Gnovis article on Graffiti

Please consider reading my online article on Graffiti at: http://gnovisjournal.org/2011/11/21/a-c-frabetti-journal/ Here is the abstract: Driven by the need for the increased reception (and the conservation) of their tags, graffiti writers document their productions online on blogs, photo sites, and pro-graffiti forums. For the purposes of this paper, the term “writer” is part of the argot of graffiti; it refers to producers of graffiti. These sites, though accessible to the general public, are secluded, as they are frequented predominantly by graffiti enthusiasts and practitioners. Inspired by responses to his or her postings on such sites by an anonymous, international, virtual community, the tagger continues an activity that might otherwise dissipate from inattention and lack of audience. In this context, this paper first presents the performative nature of tagging and its essential relationship to masculinity. It then proposes some consequences of the virtual community’s new assumed role as the tagger’s primary audience.

review and discussion of masculinity in art by Rob Anderson

http://aeqai.com/main/2011/05/new-male-portraiture-at-the-carnegie/

Article on Keith Haring

http://aeqai.com/main/2011/04/harings-creative-approach-and-its-reception/