September 27, 2011
Hommage à Rambo par Robert Hibourassa from Robert Hibourassa on Vimeo.
Posted by marc at 7:15 AM in Geek Graffiti |
March 18, 2011
The video above made by Gabriel Wrye/Zoon Politikon was commissioned by US Ambassador to Sweden Matthew Barzun and his wife Brooke Barzun. The projection of "Underglow" in Nobel Park serves as a thank you to the people of the city of Stockholm for the warm welcome the Barzun family has received while in Sweden and was presented in partnership with Louisville based artwithoutwalls.
Both the piece and the video are lovely and are accompanied by the song "Say" by "The Sweptaways". Their performance is from the US Ambassador's residence the night of the video's unveiling.
Posted by marc at 6:42 AM in Geek Graffiti |
March 7, 2011
robo-rainbow from mudlevel on Vimeo.
Posted by marc at 6:19 AM in Geek Graffiti |
December 17, 2010
I used to be somebody from Rune Madsen on Vimeo.
Posted by marc at 7:43 AM in Geek Graffiti |
September 15, 2010
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September 5, 2010
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July 28, 2010
Requiem for a Thought from paul notzold on Vimeo.
Text message in the thoughts of the strange character lurking along the wall. The interactive bubble reveals the characters inner thoughts, as it tracks the characters movements. A collaboration piece between Paul Notzold's TXTual Healing and Jared Gradinger with Pictoplasma. This piece was made during Les Grandes Traversees festival in Bordeaux France in July of 2010.
Posted by marc at 9:55 PM in Geek Graffiti |
July 22, 2010
Graffiti Analysis v3.0 - Trailer from Evan Roth on Vimeo.
Posted by marc at 8:27 AM in Geek Graffiti |
July 15, 2010
facadeprinter.org - three stones from Facadeprinter on Vimeo.
facadeprinter.org - 5°Asalto Zaragoza from Facadeprinter on Vimeo.
The Facadeprinter is a simple, software controlled robot. It consits of a two axis turn table and an airpressure printhead. The printer shoots the artwork from a distanced position dot by dot onto the chosen area. Using this method, inaccessible and also uneven surfaces can be printed on. Buildings can be displayed without costly scaffolding.
The Facadeprinter is a large scale communication tool. Print-aesthetics and method are distinguishly different from conventional print- and advertising techniques. Artworks are applied directly onto walls, like the drawings of a 'magic pen'. At present, the maximum print distance is 12 meters, the maximum print height is around 8 meters. The shooting frequency is up to 5 dots per second.
The printer is equipped with an industrial PC which is running the specially programmed printing software. The machine is operated by touchscreen. Artworks can be loaded from USB-devices in the file format SVG. With an integrated camera photos of the printing area can be taken and overlayered with a printing preview. This way position and scaling can be adjusted optimally on site. The distance to the wall is measured by infrared-meter and entered manually. The printing software calculates the driving coordinates regarding both the perspective and the ballistic distortion.
A paintball system was converted into a printhead to shoot the colour balls onto the wall. The two axis turn table places the paintball marker by steppermotors and gears. Before printing an integrated laser displays a bounding box of the artwork to verify the precise position on the wall. In case of malfunction or danger printing can be paused anytime.
A balltower conveys the gelatine encapsulated colour balls to the marker. Here they are accelerated to a speed of 200km/h and finally burst on contact with the wall, leaving their coloured contents. A colour dot of 5 to 10 cm diameter occurs on the wall. The busted gelatine shell falls down to the ground where it can be removed, or left to decompose naturally by the rain without residue. The colour qualities differ from each other gravely considering UV stability or dripping characteristics. So colours can be chosen which bleach out within a few hours or remains visible for several months.
More here.
Posted by marc at 6:57 AM in Geek Graffiti |
June 28, 2010
Graffiti Analysis: 3D from Evan Roth on Vimeo.
Evan Roth has just launched a new project that is currently on exhibition at the Kunsthalle Museum. It's a 3D printed data visualization of a 7 second tag, frozen in time. Here's the description from Evan:
Graffiti Analysis: Sculptures is a series of new physical sculptures that I am making from motion tracked graffiti data. New software (GA 3D) imports .gml files (Graffiti Markup Language) captured using Graffiti Analysis, creates 3D geometry based on the data and then exports a 3D representation of the tag as a .stl file (a common file format compatible with most 3D software packages including Blender, Maya and 3DS Max). Time is extruded in the Z dimension and pen speed is represented by the thickness of the model at any given point. I then have this data 3D printed to create a physical sculpture that serves as a data visualization of the tag. For the Street and Studio exhibition at the Kunsthalle Wein, I collaborated with an anonymous local Viennese graffiti writer and had the GA sculpture printed in ABS plastic. Graffiti motion data of his tag was captured in the streets (for the first time) at various points around Vienna
Posted by marc at 7:38 AM in Geek Graffiti |
January 22, 2010
Hungry Hungry Eat Head from Bren O'Callaghan on Vimeo.
