Urban murals and the post-protest imagery of networked publics: the remediated aftermath of Ukraine’s Euromaidan on instagram
Journal: Arrow@dit (Dublin Institute of Technology)
Year: 2018

In modern hyper-mediated urban environments, public art becomes an inseparable part of the multiplicity of meanings generated by citizens with regards to their city, their country and each other. What meanings can public art convey after a protest in a mediated city? And how do social media users capture and reflect on these visual artefacts? This article focuses on the urban murals that appeared in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital in the post-Euromaidan period (spring 2014 – present day). The creati