The tunnel below Dr Louise's Bridge is becoming a regular spot for public art. Over the coming week, the tunnel will be transformed into a public workshop and exhibition space for Israeli street art.

Every day, the artist Know Hope will be working to set up his site-specific installation. Organized by Undervejs, come by March 12th to see the finished installation, a talk from Know Hope, wine, snacks and musical decadence from DJ ObernKarbi.

Niels Meulman or else known as "SHOE" the legendary Crime Time Kings is a contemporary Dutch calligrapher, typographer and designer. Exploring the contours of words as images, Meulman creates captivating typographic masterpieces by blending calligraphy with graffiti - the unique style he is famous for. His Berlin exhibition at the Common Ground Gallery also marks the release of Calligraffiti - The Graphic Art of Niels "SHOE" Meulman, an impressive publication of his finest artworks.

Tonight you will be treated with a special lecture from Meulman himself and Adam Eeuwens at Basement Bar from 8pm.

In parallel with the space's exhibition programme, an archive of artists and their works will be set up. After completion, it will be made available through various channels and publications (Review-Magazine, Annual Catalogue & Web).

With its selected programme and regular events, MAGAZIN succeeds in providing the space and transparency needed to make the works of young, up-and-coming artists, interdisciplinary projects and contents visible to the outside world.

By also making use of parasitical strategies, like pop up events in only temporarily open spaces, the project is meant to further establish its novel conceptions of design and space on an international scale.

In this year's programme, there will be three individual exhibitions, three group presentations, as well as workshops, open forums and an arts placement programme. Twice a year, exhibitions will be realised in partnering cities.

This scheme will see young Austrian art being made available abroad, strengthen the ties between domestic and international art scenes and enable the platform to be represented across Austria's boarders.

Infecting the City is a festival of innovative, high-quality commissioned and collaborative works accessible to people from all walks of life. Performances are not staged in theatres, but in sites like public squares, fountains and on moving vehicles, becoming part of the living flux of the city.

This year talented creative artists from around the world will investigate the theme HUMAN RITE, presenting collaborative performance works, art installations, choreographed pieces and public interventions that grapple with the knots, scars and wounds of the Cape Town CBD.

Audiences are invited to attend a series of evocative works of ritual healing - a transformative journey that celebrates our fundamental right to be human.

"A film about a man who tried to make a film about me" is how Banksy describes his first feature.

The British graffiti artist is renowned for producing iconic street art and fiercely guarding his identity to avoid prosecution. Little surprise then, that he was unwilling to be filmed by an eccentric French shop owner named Thierry Guetta.

EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP traces Thierry's attempts to capture the world of graffiti art in thrilling detail, following many of the best known vandals at work in the streets. We trace Thierry's efforts to locate and befriend Banksy only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner - with spectacular results. An incendiary true story of low-level criminality, companionship and incompetence. The story of how one man set out to film the un-filmable. And failed.

The London newspaper 'The Times' once called Banksy "the true people's painter". His black-and-white images of kissing policemen and rioters throwing flowers are now popular icons. Banksy's work can be seen on walls from post-hurricane New Orleans to the Palestinian West Bank. His graffiti combines wry humour with political comment - both of which can certainly to be expected from his cinematic debut, which he has dubbed "the world's first street art disaster movie".

Banksy began his career as a graffiti artist in Bristol where he was a member of Bristol's DryBreadZ Crew (DBZ) from 1992-94. He works free-hand and with stencils, latterly opting for the exclusive use of stencils. His committed works can be seen on streets all over the world as well as in museums (MoMA, Tate Modern). He has also created album covers (for 'Blur' among others) and has published his work in books, such as the recent publication "Wall and Piece".

14.​02. 22:30 Berlinale Palast
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Freitag 12.02.10, 19h

Vernissage @ Streetart Passage Vienna

BUSK (AUT)

Der Name BUSK, der im Englischen soviel wie Straßenkünstler bedeutet, sowie das Kürzel CMOD für „City Modification" sind Programm: Als visuelle Spuren bezeichnen diese nicht nur eine tatsächlich stattgefundene Grenzüberschreitung von Baustellenzäunen, Absperrungen verlassener Orte, schwindelerregenden Höhen oder versteckten Außenzonen der Stadt, sondern auch eine ständiges Einschlagen neuer Wege im Hinblick auf die eingesetzten Materialien und die entwickelten Formen.

Ausstellung 12.02. - 29.04.2010, täglich 00 - 24h

Die STREET ART PASSAGE VIENNA zeigt zwischen Breite Gasse und MQ-Areal Arbeiten von lokalen und internationalen Street Art-KünstlerInnen.

Graffiti Markup Language is the latest F.A.T. project. You probably know their graffiti-related software projects: Graffiti Analysis, Laser Tag and EyeWriter. These use now the Graffiti Markup Language, a new XML file type specifically designed for archiving graffiti tags. The .gml text files can be uploaded and downloaded on 000000book.com. The week F.A.T. will publish new GML related projects each day!

