U2 means You Too: Documenting Graffiti and Street Art

Tom Denison, Centre for Organisational and Social Informatics, Monash University The first piece of graffiti I can recall seeing was a hastily painted “U2 means you too” which I saw on a bridge over the railway line near Hawthorn, Melbourne, in the early 1960s. It was a reference to an incident in 1960, when a …

Agnès Varda: Documenting – or gleaning – the ephemeral

Tom Denison, Centre for Organisational and Social Informatics, Monash University How do you document the ephemeral? In her latest film, Visages Villages, Agnès Varda collaborates with French street-artist/photographer JR, travelling through the French countryside in his photo truck, and visiting small communities. Amongst others, they meet coal miners, farmers, factory workers, cheese makers, a postman, …