses produced in converging relations between urban space, street art, intersectional feminism (gender, class, ethnicity), and digital technologies in a post-pandemic context. The research results derived from three stages: a survey of state-of-the-art study on relations between street art, feminist artivism, and digital media art; production and application of autoethnographic data in the creation of digital artistic artefact; and curatorship of video-installation. The analysis focuses on the case study of the post-digital art artefact Make me up! an immersive and cyberperformative experience that connects augmented reality (AR) technology, street art, Instagrammism and Selfiecity. The digital artefact Make me up! was launched during the “10th International Conference on Digital and Interactive Arts - ARTECH 2021: Hybrid Praxis: Art, Sustainability & Technology” in the historical city of Aveiro, Portugal, also known as the “Portuguese Venice.”