scholarly journals Dual Place of Street Art – the City vs the Internet

2017 ◽  
pp. 99-109
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Gralińska-Toborek
Keyword(s):  
Street Art ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Direct Experience ◽  
Physical Sense ◽  
Urban Art ◽  
Common Space ◽  
The World ◽  
The City

Street art (or more broadly urban art), as the name suggests, has its own specific place, which is the street. However one would be mistaken to think that this type of art can only be seen there. Most street art lovers know the works of their favourite artists primarily through the Internet, not only because this kind of art is ephemeral or not easily accessible (for example, due to its dangerous or exotic locations), but because it is perhaps the best documented art that has been created in the world. For artists and lovers of street art, the Internet has become a common space to share photos. More often than not, the Internet also becomes the only place where artistic ideas exist. Paradoxically, such art, which was supposed to be the nearest to the viewer in the physical sense, has become the nearest in the virtual sense. One can, however, hope that neither consumers of art. nor artists will have to give up their direct experience of art that builds our polysensory sensitivity.

scholarly journals Internet Control and Auto-regulation in Singapore

2002 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Terence Lee
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Contested Space ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
Internet Control ◽  
The World ◽  
City State ◽  
The City ◽  
Economic Development Strategies

This paper sets out to consider the use of new media technologies in the city-state of Singapore, widely acknowledged as one of the most technologically-advanced and networked societies in the world. Singapore is well-known as a politically censorious and highly-regulated society, which has been subjected to frequent and fierce insults and criticisms by those hailing from liberal democratic traditions. Indeed, much has been said about how the Singapore polity resonates with a climate of fear, which gives rise to the prevalent practice of self-censorship. This paper examines how certain groups in Singapore attempt to employ the Internet to find their voice and seek their desired social, cultural and political ends, and how the regulatory devices adopted by the highly pervasive People Action's Party (PAP) government respond to and set limits to these online ventures whilst concomitantly pursuing national technological cum economic development strategies. It concludes that the Internet in Singapore is a highly contested space where the art of governmentality, in the forms of information controls and 'automatic' modes of regulation, is tried, tested, and subsequently perfected.

Official Tourism Web Sites and City Marketing

2011 ◽  
pp. 152-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo Díaz-Luque
Keyword(s):  
Web Sites ◽  
Marketing Mix ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
City Marketing ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
The World ◽  
Tourism Destinations ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

Large cities are one of the most popular tourism destinations throughout the world. Business and leisure tourists visit these areas every year and before they travel there, they look for useful information on the Internet. This chapter analyses the tourism Web sites developed by Convention and Visitor Bureaus. These Web sites represent the official image of the city on the Internet and trough them tourism organizations can organize the marketing and mix strategy. The chapter studies the concept of a city as a tourism destination, the organizations that manage tourist activities, and the right marketing strategies to be developed on these official Web sites. The strategy begins with the market research to select the right marketing segments and it continues with the right actions from a marketing mix perspective. It means different options in terms of product-destination exhibition, price policies, commercialization, and communication actions.

scholarly journals Os Bois de Carne e Osso, as Vacas Sintéticas e o Pixo Urbano: Quando a estética de rua afronta a ética da “obra de arte” na cidade de Belém (PA)

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (54) ◽  
Author(s):  
Flávio Leonel Abreu da Silveira ◽  
Petronio Medeiros Lima Filho
Keyword(s):  
Glass Fibre ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
The State ◽  
Street Art ◽  
Environmental Disaster ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
Urban Art ◽  
Normal Life ◽  
The City

