Urban Art Association

Based on the url alone I'm giving this one a miss

LOL.

Is this your site chav?

you have to get a scanner form a till at tescos express, connect it to your phone, find the art, scan the code on it, then you can order one and pay, then you will get it in 14 days.

Easy

Ps. been drinking for the last 8 hours so if i have any of this wrong, then tough shit

Oh dear. And I thought putting your website address on your piece was questionable!

Thinking back I saw some of these on a wall directly opposite Urban Angel above a load of pasteups when I was at the Part2 show last month.

do you guys understand what it is, because i think i know...

if an artist does a bit of art on the street, like eine for instance. They put a QR code next to the piece, you scan it and it tells you how much the piece would be AS AN ORIGINAL or PRINT.

its not literally taking pieces off the street.

For those of you who dont know qr code, you take a picture of it and your phone decodes it into a message you then read.

if this is the case and this is how i saw it..its a pretty good idea.

it blurs the line once again between street art and advertising

stick your work on the streets for everyone to enjoy, if its any good, then people will find u

I know i will regret asking this but what is QR?. Also, while i was looking for a barcode on my mobile telephone earlier after reading about this i think i have accidentally connected some kind of speaker phone as when i open it now its all loud? how to turn it off? its only a Hello Moto, one of those thin jobs.

to put it into simple terms wiz


its a barcode your mobile phone reads.

thats done wiz... ive been in a house where the fridge re-orders the food.

no shit.

Not much longer before this becomes a reality:

Just imagine passing a street piece and been greeted by an ad replacing Gap with a gallery and tank tops with an artist.

I just don't understand the concept of this, if you have to physically visit this big advertisment piece of art to scan it then purchase it, why not just use the traditional route of visiting a gallery and paying for it with your credit card, for one you would be able to see the finished article and EXACTLY what you were buying, and secondly you would help keep what I anticipate to be a fuckload of complete dogshit gallery funded advertisment type tripe off the streets, someone is attempting to use the latest technology as a vehicle to make a few quid, but they have picked the wrong road to go down in my opinion, the more I see crap like this the more I am starting to sympathise with the whole say no to artfags movement!

The whole thing leaves a bad taste in my brain. I could understand the technology being used on an advertising hoarding for the latest superfluous shoe or handbag but not on street pieces.

I'm spending my entire long easter weekend doing what I love, which is painting a piece on the street. It's not going to be directly in public view, or in a trendy area. It won't have my web address on it and I won't even sign it.

At a later date I may choose to paint it as a canvas but I may not and if I did sell it the money would be used towards going to pay my bills for another month so I can continue to paint on the street. In the last three years I've painted over 200 individually unique hand painted street pieces and of that I've only painted under 10 as mainly one off canvases (half of which were requested as commissions) and released none of them as prints.

Maybe something for other artists in the scene to think about;?

I really think this is an awful idea, but then i hate any type of advertising being rammed down my throat, and this is the same but disguised as street art. This goes against the very idea of street art, where an artist puts up work for the sole reason of putting up a piece and enjoyment from painting. This will just encourage more 3rd rate crap to appear on the street but this time with price tags!

that's true Freerange but it usally only takes a matter of minutes before someone who knows who the artist is, or the gallery that represents them or even the artist themselves to respond. Which is a human connection and you get to learn a hell of a lot more including seeing more of the artists street/gallery works, meeting and conversing with fellow lovers of the works and even learning the artists motives behind the piece or building a relationship with the artist themselves.

that's exactly it, too much overselling/commodification as it is which is now putting a lot of people off and is one of the main factors responsible for the current backlash against street art.

You can guarantee that is if you see a street piece by a lot of artists it's just a precursor to an upcoming release as an editioned canvas and/or a print release in x number of colour variations or to promote a gallery show where aforementioned items will be for sale.

The ratio is way off with a lot of artists having a 1 to 1 image ratio of street to canvas/print release.

Here's a novel idea, just because you spent time cutting a stencil out doesn't mean to say you need to repeatedly use it ad infinitum and use every image you use for a release;?