Short note: This website is in Beta - we are currently building everything up but you can already find the apps to download and participate! Thank you and stay safe!
ArtSpots is a community-built art atlas. Through the app people who are interested in various art forms like Street Art, historic or contemporary art, photography, architecture and more can put their art observations on the map and discover art spots in their own city or while travelling.
Do you love discovering art? With the ArtSpots app, you can share your art discoveries and own artworks with a community full of art lovers - and put your discoveries on the map. Download, register and start spotting - it is as simple as that.
By sharing your findings with others in the ArtSpots app, you help people in your city to explore local creativity or revisit art exhibitions, street art places and graffiti hotspots. You can post a wide range of art forms, from streetart and graffiti to design, from historic artworks to contemporary art or even architecture. You can share also your own creative works and even art hotspots on the map, like museums or the contemporary gallery around the corner.
Each art spot is visible for all users of the app, and you can connect with the local artists and the art community. By working together, art enthusiast from all fields can join collectively and create an extensive collection together. It is even possible to upload timelines of locations to document the development or cover new exhibitions in an art gallery.
ArtSpots, like its successor project "Street Art", is running on the SPOTTERON Citizen Science platform - it will always be free and non-commercial. We respect your digital identity, and we do not monetize your data - because of your online privacy matters. Find out more at www.artspots.net
Absolutely! After creating your user account, you can log in with it in all apps and projects on the SPOTTERON platform without the need to register again. You can find additional apps and topics here: https://www.spotteron.app/apps - Please be invited to download any app which you like to join and start spotting!
To erase all your personal data stored on Spotteron you can simply go to the settings panel in the app you use. There you can enter your current password there as confirmation about your identity and then just "klick" Delete now. There is not even a delay, your personal data is automatically erased.
At the first start of the app, it asks for permission to use the location of your phone. Please make sure that you have granted that permission - you can find an app's permission in your phone settings. Alternatively, you can uninstall and reinstall the app and grant permission - no worries, no user account data or observations are lost, you have simply to log in again.
If the reticle doesn't jump to your current location, you can also use the address search to find it or move the map to your current location manually.
If you want to be use your location, you need to turn on "Location" in your phone's quick settings (if it wasn't turned on already) and open the app again, wait a few seconds and click on the crosshairs