DDArtS: Towards designing digitally enhanced street art tools

The increasing presence and recognition of urban art work in the cities around the world, the emergence of street artists with world-wide reputation and new artistic codes as well as the connection of urban/street art with design and technology, compose an interesting and multifaceted area of study and research. This paper presents the design and early implementation of a digitally enhanced street art system able to support the creation of large scale outdoor murals using aerosol spray cans on vertical surfaces. The purpose of this design is twofold: to offer great assistance in the production of street art under legal assignment, particularly in situations where economic, territorial and environmental conditions are restrictive towards, or prohibiting the use of auxiliary means for the artist and the employer, such as lifting equipment and machinery or construction installation. to investigate how far the boundaries that connect art, design and technology can be pushed while exploring the unique characteristics and capabilities of such a multidisciplinary approach. The implemented system aims to evolve the artist’s creativity and expressiveness by enriching tools’ variety. Future system modifications will bring about interactions of different scientific and artistic environments.

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Paris Xyntarianos-Tsiropinas

Thomas Spyrou

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Publication date: July 2016

Publication date (Print): July 2016

Pages: 87-88

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[0001]University of the Aegean

Dept of Product and Systems Design Engineering

2 Konstantinoupoleos st. Hermoupolis, Syros, Greece

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2016.19

SO-VID: 7157ef4b-a73f-4c41-a739-12f8e28c0531

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Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

Conference acronym: EVA

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 12 - 14 July 2016

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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Jerome Catz 2014 Talk about street art, Flammarion
C. McCormickM. SchillerS. Schiller 2010 Trespass: A History of Uncommissioned Urban Art, Taschen
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[1] Jerome Catz 2014 Talk about street art, Flammarion

[2] C. McCormickM. SchillerS. Schiller 2010 Trespass: A History of Uncommissioned Urban Art, Taschen

[3] K. McKinney 2015 The Street: Reinventing Art for the 21st Century Academia.edu ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://www.academia.edu/11962381/TheStreetReinventingArtforthe21stCentury">https://www.academia.edu/11962381/TheStreetReinventingArtforthe21stCentury 1 27 2015

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