From Black Books to Burners: Street Art as Cultural Heritage
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2025
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The Eurographics Association
Abstract
Street art occupies a unique space between contemporary art and cultural heritage, characterized by dynamic public expression and inherent ephemerality. The vulnerability of street art to environmental degradation, vandalism, and erasure creates urgent challenges for its preservation. This paper examines how digital archiving can reconcile street art's transient nature with its cultural value through human-centered systems design and critical heritage frameworks. We analyze emerging methodologies for documenting its lifecycle-from sketches to final works-including heritagisation processes, community participation, and semantic technologies. Focusing on the mementoArtem Digital Street Art Archive, we demonstrate how the Arches Heritage Management Framework-using CIDOC-CRM, photogrammetry, and georeferencing-enables the integration of diverse data sources, semantic interoperability, long-term preservation and public engagement with these records. This work is carried out in collaboration with the INSYTE-Cooley Research Laboratory, the Department of Computing and Mathematics, South East Technological University, Ireland, and with the assistance of the Getty Conservation Institute, LA, USA.
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@inproceedings{10.2312:dh.20253040,
booktitle = {Digital Heritage},
editor = {Campana, Stefano and Ferdani, Daniele and Graf, Holger and Guidi, Gabriele and Hegarty, Zackary and Pescarin, Sofia and Remondino, Fabio},
title = {{From Black Books to Burners: Street Art as Cultural Heritage}},
author = {Mcinerney, Patrick and Cronin, Kieran},
year = {2025},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-277-6},
DOI = {10.2312/dh.20253040}
}