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Street art transforms the urban landscape into a museum-withoutwalls.
In street art, the interior and exterior spaces of urban space
become interconnected galleries of everyday life, confusing the lines
that separate public spaces and private ones. It is partly in this light
that the media theorist, Martin Irvine, states that street art occupies
a mediatory role in bridging institutional reception and counterinstitutional
intervention. But there is more to street art’s mediatory
role in hybridizing spaces. Street art’s hybridity moves away from the
naive syncretism of earlier art practices in that it is able to converse
with modalities of space that are absent in other forms of urban
interventions. Street art activates a notion of space that is horizontal,
vertical, and intersubjective. It is a transmedia and a post-internet
practice. It codifies the “open-source” function of the World Wide
Web, which means that the “street” in street art functions more like
an analogical approximation of the digitized inter-connectivity of
the virtual world. In short, the space that street art produces is an
extension both in literal and virtual sense. The space in street art is
an entangled virtuality of ontologies and mentalscapes.
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