GRAFFITI-RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL LINK-LIST

GRAFFITI-RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL LINK-LIST

INFORMATORIAL BACKGROUND:

Material presented being only a fraction of the 65 000 documents I autopsied during 22 years of work and viewing several 100 000 images and pictures that are the"foundation"of results that also are being offered here.No to talk about tens of thousands of calls,e-mails,discissions and what not that helped create what now is being published.

As the"motor"behind the activities of "INTERNATIONAL WORK-GROUP ON GRAFFITI-RESEARCH"(AG psychosoziale Probleme und visuelle Kommunikation)that started 1979,publishing first finds in 1980,I invested 120 000 Marks and at least 22 000 unpaid hours into the developement of KASSEL(Germany)GRAFFITI-ARCHIVE that has been used for FREE by ca. 800 students,specialists of all kinds and"writers"during those years and with our support GLOBALLY 1000 students`papers habe been generated.Most material now being easily available via LINKS and URLs now first had to be created.Term"graffiti-research"that now may bring about 15 000 entries via search-engines has been introduced by me around 1980 and now has become a GLOBAL ACCEPTED TERM.

This page will help further to enlarge this aspect by the finds offered.

WHAT IS "THE PROBLEM"?

Since you`re looking here for informations and we may assume that you alreardy know about the CULTURAL IMPORTANCE of the"messages on walls" we start our list with the ANTI-GRAFFITI URLS that are very important for the deeper understanding what this all really may be about.....

The results you may gain from this POINT OF VIEW will show you the IDEOLOGICAL influence of these sites that are being MIRRORED and MULTIPLIED in the INDUSTRIAL anti-graffiti-websites that count in thousands.Studying them is a MUST.......

http://www.infowest.com/ngin/

http://www.dougnet.com/

http://www.graffitihurts.org/

http://www.chp.net/tagnet/

http://www.nograffiti.com/index.html

http://www.metroactive.com/metro/graffiti/

They`re listed in their line of IMPORTANCE....

How politics influence the developement of POLITICAL messages on walls and how dictatorships react to them you may see at:

http://www.lakota.clara.net/derechos/perpetra.htm

from Chile.

How you may make money(the financial side of ALL aspects related to graffiti on a global scale sums up to 50 BILLIONS of $$ per year)you may look at:

http://www.polaroid.com/work/law_enforcement/docs/seminar.html

where you get a download curriculum ust to offer you one example of the possibilities.

In case you need some ANALYSIS of the background of ANTI-GRAFFITI MOTIVATI-ON you may read at:

http://moon.sooth.com:8080/ph.103

and in case you need facts about WRITERS MOTIVES you find them at:

http://users.aol.com/archive1/m.html

The"writers`manifesto"distilled from thousands of sources.And how the generation of ANTI-GRAFFITI PREJUDICES is actually working and what the effects (graffiti and censorship)

are you find at:

http://users.aol.com/archive1/ce.html

WHAT ARE THE KNOWN FACTS ABOUT HISTORY?

If you want to know about a HISTORICAL perspective concerning graffiti seeing they link us back to prehistory and the finding of communicable informations(on walls)you may read all there ist to know at: or: CACHED material via a search engine

http://www.krita.com/graf/

http://www.wineasy.se/m.i.c/graf/history

http://www.krita.com/graf/2.html

http://www.wineasy.se/m.i.c/graf/1.html

http://www.krita.com/graf/3.html

http://www.wineasy.se/m.i.c/graf/2.html

http://www.krita.com/graf/4.html

http://www.wineasy.se/m.i.c/graf/3.html

http://www.krita.com/graf/5.html

http://www.wineasy.se/m.i.c/graf/4.html

http://www.krita.com/graf/6.html

http://www.wineasy.se/m.i.c/graf/5.html

http://www.krita.com/graf/7.html

http://www.wineasy.se/m.i.c/graf/6.html

http://www.wineasy.se/m.i.c/graf/7.html

http://www.wineasy.se/m.i.c/graf/8.html

Similar material also having been put up(I now found out....all those many helpers)at URLs:

http://www.geocities.com

and in case you want an UPDATE as list already having been growing up to 170 pages in total ask for them.

An analysis of psychological(deep)motives of makers of graffiti as far as we know today you may read the TWO parts of"The deep psychological(unconscious)structure of writers"(part 1)at:

http://www.graffiti.org/axel/_5.html

that once was being made for KASSEL POLICE DEPARTMENT and the follow-up at:

http://users.aol.com/archive1/Aa.html

"The deep psychological(unconscious)motivation of writers"(part 2).

WHAT MAY BE KNOWN ABOUT GRAFFITI-RESEARCH?

In case you want to know about WRITTEN documents you find an OVERVIEW of the several volumes of"EINFÜHRUNG IN DIE GRAFITTI-FORSCHUNG/INTRODUCTION TO GRAFFITI-RESEARCH"at:

http://users.aol.com/archive1/

showing you the line of publication since 1983 in Germany.What has been developed since these years you may glance at a list of KEYWORDS extracted from "VOCABULARY OF GRAFFITI-RESEARCH"(7 volumes) at:

http://users.aol.com/archive1/A.html

and now you know some of the THEMATIC BACKGROUND and aspects that may play a role herealso knowing the material only may cover only 10% of possible material.....so still lots to find out.Using those KEYWORDS with a search-engine you may find an abundance of additional informatiosn in the internet.But keep in mind MOST important finds still only existing in only as PRINTED MEDIA and not yet as URLs.

