6th International ART and the CITY Conference 

Max Planck Institute, Göttingen

3-5 June 2024

Program 2019 & 2020

 

Program 2020
Lisbon University
 
 

                        9 July 2020

09H00-09H15 Opening Speech Tijen Tunali, AIAS-Aarhus University
 

PANEL I Urban Creativity and Everyday Resistance

Moderator: Tijen Tunali, AIAS-Aarhus University
09H15 Sreejata Roy& Mrityunjay Chatterjee, Revue Artist Space, “The Art of uneventful every day”
09H45 Samuel Holleran, University of Melbourne, “Painted at the piers: Deindustrialisation, urban renewal, and street art interventions at the Harbourfront”
10H15 Mathilde Vignau, Aix-Marseille University, “The use of sustainable development in urban creative transformations. Analysis of Chalucet creative neighborhood in Toulon”.
10H45 Ginevra Addis, UCSC, Milan“The power of artistic interventions on the wall in conflict zones as instruments for peace.”
11H15-1145 Break

PANEL II Rebel Streets, Visual Culture and Social Resistance

Moderator: Jeni Peake, University of Bordeaux
11H45 Angelos EvangelinidisUniversity of Graz, “Movement Posters as a form of visual culture in the Greek anti-austerity social movements.”
12H15 Jeni Peake, University of Bordeaux “Jay talking in the streets of Bordeaux
12H45 Philipp Schadner, University of Applied Arts Vienna, “Street rebels with a cause: Punks and their influence on forms of artistic protest”
13H15 Marilia Kaisar, UC Santa CruzSmartphones in the streets of resistance.
13H45-14H15 Break


PANEL III Art, Space and Place in the Neoliberal City 

Moderator: Nicholas Gamso, San Francisco Art Institute
14H15 Justin Malachowski, University of California, Davis, “Images of the Shaab (people): exploring the hopes, fears, and social media of the new political agent through the public arts in Tunisia.”
14H45 A.K.C. Crucq, Leiden University, “Community art as a platform for political agency”
15H15 Julia Pelta FeldmanNew York University, “Dwellings: Charles Simonds on the Lower East Side”
15H45 Jenna Ann Altomonte, Missisipi University, “(Dis)rupture and (Re)engage occupation and protest at the Venice Biennale.”

16H15-1700 Closing Speech and Discussion Dr. Todd Lawrence, Dr. Paul Lorah, Dr. Heather Shirey, and student research team Tiaryn Daniels, Summer Erickson, Hannah Shogren-Smith, and Chioma Uwagwu, University of St. Thomas, Saint Paul, Minnesota, “Landscapes of protest: Demanding social justice and equality through anti-racist street art in Saint Paul, Minnesota.”



                           10 July 2020


11H30 – 13:00 PANEL IV Graffiti Friendships, Zero-tolerance, Stencil Pioneers

Malcolm Jacobson, Stockholm University Graffiti friendships and existential visual sociology
Jacob Kimvall, Stockholm University - A ‘Cow-Napping’ in Context: From the Scribble Board to Zero-Tolerance (Sub)cultural Interventions in the Public Realms of Stockholm, 1968-2004.
Ulrich BlanchéHeidelberg University - Stencil Pioneers in the US

14h – 15h45:  Nuart and Urban Forms

Julien Kolly - Digitalisation of galleries (in the field of urban arts)
Tania Di Brita - A writer, an artist, a myth: Harald Nägeli, the Zurich Sprayer

Susan Hansen, Middlesex University London, Martyn Reed - Nuart Journal: Freedom

16H00 - 18:00 PANEL V Research, Maintenance and Trademark Law

Mathieu Tremblin, Strasbourg University - cover-up maintenance and restoration
Jaume Gómez, University of València – Graffiti and Urban Art in the internet
Eynat Mendelson Shwartz, Nir Mualam - 
How much control do cities want to have over their public spaces: a look into mural regulation
Enrico Bonadio, City, University of London - ‘Branding’ Street Art: Banksy and his Reliance on Trademark Law

18h - 18h30: PANEL IV New book launch
Wioletta Kazimierska-Jerzyk – University of Łódź, Teresa Latuszewska-Syrda – President of the Urban Forms Foundation- The history of Urban Forms Fundations activity - from decorating the city to cooperation with the residents



                                11 July 2021


10:00 – 12:00 PANEL VI Space Online, Digital and on Internet

Chris Parkinson, University of Melbourne - Converging Marks: The praxis of research, the academic and play within public(s).
Emerson Radisich - COVID19 & the Public Sphere: Physical responses in Hong Kong and digital responses globally.
Anna Augusto Rodrigues, Ontario Tech University - Pandemic PSAs: Raising Awareness on COVID-19 through Street Art

Peter Bengtsen, Lund University, - Follow me! Experimental methods for engaging with the world of graffiti writing.