A site-specific play experience by Hudson-Powell & Joel Gethin Lewis for the Big Screen Edinburgh, produced by Bren O'Callaghan. Commissioned by City of Edinburgh Council with further development (phase 2) made possible by AND: Abandon Normal Devices Festival of New Cinema and Digital Culture.
Posted by marc at 8:01 AM in Geek Graffiti |
December 15, 2009
Andross from posterchild on Vimeo.
Abstract Crystallization from posterchild on Vimeo.
Posted by marc at 8:27 AM in Geek Graffiti |
October 28, 2009
Graffiti Analysis 2.0 (Digital Blackbook) - BLK River (Vienna) from Evan Roth on Vimeo.
From Evan:
"Thought you might enjoy some of the pre-release footage of the Digital Blackbook (Graffiti Analysis 2.0) sessions from the BLK River Festival last week in Vienna. I'm working on developing an open data base of motion capture graffiti data from writers all over the world, should be released publicly within the next 4 weeks."
Posted by marc at 8:30 AM in Geek Graffiti |
October 21, 2009
SWEATSHOPPE, 4spots, the landing extras from SWEATSHOPPE on Vimeo.
"Multimedia performers Sweatshoppe have been wheat pasting buildings with moving images all over New York. Mapping video projections to LED-lit paint rollers, Sweatshoppe lay their projections on a surface, paint-stroke by paint stroke. They call new digital performance style "Video Painting".
How it works: The software controlling the video was written in Max. The paint roller does not use any sort of paint, it simply contains green LEDs. The software tracks the color green and outputs the x y position which are sent to drawing commands and the strokes are textured with video.
Sweatshoppe is video artists Bruno Levy and Blake Shaw. They plan on eventually releasing the software, but only after it is much more refined, buffed up with features and is user-friendly."
Posted by marc at 6:40 AM in Geek Graffiti |
March 24, 2009
TXTual Healing hits Chelsea Art Museum; working with actors in the windows from paul notzold on Vimeo.
Posted by marc at 12:53 PM in Geek Graffiti |
March 23, 2009
The Only Certainty, Death and TXT's from paul notzold on Vimeo.
A 30 foot projection of an animated skeleton triggered by received text messages. The installation was at the Leonardo in Salt Lake City for the Body Worlds exhibit
Posted by marc at 3:09 AM in Geek Graffiti |
February 23, 2009
If you are in or around Vienna this week, be sure to check out Evan Roth's (Graffiti Research Lab) first solo exhibition which opens at the Advanced Minority Gallery on Westbahnstr 22. A-1070
The opening coincides with the release of Evan's new self published book project called, /AVAILABLE ONLINE FOR FREE: Selected works by Evan Roth 2003-2008/ (made entirely in Linux using open source software and fonts). The book can be downloaded for free in its entirety here.
Posted by marc at 7:39 AM in Geek Graffiti |
May 2, 2008
If you're in New York this weekend, be sure to head over to MoMA where the Graffiti Research Laboratory will be premiering their film, GRL: The Complete First Season on Sunday, May 4th @ 8PM. After the flick, there will be a talk with a range of artists featured in the film, including Mark Jenkins, Leon Reid, and Steve Lambert. You can learn more here, but be sure to check out the trailer below...
G.R.L. The Complee7 First Season (Trailer) from fi5e on Vimeo.
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January 29, 2008
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January 28, 2008
"Walls, trains or house fronts - graffiti need to be sprayed on solid, "real" backgrounds. Doesn't it? An answer to this is provided by the "Tagged in Motion" project, which builds a bridge between real graffiti art and its virtual depiction. The centre of attention is the graffiti artist DAIM, who co-created the nextwall. Equipped with the appropriate technology, DAIM sprays graffiti into empty space. In a large hall, three cameras using Motion Capturing record DAIM's position and the movements he executes with a virtual spray can. The assimilated data is shown to him in real time in a pair of video glasses - as free-floating 3D graffiti in space. In this way he can decide how and where to apply his strokes, and via a Bluetooth controller can also determine the colours, strength of brushstrokes and textures of his work."
More info here.