Resumo: Buscamos compreender os dilemas em torno da ação de uma artista que pixou a palavra “NAUFRÁGIO” no corpo sintético de uma das vacas da CowParade Belém 400 anos, evento internacional de arte na rua que aconteceu na capital do estado do Pará, no ano de 2016. A pixação enquanto uma agência de significativa inserção ético-estética conectou dois episódios de grande impacto no contexto paraense: 1. O episódio envolvendo “bovinos” chamado CowParade, no qual 50 vacas de fibra de vidro foram customizadas por artistas locais e expostas na cidade. 2. O naufrágio de um navio carregado de bois vivos no porto de Vila do Conde a poucos quilômetros de Belém, que matou milhares de bovinos (resultando em 2.450 toneladas de carcaças) num grande desastre socioambiental com repercussões econômicas sérias para as comunidades locais, já que os resíduos do desastre (carcaças e óleo) confundem as ordens do limpo e do sujo, do lixo e do asseio nas paisagens, impossibilitando o curso normal da vida no mundo urbano. Palavras chave: Bois. Arte Urbana. Naufrágio. Desastre. Amazônia Paraense  FLESH AND BONES BULLS, SYNTHETIC COWS AND URBAN TAG-GRAFFITI:WHEN STREET AESTHETICS AFFRONTS HE ETHICS OF A “WORK OF ART” IN THE CITY OF BELÉM (PA). Abstract: We look to comprehend the dilemmas surrounding the act of an artist of tag-graffitiing the word “SHIPWRECK” in a synthetic body of one of the cows taking part in the Belém 400 years’ CowParade, an international street art event which happened in the capital of the state of Pará, in 2016. The tag-graffiti as an agency of significant ethic-aesthetic insertion that connected two episodes of big impact in the context of Para: 1. The episode involving “bovines” called CowParade, in which 50 glass fibre cows were customized by local artists and exposed in the city. 2. The shipwreck of a ship loaded with living bulls in the port of Vila do Conde few kilometres away from Belém, which killed thousands of bovines (resulting in 2.450 tons of carcasses) causing a huge socio-environmental disaster with serious economic repercussions for the local communities since the residues of the disaster (carcasses and oil) confuse the orders of clean and dirty, garbage and cleanliness in the landscapes, making normal life in the urban world impossible.Keywords: Bulls. Urban art. Shipwreck. Disaster. Paraense Amazon

scholarly journals The use of Exoticism Concept as Adaptive Approach in the Representation a Destination on the Official Websites: A case of DKI Jakarta

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Desloehal Djumrianti
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Capital City ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
Portal Site ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Large Scope ◽  
The Media ◽  
The City

Representation of a tourist destination on the media which able to reach around the world is very crucial in order to introduce and promote it to the large scope of the public. The internet, particularly website is one of the media to let people recognise and realise a destination as the place to visit. A study found most tourists visit and explore an official website and then to respond as if they were planning to travel to the destination (Jeon, et.al, 2017). This indicates that the official website still plays an important role in tourists’ decision making pre-visiting. Jakarta, for example, as one of a tourist destination, at once is also a capital city of Indonesia, central of business in Indonesia and a modern city. Therefore, the concepts of representation play an important role to depict Jakarta as a destination, for example, the use of themes to represent Jakarta as a holiday place on the website, such as focusing on the traditional and modern Jakarta (Djumrianti, 2016). Thus, the purpose of this paper is to analyse how the exoticism concept is used through twenty-five photos and fourteen sections of texts on the official websites which last update in 2014. The study found exoticism idea is one of the strategies used by the Jakarta government in the representation of the city on the Enjoy Jakarta website and the Portal Site of Jakarta Capital City. This concept influences on the commercialisation of Jakarta as a whole a tourist destination.

An emerging art world: The de-subculturalization and artification process of graffiti and pixação in São Paulo

2021 ◽  
pp. 136787792110184
Author(s):  
Ricardo Campos ◽  
Gabriela Leal
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Street Art ◽  
Art World ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Urban Art ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Social ◽  
The One ◽  
The City

Graffiti art and street art have been increasingly described as an artistic movement, with a constant presence in the streets, but also in galleries and museums. In this article we use the term urban art to define this institutionalized category, originating from informal street expressions. In the specific context of the city of São Paulo (Brazil), most of the social actors that make up this art world have backgrounds linked to graffiti and pixação. These two urban subcultures are linked to informal forms of appropriation of the urban space through illicit inscriptions. In this article, we aim, on the one hand, to describe the features and singularities of urban art as an emerging art world and, on the other, to understand how careers are developed in this universe. The empirical data derives from a qualitative research (in-depth interviews and ethnographic observation) developed during the past three years.

scholarly journals The problem of adaptivity of the street art into social and cultural environment of the city (Ukrainian context)

2021 ◽  
pp. 12-16
Author(s):  
M. Zhyhailo
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Street Art ◽  
Cultural Environment ◽  
Art Integration ◽  
Urban Art ◽  
City Environment ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City