14H00 – 15H30: 
PANEL VII User Experience and space
Diogo Almeida – UX Designer at Google (Tokyo, Japan) - 
Techs and the City

Jon Yablonski – author of the book - Laws of UX: Using Psychology to Design Better Products & Services (Detroit, USA)

15H00 - 17H00: PANEL VIII Post and Politics
Anton Polsky (makemake) - Conceptual Post-Street Art in Russia

Paris Xyntarianos Tsiropinas, Greece - The Dawn of the 3d Spray
Andrea Baldini, Nanjing University - Street Art, Decorum, and the Politics of Urban Aesthetics
Javier Abarca, Madrid, 
artist, researcher and educator - Graffiti is not ‘Art’

18H00 - 20H00: PANEL IX Closing Panel
Jim Prigoff, Henry Chalfant – Spraycan Art (authors)

Susan Farrell - UX Research & Design Strategy (graffiti.org, ex NNG Group now All Turtles)



 
 
 
Program 2019
University of Tours
 

                               28 May 2019

MSH Salle Polyvalente
8H30 Welcome/Coffee
9H00 Welcome Speech, Nora Semmoud, Director of CITERES


9H20 Keynote Speech, Ilaria Hoppe, Institute of Contemporary Arts and Media, Catholic University of Linz, Austria “Graffiti is back:About the Interconnection of Visual and Spatial Practices in Berlin”

 

Session1A: Art, Space and Place in the Neoliberal City
MSH val de loire - Salle Polyvalente
Moderator: Divya Leducq, Department of Planning, University of Tours

10H40 Panos Leventis, Drury University, Springfield, Missouri, USA
“Mapping the old city: Street art and community building in Nicosia, Cyprus”
11H10 Irit Carmon Popper, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel “Art Interventions as tools of civil rights in conflictual sites”
11H40 Mor Cohen, Manchester Metropolitan University, England “Ecosophical art practices in Israeli urban spaces”
12H10 General Discussion
 
 
Session 1B: Urban Art and Everyday Resistance
MSH Val de Loire - Salle 147
Moderator: Tijen Tunali

10H40 Sreejata Roy, Revue Art Collaboration, New Delhi, India
“Street art and every day: A Collaborative community art project engaging young women in an urban village in New Delhi”
11H10 Zeynep Ugur, EHESS, Paris, France
“From staging to enacting politics: The case of alternative theatres in Istanbul”
11H40 Justin Malachowski, University of California, Davis, USA
“Imagining the Sha`b: Exploring the fears and hopes of the new empowered political actor through the public arts in Tunisia”
12H10 General Discussion
12H30 Lunch Buffet (MSH Salle Polyvalente)MSH Salle Polyvalente
 
14h00 Keynote Speech: Julia Ramírez Blanco, Department of Art History, University of Barcelona, Spain “Activist aesthetics in Madrid’s 2011 camp”

 

Session 2A: Art and Activism on the Streets
MSH Val de Loire - Salle 147
Moderator: Roman Stadnicki, Department of Geography, University of Tours

15H10 Tijen Tunali, University of Tours
“But is this art? Artistic activism and the rebel streets»
15H40 Mohamed El-Shewy, University of Warwick, England
“The spatial and aesthetic politics of street art in post-revolution Egypt”
16H10 Irina Kozlova, The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Moscow, Russia“This is our city: Spatial structure of street protests in contemporary Russia”
16H40 Coffee Break
16H50 General Discussion
 
 
 
Session 2B: Art, Communities and Anti Gentrification Resistance
MSH Val de Loire - Salle Polyvalente
Moderator: Gülçin Erdi