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Posted by marc at 8:25 PM in Geek Graffiti |
October 23, 2007
(Read the story on the MAKE blog)
Posted by marc at 9:16 AM in Geek Graffiti |
May 2, 2007
"Using a projector, a computer, and a homemade mobile SMS gateway, watch as your projected text message is spelled out in the digitally captured writing style of NYC Graffiti Artist Jesus Saves. Don't use your mobile phone to escape your surroundings, use it to engage it and speak out. Created by Paul Notzold and Adam Chapman".
More photos and info here.
Posted by marc at 6:46 AM in Geek Graffiti |
March 15, 2007
One of our favorite shows this year has been GRL's OPEN CITY at Eyebeam here in New York. True to the spirit of everything they do, the Graffiti Research Lab has put the entire show online here . (But that shouldn't stop you from actually seeing the show, as it's up until April 7th and is worth the trip to Chelsea)
There's a ton of great videos in the show. Here's a couple of our favorites:
Posted by marc at 6:51 AM in Geek Graffiti , Video |
February 27, 2007
GRL's fantastic Open City event finally opens this week on Thursday March 1st at the Eyebeam space in Chelsea. It's been in the works for over a year now and looks to be incredible.
Tools and methods of the following artists will be on display:
Aram Bartholl, BORF, G.R.L., Institute for Applied Autonomy, Improve
Everywhere, Mark Jenkins, KATSU, KR, Object Orange, Leon Reid, Matthia
Wermke, and Krzysztof Wodiczko.
GRL will have their laser tagging system running for people to try out. The original Boston Mooninitie will be on display as well as ""videos of people breaking laws and running around with no pants, movie screenings, and workshops workshops workshops."
Things will be going on all month at Eyebeam, this week is as follows:
March 2: (3-5pm)
Aram Bartholl - First Person Shooter glasses workshops (
http://www.datenform.de/fps.html )
March 3: (3-5pm)
Aram Bartholl - WoW workshop / performance (
http://www.datenform.de/wow.html )
Mark Jenkins - Tape sculptures workshop (
http://xmarkjenkinsx.com/index.html )
March 3: (5-6pm)
Screenings of shorts by Matthias Wermke, Object Orange, Krzysztof
Wodiczko, GRL and others.
March 8: (7:30pm)
Screening of State Your Name with introduction by filmmakers
Posted by marc at 12:45 PM in Geek Graffiti , New York |
February 20, 2007
Watch the video here. Amazing.
Posted by marc at 12:01 PM in Geek Graffiti |
Paul Notzold, working with Federico Hatoum, have been working on a community drawing tool that allows you to use SMS to draw on buildings. The piece will debut in the Streets of Rome, Italy from March 1 - 3. TXTual Healing and TXT-A-Sketch will both be on view as part of the Urban Portraits show at rialtosantambrosio
You can see video and photos here.
Posted by marc at 6:53 AM in Geek Graffiti , Projections |
January 30, 2007
The Graffiti Research Lab are continuing to raise the bar on what can be done when you merge technology and graffiti.
For their latest project they're inviting writers, street artists, pranksters, bikers, and protesters to contribute work as they take control of the Renzo Piano KPN Telecom building and the Kop Van Zuid in Rotterdam from February 7th through the 10th. During those evenings the massive 37 x 72 meter screen will become a place to display your uncurrated animations and graphics. The back-side of the KPN will become a giant open wall which you can write on with a GRL created "BFL (big fucking laser)". Throughout the week, the G.R.L. will venture outside the green zone on sorties to laser tag and projection bomb the city center of Rotterdam on the BORF riot bike.
Should be an amazing week.
You can learn more here.
Posted by marc at 6:49 AM in Geek Graffiti |
January 20, 2007
Later tonight (Saturday), as part of a cell phone art show at the Contemporary Museum of Baltimore, Paul Notzold will be putting up his TXTual Healing project outside the gallery in the Baltimore Neighborhood of Mt. Vernon. The show will run from about 6 - 9 pm tonight so if you are in the area, come down and participate. Also, feel free to txt in during the show from the comfort of your own city. Send an SMS to 646.209.1786. no mms please.
Posted by marc at 8:00 AM in Geek Graffiti |
November 16, 2006
This is very cool. At the famed Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, high school students can take a call where they learn how to do Guerrilla Cinema. Xavier Tavera is a Minneapolis based artist that has recently been working with projection on the street. The Walker Art Center asked him to work with ten students to create their own videos and outdoor, site specific projects. You can learn more on the class blog here.
Posted by marc at 7:16 AM in Geek Graffiti |
October 11, 2006
'Fear Fighter' is an interactive street projection. Asking the question, "What are you afraid of?" You text message your fears to the displayed number and they appear in his thoughts as he guns them down. It's the latest txt message enabled street performance by Paul Notzold.
