Conference Description
Street Art Belgrade, in cooperation with the Austrian Cultural Forum Belgrade, is organizing a conference dedicated to innovative practices in preserving street art and graffiti as cultural heritage.
Through examples from Serbia and Austria, the event will showcase projects using digitization, photogrammetry, VR and virtual platforms to safeguard ephemeral works of urban art – graffiti and street art.
A special focus will be placed on the development of tools, archives, and exhibitions that make street art part of cultural memory and research processes.
The conference highlights the exchange between Belgrade and Vienna, offering a comparative perspective on how two cities document, archive, and exhibit graffiti and street art as a cultural asset.
Beyond presenting existing initiatives, the conference aims to foster dialogue and inspire future collaborations in the field of digital heritage and urban art preservation.
The event is realized with the support of partners Digital Mind and Heapcon conference, highlighting the connection between art and new technologies.
Venue: EU House (Evropska kuća), Belgrade, corner of Knez Mihailova and Zmaj Jovina street
Date: October 4th, 2025, 9:30 AM
Language: All presentations will be in English
Entrance is free but registration is mandatory.
Please use the following link to register:
Origin story – When Graffiti Meets Tech: INDIGO & VR Street Art Belgrade
Street art is alive, vibrant, and fleeting—but what if it could last forever? INDIGO in Vienna is doing just that, digitally capturing over 13 km of graffiti along the Danube Canal, blending community energy with cutting-edge photogrammetry and 3D tools.
Meanwhile, in Belgrade, Street Art Belgrade and VR-All-Art have launched the city’s first virtual street art exhibitions, letting visitors explore murals, stencils, and graffiti from anywhere in the world.
These projects show how art and technology collide—transforming ephemeral urban creations into accessible, immersive experiences.
Program
09:30 – 10:00 Registration
10:00 – 10:20 Opening remarks by Lioba Bammer, Director of the Austrian Cultural Forum Belgrade, and Ljiljana Radošević, researcher and curator, Street Art Belgrade
10:20 – 10:50 Geert J. Verhoeven: From Street to Schema – the INDIGO Toolkit for Graffiti Documentation
Presentation of INDIGO project results: databases, thesauri, image collections, and open-source software tools for graffiti documentation along Vienna’s Danube Canal.
10:50 – 11:20 Vitomir Jevremović: VR-All-Art Platform / Exploring the Benefits and Dangers of New Technologies
11:20 – 11:40 Coffee break
11:40 – 12:10 Stefan Wogrin: Discovering New Ways to Document Graffiti in Vienna
Impact of the INDIGO project on the Viennese graffiti community and the Spraycity.at archive, focusing on new opportunities for digital documentation.
12:10 – 13:00 Lunch break & Heapcon presentation
13:00 – 13:30 Benjamin Wild: Graffiti in Focus – Photogrammetry for Graffiti Documentation in Belgrade and Beyond
Experiences from documenting graffiti in Belgrade and Vienna, highlighting comparative challenges and insights.
13:30 – 14:00 Ljiljana Radošević: Street Art Belgrade – From Research to VR Exhibitions
Presentation of Street Art Belgrade’s vision for virtual exhibitions and the use of scanned graffiti walls.
14:00 – 14:20 Coffee break
14:20 – 15:00 Panel Discussion: Digital Futures of Urban Heritage
Participants: Geert J. Verhoeven, Benjamin Wild, Stefan Wogrin, Vitomir Jevremović, Ljiljana Radošević
Moderator: Ljiljana Radošević
15:00 – 15:15 Coffee break
15:15 – 15:45 Book presentation by Stefan Wogrin: Graffiti Wien #1 – 1984-1999
The first volume documenting Vienna’s graffiti history (1984–1999), with over 1,000 photographs and unique insights into the city’s local heroes and international connections.
15:45 – 16:00 Closing remarks
Speakers
Geert J. Verhoeven
Senior scientist at University of Vienna and coordinator of the INDIGO project, specialized in digital heritage documentation and image-based 3D modelling.With a PhD in Archaeology from Ghent University, he applies archaeological methods to contemporary graffiti, bridging heritage research with urban culture.
Vitomir Jevremović
Archaeologist and IT expert, founder of VR-All-Art and creator of the first Serbian Virtual Museum of Nikola Tesla. A pioneer in applying digital technologies to cultural heritage and art, he develops immersive VR exhibition platforms used by institutions such as the National Museum in Belgrade. Together with the Street Art Belgrade organization, he co-created the first virtual street art exhibitions in Serbia.
Stefan Wogrin
Art historian, graffiti researcher, and founder of the archive Spraycity.at. For more than 20 years he has documented Austrian graffiti culture. In the INDIGO project he contributed expertise in metadata standardization and community engagement. He is also the author of books: Graffiti Wien 1984 — 1999, Follow Me: Social Media Graffiti in Vienna and OFFLINE Graffiti Magazine.
Benjamin Wild
Survey engineer and researcher with expertise in photogrammetry and geoinformation. He defended his PhD at TU Wien in 2025 on methods for graffiti documentation. His work includes field projects in Vienna and Belgrade, focusing on safeguarding graffiti. He is currently working in the hydropower sector, specializing in survey engineering for dam infrastructure.
Ljiljana Radošević
Art historian, researcher, and curator at Street Art Belgrade. Currently completing her PhD at the University of Jyväskylä on the European street art scene. She has initiated projects and VR exhibitions dedicated to documenting and presenting graffiti and street art in Belgrade and beyond.
Organizers
Street Art Belgrade (project of the NGO Kruna)
Founded in 2012, Street Art Belgrade documents and presents Belgrade’s street art scene through photographs, publications, exhibitions, and international collaborations. Within the project organisation published the book Street Art Belgrade, launched the Museum of Street Art platform, and organized the first VR exhibitions of graffiti and murals in the region. Notably, the organisation created 3D mural models for the blind and visually impaired in Serbia and Austria, and developed the Urban Heritage Hub, a platform for archiving urban art. The mission of Street Art Belgrade is to combine technology and art in order to preserve street art as contemporary creation and cultural heritage, and to make it accessible to the public through innovative virtual presentations.
VR-All-Art
A revolutionary platform for exhibiting and researching artworks in virtual and augmented spaces. Recognized by institutions such as the National Museum in Belgrade, VR-All-Art has become part of its permanent collection. The platform provides new possibilities for curators, artists, and audiences to experience and engage with art in immersive digital environments.
Heapcon
A regional IT/tech conference organised by Heapspace, a multidisciplinary team of software engineers, project managers and marketers with over 20 years of experience in event organization. Heapcon is a place where experienced engineers share real-world practices of building, breaking and fixing technology. Known for its strong community energy, Heapcon emphasizes technical depth as well as informal exchange, creating a unique space where hallway conversations are just as valuable as talks.
Austrian Cultural Forum Belgrade
Founded in 2001 as part of the Austrian Embassy in Belgrade, the Austrian Cultural Forum specializes in cultural affairs and implements Austria’s foreign cultural policy in Serbia. As part of a global network of 29 forums in 27 countries, it promotes Austria’s creative achievements in art, culture, and science, while fostering innovation, exchange, and collaboration between Austrian and Serbian cultural actors.
EU House
EU House is a meeting place for people, cultures, and ideas – a space for conversation, learning, exchange, and debate. It offers the opportunity to gain new knowledge and skills, connect with diverse cultures and interlocutors, and make your voice heard in discussions on shared values and policies.