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Graffiti archive at ArtCrimes

Art Crimes - The Writing on the Wall

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Graffiti Yokohama

A large gallery of street graffiti (based in Yokohama, Japan)

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“Bombing” L.A. - Graffiti Culture and the Contest for Visual Space

by Saul Bolivar:

In recent decades, urban centers have become increasingly dense, literally and metaphorically. Population density is well understood as the number of people residing within a given area, and physical density denotes manmade features of the landscape such as buildings, bridges, freeways and the like.

But urban density can also be conceived more metaphorically, as concentrations of varied social and cultural influences, for example. Social or cultural density is the reaction and adaptation that occurs when one subcultural group interacts with another in the city. In this latter mode of conception I propose an additional aspect of urban density: the visual.

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Marginalized Art (a short history of graffiti)

By Esra’a (Bahrain)

I’ve long been interested in the study of graffitis as a form of inner-city literacy, especially since I grew up in a small village full of political graffitis that always made me think.

The word “graffiti” is derived from the Greek term graphein, which means to write. To write is to communicate. Therefore, graffiti was invented as a form of communication. It represents a type of discontinuous communicative strategy through which people can engage in a visual dialogue which does not rely on face-to-face interaction or necessary knowledge of the writers’ identities, such as being part of a society while maintaining your identity as secret, much like internet message boards.

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