Complex has just published 25 Greatest Australian Graffiti Writers put together with assistance from OZ legend DMOTE.

Great to see an article like this in an international publication.
You check out the full article here

Help us finish our iphone app

We now need some help to finally put the app live for the world to play with. The app is close to 85% done and just needs some caressing to get the last pieces in place.

We can’t offer to pay for your help but we can promote you on within the app and whenever we mention the app.

If this is something you can help with or you know of someone who could, please get in touch via info[@]streetartlocator.com or on twitter @streetartloc

TED Prize Winner JR & INSIDE OUT from TED Prize on Vimeo.

Announced March 2nd 2011 was winner of TED Prize 2011- JR. As winner of the prize JR in collaboration with TED Prize have started a participatory art project INSIDE OUT.

INSIDE OUT is a large-scale participatory art project that transforms messages of personal identity into pieces of artistic work. Everyone is challenged to use black and white photographic portraits to discover, reveal and share the untold stories and images of people around the world. These digitally uploaded images will be made into posters and sent back to the project’s co-creators for them to exhibit in their own communities. People can participate as an individual or in a group; posters can be placed anywhere, from a solitary image in an office window to a wall of portraits on an abandoned building or a full stadium. These exhibitions will be documented, archived and viewable virtually.

You can find out more information on how be involved by visiting http://www.insideoutproject.net/

Latest Contributions
A big thanks to all our location contributors this month. We have been noticing some great images of street art going up on the site and the amount of locations is growing. You can view the latest locations added in the carousel on the homepage. We also send out tweets with details of the latest locations added as they are uploaded and these updates will also show up in your facebook feed if you like our page.

iPhone App Beta Testers
The big news of this year is that we will be releasing an iPhone app! It is a long time overdue but we are sure it will have been worth the wait.

But before we send this out to the world we are looking for a team of 50 people to test drive the app, give us feedback and tell us what is and isn’t working right. If you want to be involved then just email us and we will contact you with further details.

Facebook page
We have set up a brand new facebook page and need your likes! Like-ing the streetartlocator page will keep you up to date with everything that is going on. It’s pretty straightforward either head to the homepage or go directly to the facebook page and like it.

Street team
We are looking to recruit more and more people in the new year to become part of our street team to get out and about with stickers, postcards and other goodies and get streetartlocator out there to the masses. If this is something you are keen on doing send the follow the link on the homepage

Help us blog
Our blog is back up, and running full steam ahead. We are looking for bloggers from around the world to help us capture the international flavours of street art and reflect that in our blog. If you feel you are able to contribute a blog post weekly, monthly or even occasionally we would really like to hear from you.

Alternatively we are always on the look out for exciting stuff to blog about. So if you have something worthy of blogging then get in touch via email or on twitter @streetartloc

Opening on the evening of Friday March 11 and running until the evening of Sunday March 13th ‘Street lab meets Berlin’ is an art festival that deals in a unique way with contemporary forms of urban culture or rather, urban multi-culture. The second edition of streetlab takes place in venues and project spaces across Berlin’s melting-pot districts Kreuzberg and Neukoelln. A picture of urban culture will be painted through the exhibitions,installations, workshops and the festival’s highlight “Urban Art Circus” in the Heimathafen Neukoelln.

It is being held across 4 venues and will cover events from the Urban Art Circus to Exhibtion, Installations, Open Workspaces and Workshops & Jam Session.

Artists who are getting involved include Puppetmastaz, Mrs K.B., Alias, Angela Lubic, Dust, El Bocho, 44Flavours, FNord, GRL, SAM Crew, Trus, Wurstbande, Yukon, Saalslam meets street lab, Thomas Rottleuthner, Drumtrainer Marschkapelle, Daniel Hoth, Maik Martschinkowsky plus many more.

You can get more details on the event and how to get tickets at on their website www.street-lab.net

“Spraygraphic.com is calling for artists and designs grab an old vinyl record and be creative with it. Take the record and turn it into a piece of visual art for all to see.

We expect to end up with a gallery full of diverse, compelling, and fresh vinyl records from all over the world.”

The show will take place on February 26th and more information can be found on the spraygraphic website

If you are a local submissions can be dropped of at the Hoodlums in Tempe otherwise you can send your submissions to Spraygraphic, 1141 east vaughn street, UNIT C, Tempe, Arizona 85283. For more information on submission including submission guidelines please click here.

Paste-Modernism Charity Auction
all proceeds from the online auction of panels from the exhibition ‘Pastemodernism 2′ will be donated to the Qld Premier’s Flood Relief Appeal.

