Interesting piece on We Make Money Not Art about the talk that James Powderly and Evan Roth of Graffiti Research Labs gave at Ars Electronia. You may know GRL’s work from the LED Throwies pieces in Make Vol. 6, on the Make blog, Instructables, etc. I wasn’t really aware of what was behind these. Powderly is a robotics engineer, Roth a Parsons grad who had a fellowship at the Eyebeam OpenLab. They see themselves as engineers who want to create technologies that aid urban artists (taggers, street artists, protest artists, etc.). They want to provide artists with the technology and tools to create urban art that can compete with the technology employed by corporate advertisers. In the talk, they ran through some of the artists that inspire them. We Make Money has pics and links. There’s also a link to a podcast of the talk.