Very few are able to create such a strong association between the mood of the street and their art like Incubus Project. The streetart-duo from St. Petersburg is famous beyond Russia for their complex non-linear collage compositions that merge with their environment. This is not just stencils on the walls, but also the walls themselves, their face, communication, pipes, wires, trans- former stations - they are all part of the arrangement. The themes are mainly futuristic and by displaying ma- chinery they bring early videos by „Kraftwerk", a german technopop band, to memory. Moreover the purist choice of colors -red/black - constitutes another part of their expressive and longevity stencils.

In 2008 Incubus Pro- ject were already an important part of the graffiti & streetart "Names Festival" in Prague, where they presented their work next to other internati- onal leaders of the scene like Blu, M-City and Brad Downey. Considering the for- mation of the group was only in 2006, their participation was quite impressive.

Since their break-up last year all works are signed by street-artist INKY and they contain more speci- fic references to his per- sonal career. INKY gra- duated from the St Peter- burg College of Art with specialty in painting, and is now completing trai- ning at Saint Petersburg's Academy of Art and De- sign as an architect. Both of these disciplines influ- ence and drive the creati- vity of the artist, formed his style, and defined the themes of his work. Inky is interested in formal architectural forms and structures equally with leading graphics and pic- turesque.

ATM Gallery is proud to present INKY's first solo show in Berlin, where he will display a number of new works that were exclusi- vely produced for this particular exhibition and have not been shown in public yet. One can look forward to an artistic ex- pression that moves between socialistic propaganda and futu- ristic modernism as well as connecting East and West.

Brand New Banksy: Spotted in London.

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(via 9GAG)

Creating works that are often as sexually explicit and provocative as their collective name, the three artists behind Cum* (Lieven Deconinck, Robin De Vooght and Gäetan Begerem) met on the streets of Ghent in 2002.

Beginning with a stencil of a pin-up girl and poking fun at contemporary representation of females in pornography, Cum* has since branched out, shooting their tongue-in-cheek viewpoints towards various aspects of popular culture and their representations in the media, turning "trashy" low culture elements, like tabloid magazine covers, into the basis for high culture iconography.

Pool Gallery presents a collection of new and existing works from this trio of Belgian street bandits.

As part of the Vienna art week this internationally casted panel will discuss if so-called street art can work inside a gallery context, what is meant if you label art to be street and what exactly are these anonymous streets anyway?

Panelists:
Nicolas Chenus (urban art consultant and editor of »Graffiti Art Magazine, Paris)
Viktor Bucher (gallerist, Projektraum Viktor Bucher, Vienna)
Nathalie Halgand and Nicholas Platzer (founders of INOPERAbLE Gallery, Vienna)
Valériane Mondot (curator and director of Taxie Gallery, Paris)
Clemens Wolf (artist, Vienna)
Moderator: Doris Rothauer (Büro für Transfer, Vienna)

SpY, a Spanish street artist, has been creating urban art since the late 1980's. He prefers to call his pieces "interventions." His intervention pictured above is called, "Street Wars."

via The Art of the Prank via Wired

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Sixteen international street artists will present their work on the grand opening of the blk/river group exhibition.
For the last days they all created unique artworks along the Danube Canal and in the streets of Vienna as part of Austria's first street art festival ever.

As an additional highlight they've got the premiere of an exhibition with 24 pictures per second: the blk/river festival film.

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That the Danube International is also called Black River, has less to do with the river's water quality than with the fact, that the Danube comes out of the Black Forest and empties into the "Black" Sea. And, because the color black is not just a physical experience, but is also historically connected with qualities such as radical-ness and otherness, the Apocalyptic Colors team decided on the nomenclature of "Black River" for its Street Art festival. So it makes perfectly sense, that the majority of the outdoor-projects take place at the Danube-canal.

The three pillars of the festival are its many outer projects; a film series; and a group exhibition. The project focuses exclusively on artists from three continents, whose work stands in the forefront in terms of expanding the concept of street art - away from the pure, illegal art on the wall, to new media, architecture, the museum establishment, and also including the issue of selling street art.

An aspect also included in the Festival is the phenomenon of many of its representative artists attracted to the prospect of returning to the place where they began - the streets and walls of big cities.

Starting on 15th of October, vienna.unlike brings you an exclusive daily coverage from the blk/river project days.
Your daily dose of updates on the projects along the Danube Canal, photos and insight into the artists' and festival organizers minds.

Coem back daily and check out what happens, when sixteen international artists collide with the streets of the Austrian capital.






Calling all Vienna graffiti writers!
Evan Roth will be doing a demo of his soon to be released Graffiti Anlaysis 2.0 software (which looks like this) at ofroom gallery on the 22st of october as part of blk river festival.

Everyone is invited to come try the system and capture his/her tag or signature into a 3D digital environment using custom motion tracking software. Tags will be displayed in the gallery for the length of the exhibition. (Non-graffiti writers also welcomed).

IMNACP (I Am Not A Cop Promise). - Evan Roth

Also on display will be work by legends like Seen, Phase2, Twist, Lady Pink among others.