Interview for 'Thinking Urban' goes on Archilovers

''A study by the European Parliament's Committee on Culture and Education recognises the transformation of the street art artistic movement, but it also reveals a discrepancy in the way it is perceived in different countries across Europe.

 Street art suffers from a timid institutional recognition in the different European countries and a low level of consideration by public funding and cultural policies. In Germany, Italy and Spain, street art is seen more as a spontaneous entertainment and are almost never granted any financial support.

The situation is even more gloomy in Northern Europe where even circus arts get considerably more recognition, and street art remains underdeveloped. Ioan Pupila, founder of the Street Art Aarhus project, tells AFR ' 'There for sure are places in Europe where it is more challenging to create street art because of different political reasons.''

:: read the entire article (Street art at a Crossroad) on Archilovers webpage

Street art and the Kulturhus

New murals - acrylic on wall - we did inside Trøjborg Beboerhus, a voluntary controlled house that serves as a local hub in Trøjborg, Aarhus:

Make glitter, not war!

Glittering gun collage spotted downtown - 'Goldmania 2015' pic.twitter.com/phUkkfAB3A

— streetart in aarhus (@artinarhus) July 24, 2015

The short story behind Seagull Kiss graffiti on Fiskergade

Kate Svanholm is the music artist that represents the girl in the mural 'Seagull Kiss' by Hans Krull.

'' Mek Pek and I were over artist Hans Oldau Krull studio in Aarhus in 1980. We came up to do a photo shoot, and Krull had happened a few stuffed birds standing, which I thought would be fun to make photo with. We got to play a lot with the stuffed seagull and many fun photos occurred that night. ''

Hence arose as lithography pressure of "Seagull Kiss", which was later painted in colors on the gable of fishing street in Aarhus in 1985. 

:: via katesvanholm.dk

We put some of the art symbols of Aarhus in #deepdream filter and the results are awesome

If you don't know already about Google's #deepdream project - the manipulation of the image recognition software, to put it short - that has gone viral on the Internet these days, you should definitely give it a try.

We used it at Street Art Arhus to convert some of the artistic icons of the city, and here is how it looks like. Share your thoughts and opinions in comments: how do you find it?

This is how Ron Mueck's boy at AROS looks like on one of the deep dream's program filters.  Or is it the lizard-boy now? 

The kiss of the seagull, originally painted by Krull in the '80, has a few more pairs of rainbow(ish) eyes in 2015.

And here's a different filter, that makes it look more 'organic'.

Finally, we put the famous 'Rainbow Panorama' inside the dreamscope app:

Colorful dreams everyone! :)

Street art and the harbor - Aarhus, 2015