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Indecline, stylized as INDECLINE, is an American art collective.. Members have said that the collective was formed in 2001 and is decentralized, with "dozens" of members in affiliated groups in several US states and a few foreign countries, [1] [2] and have characterized it as "[an] underground movement [of] activists, musicians, graffiti writers, [and] photographers". [3]
A new and emerging approach to graffiti removal management is Predictive Removal Management. This involves the use of a database of information regarding graffiti incidents within a city. This is often developed by the government or the graffiti removal service provider. This database is then data mined to determine patterns in graffiti ...
The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal (USA, 2001, 16 min) is an experimental documentary directed by filmmaker Matt McCormick, [1] based on the ideas of Avalon Kalin [2] and narrated by Miranda July [3] that makes the tongue-in-cheek argument that municipal efforts by Portland, Oregon to mask and erase graffiti is an important new movement in modern art stemming from the repressed artistic ...
In the 1990s, anarchist interest in the DIY movement and anarcho-punk subcultures also led to the rise of anarchist involvement in creating mail art – "art which uses the postal service in some way" – as well as in the zine movement. Some contemporary anarchists make art in the form of flyposters, stencils, and radical puppets.
As such, anarchist criminology calls for close attention to be paid to criminal (or criminalised) behaviour such as graffiti writing, "obscene" artistic and musical performances, pirate radio broadcasts, illegal strikes, shoplifting, drug use and hacking, [22] and finds forms of political resistance in behaviours and lifestyles commonly ...
In May 2009, on the instructions of Alderman Jim Balcer, Graffiti Blasters painted over a commissioned mural by artist Gabriel Villa on private property without the permission of the artist or property owner. A spokesman with the ACLU of Illinois said Balcer acted illegally, saying "He was elected to be an alderman.
In an effective graffiti abatement program, hot spots – areas frequently targeted by graffiti vandals – are checked regularly, with the overall goal of removing graffiti as soon as possible. The reasoning given is, that graffiti is an expensive burden for a community, [ 1 ] as it lowers property values, generates repair costs and can incite ...
[10] [11] As of 2022, the local company Portland Graffiti Removal removed graffiti for ODOT. [12] [13] ODOT's $2 million in funding ran out in 2023. [14] [15] The city requires building owners to remove graffiti within 10 days or risk a fine. [16] In practice, the code is not being enforced against property owners. [17]