Graff Research Lab Wins Award
Graffiti Research Lab won an ARS Electronica Award, quite deservingly."Billboards and neon advertising signs determine in increasingly radical fashion the appearance of our streets and squares. The Graffiti Research Lab has taken up the task of actively opposing this state of affairs. In light of the thoroughgoing commercialization of public space, its aim is to redefine and rehabilitate graffiti as an individualized means of expression. Reasonably-priced technologies are designed to give individuals the opportunity to stake a claim to a public space and to make an impact on it. In collaboration with street artists and activists in New York and Washington D.C., Graffiti Research Lab has developed actions that bring software and electronics into traditional forms of expression of urban protest. This gives rise to completely new forms of Street Art in which building walls, streets and squares are painted with light-graffiti. graffitiresearch.com provides instructions on how to go about it and documentation about what's been done so far."
posted by the don at 5/30/2006 06:07:00 PM
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