URBAN ART MEDIA DRIFTS

Coordinator: Claudio Musso (IT)

Graffitism, from its birth, takes place at the core of the artistic debate, for the cultural issues it raises as well as for its political stance.

The period stretching from the first tag on a wall or an a subway car in New York to the second wave in Europe – from the 70s and early 90s – already shows what can be defined a stylistic evolution. Particularly in the context of the initial spread of Graffitism, the competition among the players was named the Style War. Stylistic research in graffiti shifted from speed, accuracy and originality to the technological update of its means of expression, up to the actual point where a full-fledged “media drift” seems to have taken place. The spray was for a long time the preferred medium for the protagonists of this global phenomenon, but with the advent of technologies related to the projection, the Urban Art is not only able to avoid the creation of “dirty traces” and to overcome its space limitations, but as it can be shown, can open new paths for visual mixing, VJing and video art.

LPM this year introduces a new section to your schedule that is for all the experiments that link the principles of the urban digital technologies. Projectors, lasers, LEDs are the new “weapons” in the hands of those who act on urban spaces with the liberty and the resourcefulness of its glorious predecessors.