One very important pathway for understanding also being all expletives and"bad language"and here a hoard you may find at.

http://www.sonic.net/maledicta

the famous publications by R.A.Aman(Santa Rosa,CA)which makes the importance of"letting off steam"(safety valve-function)visible.And you already may have heared about their forerunner between 1914 and 1918 by F.S.Krauss the famous"Anthropophyteia".

CRITERIA,CLASSIFICATION,HIERARCHIES,KEYWORDS ETC:

Researhcing without any classificatory system is rather frustrating so here are some extracts from 100 000 of IMAGES that have been screened and you find a list of the PICTURES (characters international list)writers use at:

http://users.aol.com/archive1/C.html

and a further systematisation (categories of characters international list)of them at:

http://users.aol.com/archive1/ca.html

and still another one(graffiti categories)at:

http://users.aol.com/archive1/cat.html

The limited ARRAY OF GRAFFITI in a single culture you may see documented concerning GERMANY at:

http://users.aol.com/archive1/B.html

How it all began and what(invisible)influences still may play a role and how religion being part of it all especially the BIBLICAL influence you find at:

http://users.aol.com/archive1/Bi.html

and how come that all was INTENSIFIED ca. 20 years ago and started radiating from USA (and here from slums and ghettos of large cities:URBAN influence)you may look at:

http://users.aol.com/archive1/SY.html

How far global culture has been also influenced by social problems(and graffiti only reflecting a fraction of them)AND offering you some META-REFLECTORY FRAME OF REFERENCE linking all the documented material to SOCIAL ASPECTS unconsciously influencing human behavior you may use the"Vocabulary of Sociatry"that partially reflects results from 22 years of graffiti-research and analyses of deteriorations in social workings today at:

http://users.aol.com/archive1/s.html

and a short"Graffiti-Lexicon"you may view at:

http://www.graffiti.org/axel_6.html

being an early fore-runner of today`s VOCABULARY OF GRAFFITI-RESEARCH(see above).An an early VOCABULARY OF GRAFFITI-RESEARCH (we now have in(written)form of 7 volumes =ca.13 000 KEYWORDS already...)at:

http://www.graffiti.org/axel_2.html

showing how matters have been developing here.If you need"GRAFFITI QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS"you find some at:

http://www.graffiti.org/axel/axel_1.html

A.Thiel`s "FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS"at:

http://www.graffiti.org/axel/axel_3.html

and an"INTRODUCTION TO GRAFFITI-RESEARCH"at:

http://www.graffiti.org/axel/axel_4.html

and how influential anti-graffiti propagande is valuing URLs like ART CRIMES and how tey try to make propaganda against such informations you can visit:

http://www.dougnet.com/artcrime.html

a useful place to study propaganda and psychological warfare.

GERMAN PUBLICATIONS:

In case you should be a visitor from a country where German language is being used and may prefer GERMAN articles here are some:

The text of a youth-conference at "Evangelische Akademie"at Hofgeismar in January 1999 titled"Jugend-Graffiti-Zukunft-Vergangenheit"at:

http://users.aol.com/archive1/HOG.html

and an analysis of the ideological blindings and ineffectiveness of anti-graffiti strategies named"Zero Tolerance als"ideologische Krücke""at:

http://users.aol.com/archive1/Z.html

and a small text from GRAFFITI ART CHEMNITZ(exhibition in 1999)named"Wie alles anfing"at:

http://www.behmenburg.purespace.de/graffiti/html/a_t_historie.html

and the other text ("Von der Wand aufs Papier")of "Chemnitz-Graffiti-Art Exhibition" in 1999 you may find at:

http://users.aol.com/archive1/ch.html

and how all that may interfere and be related to poverty of children("Kinderarmut")at:

http://users.aol.com/archive1/kid.html

SUMMING UP?

A small lexical article"graffiti"now available at:

http://users.aol.com/archive1/lex.html

and an analysis of the ideological term"vandalism",too,at:

http://users.aol.com/archive1/va.html

to assist you to understand/analyze the background.That images writers use link them to"collective unconscious",myths,fairy tales,oral history etc.you may see yourself at:

http://users.aol.com/archive1/C.html

and the categories herein via:

http://users.aol.com/archive1/ca.html

and what categories among graffiti(in toatl)exist being outlined at:

http://users.aol.com/archive1/cat.html

A list of crews' multiple names

http://users.aol.com/archive1/cd.html

and their crews' names list international

http://users.aol.com/archive1/cn.html

and writers multiple names international list:

http://users.aol.com/archive1/mul.html

and writers international names`list,to know ow they name themselves:

http://users.aol.com/archive1/nam.html

(700 pages)

