Featured Artist: Graffiti Research Lab
Graffiti Research Lab is an art group dedicated to outfitting graffiti writers, artists and protesters with open source technologies for urban communication. The members of the group experiment in a lab and in the field to develop and test a range of experimental technologies. They document those efforts with video documentation and DIY instructions for each project and make it available for everybody.
The Graffiti Research Lab is particularly well-known for inventing LED Throwies, which were likely the inspiration for the advertisers who distributed mooninites around Boston and Cambridge in the well-publicised 2007 Boston Mooninite Scare.
The Graffiti Research Lab is currently housed at Free Art & Technology Labs (a.k.a. FATLAB), a non-profit research lab that supports artists, engineers, designers and entertainers whose work directly enriches the public domain. [source Wikipedia]
During Spark 2008, the Graffiti Research Labs, represented by James Powderly and Todd Polenberg will present a lecture on their guerilla-style approach to creating and showing work. They will also lead a bicycle tour of Minneapolis and project art onto buildings.
Visit GRL's website.