In light of the terrible devastation of the recent Queensland Flood Disaster, it has been decided to auction off the remaining panels from ‘Pastemodernism 2′ and donate all proceeds to the Premier’s Flood Relief Appeal. More details on this auction can be found HERE

The online Auction began: midday Thursday January 20th and will continue until February 1st 2011 at StupidKrap’s Ebay Store

Stupidkrap.com will be hosting the online auction of over 50 artworks, available in sizes varying from 3m x 3m to 50cm x 50cm, by some of the world’s leading street artists including:
Pure Evil, Copyright, Anthony Lister, Vexta, Bridge Stehli, SMC, Skel, Bunkwaa, Ben Frost, Jumbo, Zap, Simon Lovelace, Catface, Houl, Creon, John Doe, Numskull, Leet, Shannon Crees, Felix, Mini Graff, RJ, Bennett, Beastman, Numskull, Roach, Max Berry, Konsume Terror, Mason Marcobello, Sprinkles, Bei Badgirl, Deb, HA-HA, Uno, Urban Cake Lady, Bella, Marissa Ziesing,Tim Andrew, Esjay, Anton Benois, Tez, Rico, PigeonBoy, Mr Skel, Jake Klarnet, Half Star, Dboe, Olive Fortyseven + more.

Paste-Modernism 2 was held at Lo-Fi Gallery in Darlinghurst on October 7th 2010 and featured the ‘paste-up’ works of over 50 Australian and International artists. Presented by StupidKrap.com and curated by Ben Frost and Bridge Stehli, the exhibition recontextualized the medium of ‘Paste-ups’ into a gallery setting.

The first Paste-Modernism exhibition was held in the derelict site of Hibernian House in Surry Hills in 2008 – where local street artists applied their photocopied, hand painted and collaged works on paper, to the interior walls of the building.

The ‘Paste-Up’ is an ever-expanding and innovative form of street art, that involves an artist making their work onto varying sizes of paper and then applying it to walls and surfaces within their urban environment using wheat-paste or wallpaper glue. Whether as black and white multiplied photocopies, colourfully hand painted murals or thought provoking text pieces, the ‘Paste-Up’ is an immediate and bold contemporary art-form. The medium explores not only aesthetic values, but is often politically and socially motivated – which allows experimentation both by accomplished artists as well as people with little or no artistic training. This has loosely brought about the tongue-in-cheek ideology of ‘Paste-Modernism.’

Paste-Modernism 2 filled approximately 250 square meters of every available inch of wall space at Lo-Fi Gallery, with the works of over 50 Australian and international artists. Applied onto pre-installed panels and canvas sheets, the entire exhibition was removed from the space (in varying states of repair) – and now exists in sections at StupidKrap Studios in Liechhardt.

Links:
www.pastemodernism.com
www.stupidkrap.com

*UPDATE
The total raised for victims of the devastating Queensland floods by this wonderful charity auction was $8,370.26. Great work by all of those involved in this!

Happy New Year!

First up we have the details of a great competition with the chance to win a 2 year subscription to Graphotism you can’t miss it. Also the new add location process, our new facebook page and an invite for blogging partners and you don’t want to miss out on the ARTAQ awards.

Update to the add location process
We have been listening to the emails we get and have tried to make the add location a little easier to use. Check it out and let us know your thoughts.

January Giveaway
Need something to brighten up your January? We have teamed up with the wonderful people at Graphotism to give away a 2 year subscription to one of our friends. Graphotism is the world’s biggest, longest running and most influential graffiti art publication. Documenting the scene since 1990. All we ask is that you ‘Like’ our facebook page between now and 10th February 2011 to be in with a chance to win. The winner will drawn at random. Good Luck!

Facebook page
We have set up a brand new facebook page and need your likes! Like-ing the streetartlocator page will keep you up to date with everything that is going on. It’s pretty straightforward either head to the homepage or go directly to the facebook page and like it.












Street team
We are looking to recruit more and more people in the new year to become part of our street team to get out and about with stickers, postcards and other goodies and get streetartlocator out there to the masses. If this is something you are keen on doing send the follow the link on the homepage








Help us blog
Our blog is back up, and running full steam ahead. We are looking for bloggers from around the world to help us capture the international flavours of street art and reflect that in our blog. If you feel you are able to contribute a blog post weekly, monthly or even occasionally we would really like to hear from you.

Alternatively we are always on the look out for exciting stuff to blog about. So if you have something worthy of blogging then get in touch via email or on twitter @streetartloc

ARTAQ Awards
Now in it’s second year the ARTAQ competition is open for entries. The prize winners will have their work displayed in several galleries in Europe and The Artaq Bookzine will present the work of the award winners and nominees.

Entries close on February 18th. For more information visit the ARTAQ website