The purpose of the article is to carry out cultorologic comprehension of the adaptivity of the street art into social and cultural environment of the Ukrainian city and to define the directions of the city environment humanization. The topicality of the article. The street art became the inherent part of the social and cultural environment of the city, the ground for artistic self­expression, visual ring for discussions, conflicts and a means for promotion and branding of the city. Despite the humanization of the city environment, the issue of adaptivity of the street art into social and cultural environment of the city remains still urgent and open. The methodology is based on application of the hermeneutic interpretation (to define the notion of the “street art” at the modern stage of research), comparative analysis (with the purpose to detect the peculiarities of the process of the street art integration into the cultural landscape of the city environment), structural and functional method (to clarify the prospective adaptation directions of the urban art into the urban cultural environment), axiological approach (to define the role of the street art in the cultural and artificial development of the city). The central position in the research is allotted to culturological approach allowing to clarify the specific features of the street art adaptivity into social and cultural environment of the city, to reveal the peculiarities of the multicultural city environment formation. The scientific novelty lies in theoretic comprehension of the process of the street art adaptivity into social and cultural environment of the city and detection of the priority ways of the urban art integration into the cultural matrix of the city. The results. Variability of the street art interpretation in the context of the city environment was considered. The specifics of the street art existence at the modern stage of the research was defined. The prospective directions of the urban art integration into the cultural landscape of the city was traced: differentiation at the legislative level of the notions “street art” and “vandalism”, application of the urban art in design of the city environment and creation of the city brand, application of the information and communication technologies in creation of the artistic objects, tourist guides, etc. The practical significance. The research results may be used in training the higher education applicants in the social and art fields of knowledge, for example, lecture materials of the disciplines aimed at the study of ХХІ century culture, mass culture, urban science, etc.

scholarly journals Paris, « un lieu centre de tous les centres ». Est-ce toujours d’actualité ?

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 435-442
Author(s):  
Anne-Marie Le Baillif
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New Media ◽  
French Language ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Past ◽  
Greenwich Meridian ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
World Centre ◽  
The City

Paris, “The Centre of All Centres”. Is It Still the Case? In La République Mondiale des Lettres published in 1999 and 2008, Ms. Casanova wrote: “Paris is the Greenwich meridian for literature” for the 19th and 20th centuries. Writers and artists have come to the city in the past because it was extremely attractive for creative and economic reasons. But at the beginning of the 21st century, with the rise of the New Media for writing, publishing and diffusing, is it correct to say that Paris is still supreme? Is location more important than the time devoted to writing and reading? The claims on which Ms. Casanova builds her assertions are not supported by the facts of recent history and geography. She refers to “La belle santé économique et la liberté” in Paris but she forgot to mention why artists came from central Europe. It was just because the life was cheaper in Paris than in Berlin, as Walter Benjamin observed in 1926. She notes that Paris was the world centre for high fashion and that writers came together there to be inspired by the place and each other. But these things are no longer true: Paris is one of the most unaffordable cities in the world. Fashion in clothes is determined in many centres, with fashion weeks held in New York, Milan and China; aesthetics no longer depend on a single country. Literary creativity has spread across many continents and the internet and social media provide access to millions of people around the globe. Globalisation has unified the world, note Jean-Philippe Toussaint and Sylvain Tesson, and brought the standardization of cultures. There is also the matter of the dominant language today. The French language has not changed since Ms. Casanova was doing her research, but French writers now dream of being translated into English to reach the largest audience around the world. Publishers also favour English to make the most profit because literature and art are now worldwide commodities. Writers and researchers use the Internet, which connects them with documents, libraries and people all over the world. Newspapers such as Le Monde and Le Figaro in France provide literary reviews from around the world; for example, Histoire de la Traduction Littéraire en Europe Médiane, compiled by Antoine Chalvin, Marie Vrinat-Nikolov, Jean-Léon Muller and Katre Talviste, was written up in Cahiers Littéraires du Monde. What about the readership? If publishing and merchandizing are accelerating and globalizing because of how the Internet changes time and distance, the writer still has to follow the rhythm of the subject.

EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS FOR SMART CITIES

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (02) ◽  
pp. 19-24
Author(s):  
Vishv Patel ◽  
Devansh Shah ◽  
Nishant Doshi
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The World ◽  
Iot Devices ◽  
The City ◽  
The Internet Of Things ◽  
Day By Day

The large deployment of the Internet of Things (IoT) is empowering Smart City tasks and activities everywhere throughout the world. Items utilized in day-by-day life are outfitted with IoT devices and sensors to make them interconnected and connected with the internet. Internet of Things (IoT) is a vital piece of a smart city that tremendously impact on all the city sectors, for example, governance, healthcare, mobility, pollution, and transportation. This all connected IoT devices will make the cities smart. As different smart city activities and undertakings have been propelled in recent times, we have seen the benefits as well as the risks. This paper depicts the primary challenges and weaknesses of applying IoT innovations dependent on smart city standards. Moreover, this paper points the outline of the technologies and applications of the smart cities.

scholarly journals Graffiti

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrzej Zieleniec
Keyword(s):  
Antisocial Behavior ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
The United States ◽  
Street Art ◽  
Urban Art ◽  
Urban Decay ◽  
Youth Subculture ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

