Free Art Game #1:

Start a "call for entries" gallery. Keep an archive and present the
calls for entries, and submissions. Give away a prize to the top three
winners as decided by your panel–the prize being an actual entry to the
winning contest. One38.org will host.

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Free Art Game #2:

All Creation is an Act Of Destruction: Guerilla Gardening and Grafilthy.

1. Graffilthy

* Graffitti's natural progression: Super Soakers, filled with paint,
creating a Jackson Pollack Landscape. The differential between art and
reality meets an all time union.

* The new Militant left declares a war and fights it with the
combination of childish things (vandalism, waterguns) and artistic tools
(paint, guerilla art.) Inherently it is a satire of the Militant Right.

* Graffilthy has merged with performance art on several occasions.
Wearing goggles, bicycle helmets and kneepads, on a bicycle with a water
gun, an unidentified Graffilthy Perpetrator runs through town ringing
his bell and spraying paint.

* Even authorities are disinterested, going so far as to refuse to call
it "vandalism." Teachers, College Professors, Doctors and Dentists have
all remarked on its prettiness. The landmark bridge was coated with
pastel paints, which remain today.

* As with any underground art movement, there are rumors abound: that
the graffilthy movement is sponsored by the city as part of the desire
to modernize Boston. That news reports have identified it, with its
proper name.

http://beaconhilltimes.com/times_feature4.mv?20000425
http://one38.org/graffilthy/

2. Guerilla Gardening: The Response to Graffilthy

* Balance is an essential piece of any artistic endeavor. As a result,
there is a new flipped version of graffilthy: Guerilla Gardening.

* Groups of youths with Ski Masks and pick up trucks jump from the truck
into traffic circles, parking lots, sidewalks, with green watering cans
seeds. Rakes if neccessary. The seeds are planted and the location is
placed on a Map.

* The groups care for these seeds on a daily basis in the same manner,
though often for the sake of convienience the spectacle is reduced, and
shifts are rotated.

* Soon, the city is overrun by broad, colorful splashes of paint at eye
level, and legions of self-perpetuating flowers on the ground.

Its Relation To The Internet:

Through the internet, both movements have been able to become
inexplicably intertwined with the street cultures of various cities that
it would perhaps never reach otherwise. Streetwise is slowly coming to
mean net.savvy, and previously local scenes for Graffitti artists are
getting smaller- increasing the desire to top a larger collective pool.

This means an essentially immense increase in the collective quality of
graffitti artists. When one gets up in Utah, one can also be seen by the
artists in London.

Essentially, net.savvy has led to a desire to literally have a style war
with everyone in the world. As a result of this networking, which has
occured for several years, though now, with cable and computer access
more popular than ever before, it has reached an all time high.

The product of this has been the formation of the Graffitti Avant Garde.
Graffilthy is aware of the internet, sharing the same ideologies that
Graffitti and the net share: the desire to be seen, to put forward art
and ideas instead of merely recieving them from established sources.

Just as early electronic music and Graffitti were tied together, the
internet and Graffitti will enjoy in the 21st century a symbiotic
relationship which could change the realm of internet art to involve a
more direct sense of action and real-time, non virtual results.