Our heritage: where the past meets the future
In the European Year of Cultural Heritage the second edition of Mapping Street Art 2018 after the first call of 2016 which saw the participation of 87 mappers with 521 photos in 446 places.
#Europeforculture, #sharingheritage #Patrimonio2018
Winners
Call
Street art is the form of art that mostly “reflects” the public space. In our experience urban drawings, posters, stencils, stickers, kitting, road signs and much more tells us of underground stories of cities, of conflict, neglect and oblivion, of visions and futures.
An art that travels through the space, where new clandestine routes traced by migrant artists meet in different and far places. A variety of techniques (paint, acrylic, tempera, pens, paintbrushes and pencils, spray, poster, stencil, adhesives, crochet and more) combined to reinterpret the urban context they belong to and they interact in, communicating through it.
Differently from graffiti, characterised by writings (writing with spray) and tags (signatures and logos), street art is an urban art that is tightly knit to the place it appears in. While this might be the reason why it is welcomed as a tool to regenerate suburban areas, it is also one of the most powerful motors of contemporary urban exploration made of discovery and reinvention of space.
Its expressive strength talks about centres, suburbs, margins and boundaries, while the unutilised surfaces of the cities (walls, barriers, blind walls, abandoned buildings, doors, cisterns, road signs, railings and other) become amplifiers of messages that aim to reconquer the public space.
The objective of the competition is to talk about how this conquest happens, counting on the power of the places and all their possible transformations.
The competition is promoted and coordinated by Mappina – Alternative Map of the Cities in cooperation with
The competition is promoted and coordinated by Mappina – Alternative Map of the Cities in cooperation with the Tafter Journal and Cacciatori di Street Art Group.
The images of the competition issue under license open CCbySa – License with Attribution-Share Alike, will be reused by the magazine Tafter Journal and published in the catalog of the initiative.
RULES
Who | Participants
Participation is free and open to all.
What | Street art
Street art images, graffiti are preferred but not exclusive.
We will not accept photos with logos, watermarks or other imprints.
How to participate | Mapping and sending mail
To participate the author needs to follow a dual path:
- Map the images (with web resolution)
- Send the images by email (with good resolution)
A. Mapping of the images is done on Mappina App or website
Mobile App
Download App to Google Play or iTunes
Login and active GPS
Insert images: you can use the camera of the app or select them from the gallery
Localize: use “locate me” or enter the street and the city, once the pointer appears you can move it to the desired place
Enter the Title Enter category; Street art – Wall culture
Tag: 2mapping street art (you will find it in the list)
Save.
Site
Sign in.
Enter using the puncture with the +
Insert the Title and Locate it, insert the address (Eg Via dei Tribunali, Naples), press SEARC and, once you have visualized the pointer on the map, you can move the pointer to the exact place
Choose the Street art and Wall Culture category
Tag: 2mapping street art (you will find it in the list)
Save, you will see a screen with the camera icon, you can upload the image (we recommend saving the image with a web format)
B. Send Images
To have the image evaluated and printed you can send it to the following email info@mappina.it, in TIFF, JPEG o PNG format with the short side with a minimum of (advised) 2500 pixels and 300 dpi resolution or if from cell phone with HD resolution.
The image files need to be named as follows: “lastname_name_title.jpeg” or if you choose not to share your name you can name it “username title”.
When | Deadline
The competition ends 20 October 2018 and by 10 Novenber the winners will be announced.
Selection | Jury
The images will be selected by a jury and by Mappina’s community.
The jury will be diverse (photographers, street artist, anthropologists, sociologists, urbanists) and will select three images. Mappina’s community will select one image voting it in Facebook Mappina’s Page.
Prizes
The four pieces selected will receive as prize drawings or prints by famous street artists.
Copyrights | Authorization to publish
The authors maintain the property of the images that are submitted for the competition and they will have an opportunity to choose between the copyrights or the CC BY SA license on the Mappina website at the time of submission.
Moreover, each participant, at the time of submission of the photo on Mappina, will declare that they personally created the photographic piece, that they are the legitimate owner and that they are authorized to publish the photo should there be people in the picture. The author also authorizes Mappina to use the contents submitted, to share them and to publish them on the project’s website and during any other related event. For every shared content (text, images and other) Mappi-na.it will indicate the author and/or, in lack of a name, the username or any other indication of authorship.
The participation in the competition and the publication of the content is completely voluntary and the author will bear exclusive responsibility for any consequence that may derive from the publication of the contents submitted.
Mappina (without taking any responsibility of obligation) will monitor and examine the published content, and will partially or totally remove, eliminate, delete, at any time, from the website any content deemed inappropriate or incoherent. The decision will be final and the author will have no say about it.
Treatment of personal information
Personal information acquired for the registration to the competition, will be handled in compliance with the rights of correctness, legality and transparency, protecting the privacy and the rights of the candidates, even by electronic means and within the parameters of the competition procedures, to execute the obligations provided by the law and for the activities of Mappina. They can be shared with third parties for purposes related to the above mentioned activities. As for the information provided, the participants to the Competition can request to have the information updated, changed or deleted and can elect not to receive any promotional material in line with art. 7 of DL 196/2003 by selecting it on the Mappina website.
Acceptance of the regulations
Participation to the competition implies unconditional and total acceptance of these regulations by the participant.
