Building Art Crimes

Highs and Lows

  • Brett Webb Spray Street, USA
DOI: https://doi.org/10.48619/indigo.v0i0.972
Keywords: Graffiti, Hip-hop, Street art, World Wide Web

Abstract

This keynote address for the goINDIGO 2023 symposium is a personal telling of the author’s experiences in the world of graffiti documentation before, during and after working on Art Crimes (https://www.graffiti.org) with Susan Farrell. Art Crimes was created in 1993 and it was the first website dedicated to graffiti and street art. The paper attempts to highlight the risks to the practitioners and advocates of graffiti through personal stories and the challenges of organizing large quantities of images from diverse geographies.

Author Biography

Brett Webb, Spray Street, USA

Brett Webb (°1972) is a creative technologist actively participating in the graffiti scene since 1988. He has painted walls and given talks across North America, Europe and Asia. While attending the University of Southern California in 1993, Brett became one-half of the first website dedicated to graffiti and street art, Art Crimes (http://www.graffiti.org). Through the experience he gained working on Art Crimes, Brett has led tech projects for many well-known brands, media companies, and cultural institutions. Brett resides in the San Francisco Bay Area and is currently creating a photo-sharing social media app built explicitly for the graffiti and street art communities. He has been posting his photos on Instagram @spraystreetdotcom.

Published
2024-09-06
How to Cite
Webb, B. (2024). Building Art Crimes. GoINDIGO, 12-21. https://doi.org/10.48619/indigo.v0i0.972
Issue
2023: disseminate | analyse | understand graffiti-scapes
Section
Articles