While I was in Linz, Austria for Ars Electronica, the Graffiti Research Lab put together a workshop to make as many LED throwies as they could and then organised a meeting in the town center to decorate the trams that run through the city. Unfortunately my video of the event seems to be corrupted but I’ve got one image of a lucky tram that got the GRL treatment. You should have seen the passengers of the trams faces when the crowd from Ars Electronica decended on them. You can see a some of the Graffiti Research Lab’s other events and documentation on their website.
An LED throwie is a small, battery-powered light, attached to a magnet (usually with conductive epoxy or electrical tape), used for the purpose of creating graffiti and light displays. They were devised by the Graffiti Research Lab as a new kind of graffiti art to be used on ferromagnetic surfaces.
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[…] Ruairi Glynn at Interactive Architecture dot org has a description and some photos of a recent GRL installation at Ars Electronica 2006: While I was in Linz, Austria for Ars Electronica, the Graffiti Research Lab put together a workshop to make as many LED throwies as they could and then organised a meeting in the town center to decorate the trams that run through the city… You should have seen the passengers of the trams faces when the crowd from Ars Electronica decended on them. (interactivearchitecture.org) […]
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[…] Apart from the ShiftSpace presentation, the other Pixelspaces talk i really enjoyed was by James Powderly and Evan Roth (US) from Graffiti Research Lab. They developed the project at eyebeam in New York.I didn’t get this project at all before ars electronica. I kind of read about it here and there and thought “mmmh! throwing luminous thingies at buildings? So what?” But i discovered during their talk that there’s more behind G.R.L. and i liked what i heard. A lot (though i wasn’t really convinced by the “let’s throw some luminous thingies at the tram” performance.) My notes from their talk: […]
[…] Apart from the ShiftSpace presentation, the other Pixelspaces talk i really enjoyed was by James Powderly and Evan Roth (US) from Graffiti Research Lab. They developed the project at eyebeam in New York.I didn’t get this project at all before ars electronica. I kind of read about it here and there and thought “mmmh! throwing luminous thingies at buildings? So what?” But i discovered during their talk that there’s more behind G.R.L. and i liked what i heard. A lot (though i wasn’t really convinced by the “let’s throw some luminous thingies at the tram” performance.) My notes from their talk: […]
[…] I didn’t get this project at all before ars electronica. I kind of read about it here and there and thought “mmmh! throwing luminous thingies at buildings? So what?” But i discovered during their talk that there’s more behind G.R.L. and i liked what i heard. A lot (though i wasn’t really convinced by the “let’s throw some luminous thingies at the tram” performance.) My notes from their talk: […]