Street Art

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Street Art
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Whats the Point?

• The Obey campaign can be explained as an
  experiment in phenomenology. The fist aim of
  phenomenology is to reawaken a sense of wonder
  about ones environment. The Obey campaign
  attempts to stimulate curiosity and bring people
  to question both the campaign and their
  relationship with their surroundings. Because
  people are not used to seeing advertisements or
  propaganda

for which the motive is not obvious frequent and
novel encounters with Obey propaganda provoke
thought and possible frustration nevertheless
revitalizing the viewers perception and
attention to detail. The Medium is the message.
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Origins

• Pop Art
• Graffiti

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Techniques

• Wheat Pasting
• Stencils
• Stickers
• Art Pranks

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I am an artist. I use violence as a way to
communicate. Damien Hirst

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Motives

• Taking back public space

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Politics
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Democracy Everyday Beauty
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Organized Art World

• Large number of people to co-ordinate large-scale
  pieces
• Agents, managers, galleries
• Public
• Networked Community
• Internet/bloggers/flickr
• Mutual appreciation, share sense of worth

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Mavericks

• - Majority are trained artists
• - Resort to street to avoid constraints of the
  conventional world
• Ignore rules of institutions
• - Oriented in conventional art

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