Graffiti has a long history. There are many examples from the history of human cultures of signs and symbols left on walls as remnants of human presence. However, the origins of modern graffiti reside in the explosion of creative activity associated with the development of urban cultural expression among marginalized individuals, groups, and communities in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Graffiti has expanded in form and content as well as geography to become an almost universal urban phenomenon. It is a ubiquitous feature of cities and an adornment of the modern urban landscape. It has developed beyond its original expression and identification with lettering and spray paint to now encompass a range of media and practices that are associated with street art. Graffiti in particular, but also street art, has engendered contrasting opinions and reactions about its effect, meaning, and value. It elicits a variety of responses both positive and negative. Is it art or is it crime? Is it a creative expression or resistance to dominant urban design discourses and management? Is it vandalism? Is it the result of deviant youthful and antisocial behavior? It has been linked to urban decay and community decline as well as regeneration and gentrification. Graffiti writers and street artists have been criminalized, while others have been lauded and promoted within the commodified world of the art market. The popularity and spread of graffiti as a global phenomenon have led to an increasing academic, artistic, and practitioner literature on graffiti that covers a range of issues, perspectives, and approaches (identity, youth, subculture, gender, antisocial behavior, vandalism, gangs, territoriality, policing and crime, urban art, aesthetics, commodification, etc.). The worlds of graffiti and street art are therefore complex and have provoked debate, conflict and response from those who view them as forms of urban blight as well as from those who perceive them as an expression of (sub)cultural creativity and representative of urban vibrancy and dynamism. The study of who does graffiti and street art, as well as why, where, and when they do graffiti and street art, can help develop our understanding of the competing and contrasting experiences and uses of the city, of urban space, of culture, of design, and of governance. Graffiti is therefore also the focus for social policy initiatives aimed at youth and urban/community regeneration as well as the development and exercise of criminal justice strategies.

scholarly journals Pichação/Graffitti em Santa Maria: Sistemas Classificatórios, Transbordamentos Semânticos e Maneiras de Narrar a Cidade

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (47) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Nathan Romanus Dantas
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Classification Systems ◽  
Street Art ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
The North ◽  
The World ◽  
The City ◽  
Santa Maria ◽  
Preliminary Phase

Este artigo apresenta alguns itinerários de campo da pesquisa etnográfica que desenvolvi no mestrado, na qual busquei a compreensão de como se dá a construção da inteligibilidade dos acontecimentos acerca da pichação/graffiti em Santa Maria. Trato sobre a fase preliminar da observação participante, a partir de uma loja de street art, experiência que sublinha a importância dos laços de reciprocidade e a lógica dos sistemas classificatórios (as maneiras de colocar o mundo em estrutura, de ordenar intelectivamente o caos sensível) na pichação/graffiti. Dessa experiência indoor, desdobram-se outros cenários de interação com pichadores/grafiteiros, pelas ruas, dentre os quais destaco um domingo na zona norte. A partir do trabalho de campo e de uma leitura pós estruturalista do estrtuturalismo, percebe-se as inversões, as recombinações e os transbordamentos semânticos das categorias binárias (legal/ilegal, limpo/sujo, certo/errado, luz/sombra, belo/feio, visível/invisível...) do ato universal de classificar e, sobretudo, diferentes maneiras de construir os sentidos de viver e de narrar a cidade, a partir da pichação/graffiti. Palavras-chave Pichação/graffiti. Sistemas classificatórios. Transbordamentos semânticos. Reciprocidade. Cidade. PICHAÇÃO/GRAFFITI IN SANTA MARIA:CLASSIFYING SYSTEMS, SEMANTICAL OVERFLOWS AND WAYS TO NARRATE THE CITY.   Abstract This article presents some itineraries of the ethnographic research that I developed in the master degree, in which I sought to understand the construction of the intelligibility of the events about the pichação/graffiti in Santa Maria. I write about the preliminary phase of participant observation, starting in a street art shop, an experience that underlines the importance of reciprocal ties and the logic of classificatory systems (the ways of putting the world in structure, of ordering the sensitive chaos intellectively) around the pichação/graffiti. From this indoor experience to other scenarios of interaction with pichadores/graffiti artists, through the streets, among which I highlight a Sunday in the north zone of the city. Since the fieldwork and a post-structuralist point of view about estrtuturalism, we can see inversions, recombinations and semantic overflows of binary categories (legal / illegal, clean / dirty, right / wrong, light / shadow, beautiful / ugly , visible / invisible ...) of the universal act of classifying and, above all, different ways of constructing the senses of living and narrating the city, around the pichação/graffiti. Keywords Pichação/graffiti. Classification systems. Semantic overflows. Reciprocity. City.

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