An overview concerning"An attempted differentiation between rock-art and graffiti",at:

http://users.aol.com/axelkas/ca.html

the"Kassel transportation authority damage-study"(bi-lingually),at:

http://users.aol.com/axelkas/kt.html

"The hard facts as results from graffiti-research",at:

http://users.aol.com/axelkas/tr.html

"Tension reduction in creative and psychopatjhological processes",at:

http://users.aol.com/axelkas/up.html

"Graffiti-prevention at rock-art sites"(bi-lingually),at:

http://users.aol.com/axelkas/us.html

A list of GRAFFITI-SYNONYMA to understand how often and how term graffiti is being circumscribed so we do not notice it:

http://users.aol.com/archive1/syn.html

THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT

The ENTRANCE DOOR in internet and of enormous importance being ART CRIMES

http://www.graffiti.org/

with 3 millions of visitors per year

and their SUB-CHAPTERS;,and if you need some BIBLIOGRAPHICAL material here it is at:

http://www.graffiti.org/faq/graffiti_biblio.html

In case you need to know what amount of GRAFFITI-FANZINES already existing as MULTIPLICATORS on a global level you may view material at:

http://www.graffiti.org/index/articles.html

Need informations and more facts from here?

http://www.graffiti.org/faq/index.graffaq.html

Need to travel to other sources of informations?

http://www.graffiti.org/other.html

"Writers"(terminology of sprayers)may get help in case they get"busted"via a developing helpline that just started and you may view at:

http://www.behmenburg.purespace.de/graffiti/html/a-t__helpline.html

with first informations.

In 1999 at German city of WIESBADEN THIRD(international)WALL STREET MEETING(WSM)took place and you have a small German introduction into the background of "writingAmerican style"and all that relates to it at:

http://www.bemenburg.purespace.de/graffiti/html/a_t__wand.html

and needing some overview you have to visit ART CRIMES,the best DOCUMENTATIONS-CENTRE in internet and here visit the PUBLICATION-PAGES at:

http://www.graffiti.org/index/talk.html

Needing material with SCANDINAVIAN background visit Staffan JACOBSON`s URL(especially Nordic bibliography here)wo published an excellent book in Sweden "Den spraymalade bilden"at:

http://travel.to/graffiti

and material from Switzerland you may find at Beat SUTER`s URL(he wrote an excellent German book named"Graffiti-Rebellion der Zeichen")with German language at:

http://www.update.ch/beluga/galerie.html

In SPANISH you find a valuable introduction in Jesus DE DIEGO"La estetica del graffiti en la sociodinamica del espacio urbano"at:

http://www.graffiti.org/faq/diego.html

and another one by Roman MAZZILLI:"Graffiti:las voces de la calle"

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Museum/9653/graffiti.html

From USA noteworthy also being Sherri CAVAN`s"THE GREAT GRAFFITI WARS OF THE LATE 20.CENTURY"at:

http://userwww.sfsu.com/~kazbeki/grafwars.html

and from LATRINALIA-side(toilet graffiti)Mark FEREM`s material at:

http://www.earthlink.net/thehead/

ARCHEOLOGICAL BACKGROUND

Naive people may think graffiti being a"new phenomenon"which they are not as Bible already mentioned the famous MENETEKEL(Daniel,4,5(5-30)commented upon at:

http://users.aol.com/archive1/Bi.html

and there are numerous URLs available on religious informations concerning ancient graffiti and here especially all ROCK-ART(and related)sites being important even though their level of discussion relating to modern counterparts of their ancient material often being way suboptimal reflecting the influence of propaganda here.An overview you may access via:THE ROCK ART FOUNDATION at:

http://members.aol.com/rockart01/index.html

and another one of the FEDERATION OF ROCK ART ORGANIZATIONS(FRAO)at:

http://www.cesmap.it/ifrao/ifrao.html

and one of the prominent one being CENTRO CAMUNO DI STUDI PREISTORICI(Italy)at:

http://www.globalnet.it/ccsp/ccsp.htm

If you want to reflect some of the folklore aspects relating to graffiti visualized in MONIKERS which are hobos`signs and marks you may view some at:

http://www.snowcrest.net/bndlstif/index.html

And how all also may be related to typewriter,teletype and ASII-art you can see at:

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/

http://www.funnybones.com/

which-technological developement mirrored in specific types of artistic differentiation-show you this point of view onto folklore.

From another side where religious developements(Christianity)influenced WRITINGS ON

WALLS as they had to be done in secrecy(persecution)in ROMAN EMPIRE (before Christianity became state-religion)we have the famous finds in CATACOMBES at:

http://catacombe.roma.it/

http://www.catacombe.roma.it/cimiterio_gb.html

and the subsequent URLs.

INVITATION TO COOPERATION

Having an related URL yourself please submit it to my e-mail:

ARCHIVE1@aol.com

so I may have a look at it and a chance to include your results here.

FAST META-SEARCH EINGINES?

Want to do a fast search for specific keywords,you may use folowing URLs:

http://www.google.com

(counts number of visitors at an URL)

http://www.northernlight.com/