Selected books

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Art After Instagram: Art Spaces, Audiences, Aesthetics

Lachlan MacDowall and Kylie Budge present a detailed study of the impact of Instagram on the field of art production and consumption, examining how the app has reshaped the triangular relationship between art spaces, art audiences and art objects. This book is forthcoming from Routledge in 2021.

Instafame: Graffiti and Street Art in the Instagram Era

A pioneering study of the impact of digital technology on the public realm, using 23 million pieces of data to map the emerging institutional landscape of the most popular graffiti and street artists. Published by Intellect Books and the University of Chicago Press.

Making Culture Count: The Politics of Cultural Measurement

Lachlan MacDowall, Marnie Badham, Emma Blomkamp, Kim Dunphy (eds), Making Culture Count: The Politics of Cultural Measurement (London: Palgrave, 2015, reissued 2018)

Selected book chapters and journal articles

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Snitches, Glitches and Untold Riches: Graffiti and Street Art on Instagram

Ramo? Meet Ahab: Beat Street and the Migaloo Boogaloo

From Peterhof Station to Crescenzago: Agit-Trains and Grifter's Code

Walls as fleeting surfaces: From bricks to pixels, trains to Instagram

MacDowall, L. (2018), "Walls as fleeting surfaces: From bricks to pixels, trains to Instagram" in Andrea Mubi Brighenti and Mattias Kärrholm (eds.), Urban Walls: Political and Cultural Meanings of Vertical Structures and Surfaces (London: Routledge)

Cultural Heritage and Ficto-criticism: The Ballad of Utah and Ether

MacDowall, L. (2017), "Cultural Heritage and Ficto-criticism: The Ballad of Utah and Ether", Street Art & Urban Creativity Scientific Journal, Vol 3, No. 1

The Grandmaster Protocol: Kung-fu, Hip-hop and the Klan

MacDowall, L (2017), "The Grandmaster Protocol: Kung-fu, Hip-hop and the Klan", commissioned essay for the City of Darebin” s Writing This Place project

A Boneyard of Data: Graffiti and Street Art's Temporalities

MacDowall, L. (2016), "A Boneyard of Data: Graffiti and Street Art's Temporalities" in Journal of Street Art and Urban Creativity Volume 2

Graffiti, Street Art and Stigmergy

MacDowall, L. (2015), “Graffiti, Street Art and Stigmergy” in Lossau, J. and Stevens, Q. The Uses of Art in Public Space (London: Routledge)

#Instafame: Aesthetics, Audiences, Data

MacDowall, L., (2016) “#Instafame: Aesthetics, Audiences, Data” in Avramidis, K and Tsilimpounidi, M (eds), Graffiti and Street Art: Reading, Writing and Representing the City (London: Routledge)

GRAFFITIDOWNUNDERGROUND

MacDowall, L. (2014), “GRAFFITIDOWNUNDERGROUND” in Artlink 34: 1, pp. 16-19

The End of Graffiti

MacDowall, L. (2013), ‘The End of Graffiti,’ in Borriello, L and Ruggiero, C (eds.), Inopinatum: The Unexpected Impertinance of Urban Creativity, Rome: INWARD/Study Centre on Urban Creativity, Sapienza University and Arti Grafiche Boccia

Keith Haring and Melbourne’s Street Art Scene

MacDowall, L. (2012), ‘Keith Haring and Melbourne’s Street Art Scene,’ in Mathews, H. (ed.), Caterpillars & Computers: Keith Haring in Australia, Melbourne: Australian Centre for Contemporary Art

I'd Double Tap That!!!: Graffiti, Street Art and Instagram Research

MacDowall, L. and P. de Souza. (2018), "I'd Double Tap That!!!: Graffiti, Street Art and Instagram Research" in Media, Culture & Society 40:1, pp. 3-22

'Melbourne' and 'Sydney' in The World Atlas of Graffiti and Street Art

MacDowall, L. (2013), ‘Melbourne,’ in Schacter, R. (ed.), The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press

In Praise of 70K: Cultural Heritage and Graffiti Style

MacDowall, L. (2006), ‘In Praise of 70K: Cultural Heritage and Graffiti Style,’ in Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 20: 4 (December): 471- 484

The Graffiti Archive and the Digital City

MacDowall, L. (2008), ‘The Graffiti Archive and the Digital City,’ in Butt, D., Bywater, J. and Paul, N. (eds.), PLACE: Location and Belonging in New Media Contexts, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press

A full list of publications is available via my academia.edu profile.