Tha Call 2016 is Closed
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 SeiSMiC project – Societal Engagement in Science, Mutual learning in Cities (partnerCittalia Fondazione Anci Ricerche) with the patronage of the Biennal of Public Space.
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 website at the following web address:
- Find Login/Insert in the menu and sign up following the instructions.
- Once logged in your Username will appear.
- Select Insert, choose a Title, the address (i.e. Via dei Tribulani, Napoli) SEARC prize and, once visualized the map pointer, you can pinpoint the exact spot and SAVE.
- Describe the images, if you want to, it is not a must
- Choose the Street art and Wall Culture category
- Insert a tag: mapping street art (you will find in the list)
- Load the image (we suggest saving the image in a web resolution)
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 15 September 2016 and by 30 September 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 through the website by selecting “insert in favourite” (Love).
Prizes
The four pieces selected, 3 by the jury and one by the community, will receive as prize drawings or prints by famous street artists.
Exhibit | Catalogue
The winning pieces in addition to others selected by the jury, will participate in an exhibit in Brussels set up as the final event for the SEiSMiC project – Societal Engagement in Science, Mutual learning in Cities at October 2016 and at the 2017 Biennal of Public Space in Rome.
Another selection of the photos submitted will be published in the catalogue for the photographic competition.
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.