Spray without politics? Contrasting street-based perceptions and computer vision framings of graffitied Rome
Levy, Helton Diamanti, Eleonora
Levy, Helton
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The city of Rome has been a contested site for unauthorized graffiti since antiquity. Modern times have seen graffiti practices endure in their disruptive form and viral versions of digital street art. This paper applies critical, speculative methods to approximate distinct areas of graffiti research into a common framework of analysis. The idea was to offer insights into graffiti audiencing on digital and street-based spheres of perception while discussing the method’s limitations. After listing convergences and divergences between human-centric and algorithm-centric viewpoints, results revealed an interesting set of details uniquely brought up by computer vision metadata, but which, in turn, exposed limitations in recgonizing graffiti as a politicized practice with deep radical roots.
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2023
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Sage
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Graffiti, Street art, Urban communication, Computer vision
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Levy, Helton, and Eleonora Diamanti. “Spray without Politics? Contrasting Street-Based Perceptions and Computer Vision Framings of Graffitied Rome.” Convergence 29 (3): 766–84. 2023.