Here’s a few more responses to our question,
“What The Hell Should We Call This Thing?”

From href="http://www.createstyle.com">Michael Cohen: I like to
say that I engage in “social art” or “socially
communicative artforms.” So many communication are static: fine art in
galleries that are only seen by a select few, hollywood movies with predictable
endings, the promise of materials good enriching our lives. That type of stuff
is trivial and doesn’t help my life. We are so saturated with media that in some
respect our personalities are a reflection of how we disseminate information:
what we choose to accept, reject, and question. When we need to express
ourselves outside of an accepted system it speaks to how we feel about that
system as controlled/ing, contrived, not genuine. We find new ways of relating
to people by crossing those lines. I take art to the people and help make
people’s dreams come true.

When I first started producing media it
was just “can I get people’s attention?” The form was text and sentence
fragments that tried to catch people offguard and make them think. From there, I
started honing in on what do I really want to say? and why am I compelled to say
it? Fashion, music, design (graphic, industrial, furniture, etc), cinema and new
media are areas that I am touched by and feel like I can talk to people using a
nuanced language—symbols that have histories and meanings. When I am creating
and collaborating is when I really feel alive. That can be making love or taking
pictures. Its a simple as looking around physically and responding to the
elements that comprise my environment. I refer to what one might call street
art, graffiti or urban art, as “social art” because its roots are in people with
a message intended for people; you have to listen closely to hear the message.
Design is redesign and creation is recreation. We can rearrange elements and use
materials that are alive or charged. In fact, we must because it keeps our
message alive and relevant.

From href="http://www.bigawk.com ">Jim McIntyre: Reading the posts, I
think post art is a great term, as is the new
disobedients.  Could “urban art” only relate so far; thinking of the
barnstormers movement for example, because it is an urban adaption to a
country/rural farm enviornment? I think we are all just exterior decorators,
post prophets, creating art for all to gander at (propagander art?), or whatever
our reasons be, we are making an “urban (re)vision”.  The style as a whole does
evolve and thrive in the urban environment, so urban art works
and many have used that as the “unofficial name” so to speak thus far
already.

From Tom in Hamburg: “We have the word
“Graffiti”. This covers for me all “old stuff” To everything
else I simply say “New stuff”. For a more serious term I prefer
“Street Art” to “Urban Art”. For shure they are both very
general and stand for ALL forms of ..... this…......, but nobody would call a
Swoon work a “Graffiti”, but…. Street Art….Why not?). “StreetArt” is short
and compact ,and has a lot of connotations like ....public, free, open, 
noncommercial, temporarily, vivid,.....Cities, mass phenomenon, coming from
“below” etc…..,and a slight taste of rebellion and disorder (like"street
fighting man” remember?), while “Urban Art” sounds a bit
highbrow (Its the U in Yuppie!) and elitist. My thesaurus paraphrases “urban” as
“cultivated, civilized, well educated, sophisticated…” Of course there are
many sophisticated Street Art Works….....but “Urban Steet Art” is a too poor
creation. OK then…..new stuff......new
wave.....nouvelle vague ..... ALL THINGS MUST
PASS….thats it ! I call it “Future`s Old Stuff “ FOS!! FOS!!
more Valpolicella!

From DHM in
Amsterdam: Hmmm, I like the name “street art” cause thats where it’s from, where
it’s at and where it should be. I do have a name for people doing street art
that I kinda like: “GRAPHIC DELINQUENTS”