This page is intended as a list of references for research purposes. It deals with definitions of public art...
The simplest definition offered by ehow:
"Public art includes any work displayed within public spaces, with the goal of being accessible to everyone." (http://www.ehow.com/about_5468272_definition-public-art.html)
wikipedia:
"The term public art properly refers to works of art in any media that has been planned and executed with the specific intention of being sited or staged in the physical public domain, usually outside and accessible to all. The term is especially significant within the art world, amongst curators, commissioning bodies and practitioners of public art, to whom it signifies a particular working practice, often with implications of site specificity, community involvement and collaboration. The term is sometimes also applied to include any art which is exhibited in a public space including publicly accessible buildings."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_art)
THOUGHTS:
iteration # 1
it would seem that most graffiti is intended as a territorial ritual, rather than a form of cultural expression, yet it may be reflecting a culture of territorial assumption. The empowerment of marginalised groups through an act of defiance, which is also aesthetically challenging the status quo. Or simply a badly thought out way of claiming a small part of the city as ones own... Or is this what commissioned artists do inadvertently through a process of spatialisation and association within corporate structures in an attempt to appear to be consultative... are they just corporate taggers...?
http://mediafilter.org/caq/images/CAQ/Dump.jpg
iteration # 2
Corporate tags are everywhere. We become corporate tags ourselves after prolonged periods of employment in a corporation. We begin to speak like the corporation, because in a sense we are the corporation. This is a very sad existence for a human. It is a form of self destruction and self hatred. Ones identity has the potential to extend far beyond ones capacity to achieve and make things, yet we tend to restrict our ability to see ourselves beyond this.
