An edited transcript of my presentation at NUART Plus, Stavanger, Norway, 2018, published in the NUART Journal 2:2, 2019.
Ramo? Meet Ahab: Beat Street and the Migaloo Boogaloo
An interrogation of the legacy of the movie Beat Street, its relationship to graffiti tagging and larger transhistorical movements in the American psyche via a new dance, the Migaloo Boogaloo, published in Lo Squaderno no.54.
From Peterhof Station to Crescenzago: Agit-Trains and Grifter's Code →
Walls as fleeting surfaces: From bricks to pixels, trains to Instagram
MacDowall, L. (2018), "Walls as fleeting surfaces: From bricks to pixels, trains to Instagram" in Andrea Mubi Brighenti and Mattias Kärrholm (eds.), Urban Walls: Political and Cultural Meanings of Vertical Structures and Surfaces (London: Routledge)
Read moreCultural Heritage and Ficto-criticism: The Ballad of Utah and Ether
MacDowall, L. (2017), "Cultural Heritage and Ficto-criticism: The Ballad of Utah and Ether", Street Art & Urban Creativity Scientific Journal, Vol 3, No. 1
Read moreThe Grandmaster Protocol: Kung-fu, Hip-hop and the Klan →
MacDowall, L (2017), "The Grandmaster Protocol: Kung-fu, Hip-hop and the Klan", commissioned essay for the City of Darebin” s Writing This Place project
Read moreA Boneyard of Data: Graffiti and Street Art's Temporalities
MacDowall, L. (2016), "A Boneyard of Data: Graffiti and Street Art's Temporalities" in Journal of Street Art and Urban Creativity Volume 2
Read moreGraffiti, Street Art and Stigmergy
MacDowall, L. (2015), “Graffiti, Street Art and Stigmergy” in Lossau, J. and Stevens, Q. The Uses of Art in Public Space (London: Routledge)
Read more#Instafame: Aesthetics, Audiences, Data →
MacDowall, L., (2016) “#Instafame: Aesthetics, Audiences, Data” in Avramidis, K and Tsilimpounidi, M (eds), Graffiti and Street Art: Reading, Writing and Representing the City (London: Routledge)
Read moreGRAFFITIDOWNUNDERGROUND
MacDowall, L. (2014), “GRAFFITIDOWNUNDERGROUND” in Artlink 34: 1, pp. 16-19
Read moreThe End of Graffiti
MacDowall, L. (2013), ‘The End of Graffiti,’ in Borriello, L and Ruggiero, C (eds.), Inopinatum: The Unexpected Impertinance of Urban Creativity, Rome: INWARD/Study Centre on Urban Creativity, Sapienza University and Arti Grafiche Boccia
Read moreKeith Haring and Melbourne’s Street Art Scene
MacDowall, L. (2012), ‘Keith Haring and Melbourne’s Street Art Scene,’ in Mathews, H. (ed.), Caterpillars & Computers: Keith Haring in Australia, Melbourne: Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
Read moreI'd Double Tap That!!!: Graffiti, Street Art and Instagram Research →
MacDowall, L. and P. de Souza. (2018), "I'd Double Tap That!!!: Graffiti, Street Art and Instagram Research" in Media, Culture & Society 40:1, pp. 3-22
Read more'Melbourne' and 'Sydney' in The World Atlas of Graffiti and Street Art
MacDowall, L. (2013), ‘Melbourne,’ in Schacter, R. (ed.), The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press
Read moreIn Praise of 70K: Cultural Heritage and Graffiti Style
MacDowall, L. (2006), ‘In Praise of 70K: Cultural Heritage and Graffiti Style,’ in Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 20: 4 (December): 471- 484
Read moreThe Graffiti Archive and the Digital City
MacDowall, L. (2008), ‘The Graffiti Archive and the Digital City,’ in Butt, D., Bywater, J. and Paul, N. (eds.), PLACE: Location and Belonging in New Media Contexts, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press
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