You can check out a video by clicking here.
Posted by marc at 6:33 AM in Geek Graffiti |
September 20, 2006
Made by C in Belgium, mostly from bicycle parts: the saddle, brake handle, springs, cables, bolts...
Posted by marc at 7:24 AM in Geek Graffiti |
August 30, 2006
From NODSTER -
"The german Claus Winter, a friend of mine, developed a new technique for an installation-artist, making whatever word you type into the computer visible by a "water-curtain". You can type in the text from all over the world via the web. the effect is amazing! This video below shows the world-premiere during the "nuit-blanche" in paris in oct.05. the theme for this presentation was PARIS itself and words the artists associate with it.the possibilities opened through this are huge! It makes your brain go wild, finding tons of ideas what one could do with this.Hope you like it."
Posted by marc at 9:21 AM in Geek Graffiti |
August 29, 2006
Karolina Sobecka makes night projections of wild animals from moving cars. The coolest thing about the project is that the movements of the animals are programmed to match the speed of the car that is projecting it.
She writes... "as the car moves, the animal runs along it speeding up and slowing down with the car, as the car stops, the animal stops also. The framerate of the movie corresponds to the speed of the wheel rotation, picked up by a sensor. If the presence of a moving object (such as another car or pedestrian) is detected with proximity sensors, its animal "avatar" appears in the projection.
Check out the video here.
Posted by marc at 7:19 AM in Geek Graffiti |
July 27, 2006
Last week TXTual Healing hit the streets of Beijing, China, projecting their TXTual Healing project on the Millennium Museum.
Posted by marc at 6:53 AM in Geek Graffiti |
July 26, 2006
The Graffiti Research Lab have released their latest project. It's called the High Writer, and is demonstrated by the skilled hands of KATSU. "Catch 30' x 15' tags in 15 minutes or less or your money back!"
You can learn more about it here.
The prototype High Writer will be auctioned off at the Benefit Art Show for Daniel McGowan hosted by Visual Resistance. All proceeds from the show will benefit the legal fund of local environmental and social justice activist Daniel McGowan.
Thursday, July 27 & Friday, July 28, 2006, 5-10pm ABC No Rio, 156 Rivington St
Lower East Side, NYC
Posted by marc at 7:49 AM in Geek Graffiti |
July 21, 2006
Pixile is a mobile projection system using sculptural installation. The Pixile creates a holographic illusion of spherical objects spinning, changing and reacting to each other in mid space. People passing by can interact with the Pixile by moving and rotating the objects in real-time. The Pixile will respond to the persons body movements, sounds and even wind in the air. You can learn more here and see a video of the project here.
The images above were recently taken in Melbourne’s Federation Square. The Pixile team will be coming to New York in September to exhibit the Pixile project at Wired NextFest06.
Posted by marc at 7:10 AM in Geek Graffiti |
June 23, 2006
The other day we gave a short interview to Geeta Dayal at the New York Times about the amazing work that the Graffiti Research Lab at Eyebeam is doing. The article ran today in the International Herald. It's fantastic to see Evan and James get the much deserved recognition. Here's the article in full:
Devising digital techniques for graffiti artists
By Geeta Dayal The New York Times
Published: June 23, 2006
NEW YORK This city may have given birth to modern-day graffiti art, but how is it keeping up with the times?
Graffiti in its traditional form, involving aerosol cans of spray paint and an inviting flat surface, still dominates on the streets. But online things are evolving quickly.
Techniques are debated in forums, and photos of tags, or signatures, are constantly uploaded and swapped on popular photo-sharing Web sites like flickr.com. Sites like Wooster Collective (woostercollective.com) function as digital galleries and as clearinghouses for street art on an international level.
Graffiti and other forms of street art are gaining recognition in major New York museums. The Museum of Modern Art recently acquired three oversize woodcuts and linoleum cuts by the current street art sensation Swoon; the pieces currently are being shown as part of the exhibition "Since 2000: Printmaking Now." On Friday the Brooklyn Museum was to open "Graffiti," a major exhibition of large-scale graffiti paintings that includes works by 1980s trailblazers like Lady Pink (Sandra Fabara) and NOC 167 (Melvin Samuels Jr.).
Now New York has its own center for the study of graffiti technology. The nascent Graffiti Research Lab is masterminded by two tech-minded artists, Evan Roth and James Powderly, and run from the Eyebeam gallery, a nonprofit arts and technology center where both men are fellows.
The purpose of the project is to rethink how people make and look at graffiti and street art, not by making the stuff but by developing tools that graffiti writers could potentially use.