15H10 Michelle Veitch, Mount Royal University, Canada “Indigenous cultural resurgence and creative city discourses”
15H40 Marie-Pierre Vincent, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France “Art and anti-gentrification resistance: the role of two artists in a local community market (Ridley Road market, in the borough of Hackney, Inner London”
16H10 Heather Shirley, Todd Lawrence, Paul Lorah, Martin Beck, Tiaryn Daniels, Hannah Shogren-Smith & Chioma Uwagwu, University of St.Thomas, Minnesota, USA “The urban art, landscapes, and community stories project Mapping art, narrative, and community in St.Paul, Minnesota”
16H40 Coffee Break
16H50 General Discussion
 

18H00-20H00 Opening Cocktail of Exposition Curated by Tijen Tunali
“The Art of the Oaxaca Commune: Right to the City, Right to Visual Democracy”
 


                                              May 29 2019

Faculty of Social Sciences and Economics, Salle du conseil (2nd floor)
9H00 Morning Coffee9H30 Keynote Speech:
Peter Bengtsen, Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, University of Lund, Sweden
“Living with Street Art”


Session 3A: Urban Encounters: Art, Architecture and the Public in the Neoliberal Era
Faculty of Social Sciences and Economics, Salle du conseil (2nd floor)
Moderator: Christian Gerini

10H40 Christian Gerini, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis and Toulon
“The yellow vests movement in France and its expression on the walls by street artists”
11H10 Konstantinos Avramidis, Drury University, Aegina, Greece
“Writing [on] architecture in crisis-ridden Athens: The aesthetics of destruction and reconstruction”
11H40 Mathilde Vignau & Alexandre Grondeau, University of Aix-Marseille, Marseille, France “Arts, culture and neoliberalism: instrumentalization and resistances through the case of Marseille”
12H10 General Discussion
 

Session 3B: Street Art Utopia and Its Discontents
Faculty of Social Sciences and Economics, Por B 2
Moderator: Ilaria Hoppe

10H40 Vittorio Parisi, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France “Neoliberalism and the death of graffiti: a “spectral” analysis”
11H10 Sandra Uskokovic & Boris Bakal, University of Dubrovnik, Croatia “Urboglyphs - Urban figures of memory”
11H40 Tina Bitouni, Lund University, Sweden
“Racist street art: implicitness, impunity and interaction”
12H10 General Discussion

12H30 Lunch Buffet (MSH Salle Polyvalente)

Faculty of Social Sciences and Economics, Salle du conseil (2nd floor)
14H00 Keynote Speech:
Myrto Tsilimpoudini, Department of Sociology, University of the Aegean, Greece “If these walls could talk’: Political street art from the streets of Athens”
 

Session 4A: Art, Urban Space and Migration Crisis
Faculty of Social Sciences and Economics, Salle du Conseil (2nd floor)
Moderator: Myrto Tsilimpoudini

15H10 Christy Petropoulou, Orestis Pangalos, University of the Aegean, Greece “Representing and commoning the ‘refugee crisis”
15H40 Geneviève Guetemme, University of Orleans, Orleans, France “Street art’s take on migration”
16H10 Vincent Lambert, University of Nice, France
“Palimpsest walls for an entanglement heritage: street art & graffiti against financial & migration policies in contemporary Europe”
16H40 Coffee Break
16H50 General Discussion
 

Session 4B: Artistic Intervention, Reappropriation and Self Organization in the Urban Space
Faculty of Social Sciences and Economics, Por B 2
Moderator: Julia Ramírez Blanco

15H10 Demet Lüküslü, Yeditepe University and Cemre Zekiroglu Sabancı University, Istanbul, Turkey
“Street musicians struggling to open for themselves a space in the city”
15H40 Iberia Pérez González, Museum of Modern Art in New York, USA
“TRAMA: Artists’ initiatives and Territorial Autogestion in post-crisis Argentina”
16H10 Gabriele Boero, University of Genoa, Italy
“The ‘Assedio’ project in Turin, Italy: a real siege to give an example of street artists’ resistance in public space re-appropriation”
16H40 Coffee Break 16H50 General Discussion

Optional: Gala Dinner at La Chope Restaurant (20h00) in Tours 
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