Webwalls in Italy".

La Street Art racconta,

la Rete intercetta,
il Prix Italia esplora

Christian Omodeo

Sketching a web-based history

of Street Art
At its origin, between 1995 and 2005, Street Art
has generated different web communities.
It was more about sharing photos and documenting a
new urban practice, than selling artworks.
The most important websites were created by one
person or by a couple. They were amateurs, dealing
with
their
passion
and
overwhelmed
by
an
unexpected success.
Fotolog, one of the first social networks, was the
exception. Highly used by street artists, it
allowed both to publish digital photos and to
follow and being followed by your own community.
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Stradanove

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Graffiti.org

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Wooster Collective

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Stencil Revolution

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Ekosystem

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Fotolog

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Sketching a web-based history

of Street Art
During 2000s, a new kind of websites has arisen,
thanks to the interest of editorial teams into
Street Art. The USA magazine Juxtapoz (USA),
followed by Graffiti Art Magazine (FR), Very Nearly
Almost (GB) and Street Art News (GB) started to
produce and sell artworks of artists that they were
promoting. This scheme seems to be the best one to
preserve editorial independence and freedom of
speech.
Street Art website are no more the result of the
passion of an anonymous person. They are more the
fruit of the work of editorial teams, publishing
both on the web and on paper.
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Juxtapoz

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Graffiti Art Magazine

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Very Nearly Almost

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Street Art News

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Sketching a web-based history of

Street Art
Since 2010, Street Art has been more and more
linked with social networks.
Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and now Instagram are
now influencing street artists relation with
their public.
Street Art is now more than ever a consumption
of digital images to thumb up. This explains
the newly influence of codes coming from
graphic design and illustration, which allows
artists to produce messages calibrated on the
attention of viewers (2/3 seconds).
Neo-muralism is part of this WOW scheme.
Impressive seems to be the new trend.
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Social Networks Era

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98 Bowery: written words at

their best

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Urbacolors: geolocation &

collective intelligence

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Thanks for your attention

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