"I'm not a graffiti writer," Powderly, 29, said. "I like to say I'm a graffiti engineer." Using their odd combination of training - Powderly's background is in aerospace robotics, Roth's is in coding, architecture and Web design - they develop new methods of self-expression. These include a panoply of digital projection techniques, LED-driven light art and specially written computer programs.
"As more and more people learn to program at a younger age, and computers get cheaper, graffiti is eventually going to have these technological elements as a part of it," Roth said.
Roth, 28, is a wunderkind in his tiny but thriving world. A valedictorian of the Parsons School of Design's graduate program in design and technology, he developed a thesis project called Graffiti Analysis, which used motion-tracking techniques and custom-written code to analyze and record a graffiti writer's hand movement over time. Working with several graffiti writers, Roth created a series of striking digital projections of graffiti being "written" at night on various New York buildings. No physical mark is left on the building by this ghostly process, but it looks shockingly real while it is happening.
In a related project, Graffiti Taxonomy, Roth photographed hundreds of graffiti tags on the Lower East Side, and created detailed typographic charts of various letters of the alphabet based on the visual data he collected.
A flurry of New York-based graduate thesis projects in recent years have explored new forms of technology-oriented graffiti, including John Geraci's Grafedia, a method of creating hyperlinked graffiti on city streets, and Joshua Kinberg's Bikes Against Bush, which uses text messaging and a custom-built dot-matrix printer connected to a bicycle to print giant chalk letters on the sidewalk.
So far the Graffiti Research Lab's activities include the Electro-Graf, a simple method of using magnetic and conductive paint to embed LED electronics inside a graffiti piece, surrounding the graffiti with a halo of brilliant light; LED "throwies," tiny and colorful battery-powered lights attached to magnets, designed to be thrown onto urban surfaces; the Night Writer, an inexpensive device that posts foot-tall messages in glowing LED lights on metallic surfaces in a single fluid motion; and Jesus 2.0, a recent light sculpture collaboration with the street artist Mark Jenkins of Washington. The lab is also working to refine various digital projection ideas that Roth explored in his Graffiti Analysis project.
The Graffiti Research Lab's values follow the idea-sharing philosophy of the open source movement: Roth and Powderly provide free and detailed online documentation on their Web site (graffitiresearchlab.com) so that anyone can follow - and replicate - their work. Roth also teaches a class at Parsons entitled "Geek Graffiti."
Roth realizes that eager companies may co-opt the lab's work, although he is strongly anticommercial. "Marketing people went crazy over the project," he said of Graffiti Analysis, "because it's cool and it's big and it's projected in public. They look at Graffiti Analysis and see their company's image inserted in there." The projects are intentionally designed to be cheap, user-friendly and not illegal. "The kind of stuff I've been doing is intentionally geared to a wider audience," Roth said. "One of the goals with the Graffiti Research Lab is to try to remove some of the negative connotations that graffiti has."
Roth's interest in studying graffiti and street art blossomed after he moved to New York from Los Angeles. A turning point, he said, was seeing the classic documentary "Style Wars," which immortalized the 1980s face-off between the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and graffiti writers. "They were hacking the subway to transport these huge art pieces from borough to borough," Roth said of the artists. "That movie makes graffiti feel like such a movement."
Studying New York's graffiti soon became his preoccupation. "I did get totally obsessed with it," he said, "to the point where I couldn't walk down the street and have conversations with people without having my gaze sidetracked by a tag."
The transportation authority recently proposed a $25 million plan to combat acid-based window etchings, also called scratchiti, on subway cars. The agency is also considering the use of surveillance cameras to track down graffiti writers.
"There's a strong crackdown, and gentrification changes the streets," said Marc Schiller, the founder of Wooster Collective. "But it's a great time to be creative in general. Creativity is so accessible now. On the street and off, on the Web, the barriers to being creative have never been lower."
Posted by marc at 1:37 PM in Geek Graffiti |
June 12, 2006
Using cell phones and SMS messaging, TXTual healing allows people to use their mobile phones and SMS messaging to fill in the text of large speech bubbles that are projected onto walls and buildings. You can learn more about the project here.
(Thanks, Reevo)
Posted by marc at 7:27 AM in Geek Graffiti |
May 16, 2006
A few weeks ago we were invited by Evan Roth to visit his amazing "Geek Graffiti" class that he teaches at Parsons here in New York. One of the projects that was presented that we quite liked was Robyn Hasty's "Graffiti Jumble Project". A few days ago she put up the first prototype up by the Williamsburg waterfront. You can learn more about the project here.
Posted by marc at 7:25 AM in Geek Graffiti |