June 12, 2008 Koreans use Laser Tag for FTA protests.

smart use of GRL's laser tag for protest purposes

Graffiti mars school media event
Bus carrying officials is tagged during tour to show off new stop closer to campus so students can avoid gang area.
By Angie Green, Times Staff Writer
February 27, 2007

The two-block walk from the MTA bus stop to campus has often been a frightening ordeal for students at the Santee Education Complex just south of downtown Los Angeles.

Some have complained of gang activity and being harassed or robbed - including one student who was held up at gunpoint. The area was branded by Los Angeles Unified School District Supt. David L. Brewer as "one of the worst blocks" in the area.

March 1, 2007
Defacer With Mystery Agenda Is Attacking Street Art
By COLIN MOYNIHAN

Someone out there has a problem with art. Or at least a certain kind of art and artist.

The evidence is the bright green and purple splashes of paint that began appearing on walls in Brooklyn and Manhattan more than a month ago. The carefully aimed blobs obscured or disfigured dozens of pieces of street art created by people who may not be household names, but who have achieved the esteem of peers and some recognition from the mainstream art world. The targets of the paint attacks have included posters, paper cutouts pasted on walls, and images stenciled on the sides of buildings.

Many of the paint splatters were accompanied by messages printed on plain white sheets of paper and pasted near the splatters. Those communiqués appeared to condemn the commodification of art, but it is difficult to be sure what the messages really mean. One reads, in part, "Destroy the museums, in the streets and everywhere." The author has kept his or her identity a secret.

Word of the covert actions spread quickly through the street art community. Web logs began documenting the splatters. Soon the unknown protagonist was named the Splasher.

Open City is an exhibition about the tools and methods employed by graffiti writers, street artists, activists, and pranksters. Come drink free beer and watch videos of people break'n da law. Video documentation and tools by the following artists will be on display:

laser pointer + projector on giant building = immense graffiti

In San Francisco, a Plague of Stickers Opens a New Front in the Graffiti War
By JESSE McKINLEY
Published: September 17, 2006

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 16 — One of the most wanted men in San Francisco — if he is a man — has no known name, no known mug shot and one very efficient sticker machine.
For several months, the police say, someone has been plastering the city’s walls, public phones and newspaper boxes with postcard-size stickers reading “BNE” in big black letters. Sometimes the stickers also have Japanese script that translates to “visit” or “come to.” 

Have a Seat is a very simple and generous gesture towards reclaiming public space in Williamsburg (Brooklyn). During the night the artist affixed a dozen “seats” to the "no parking" and "stop" sign posts implanted in the sidewalk (map of the seats).

cleaning designs into outdoor space

video and some text that doesn't explain much.

also - a tricycle w/ speakers attached for roving street parties 

June 30–September 3, 2006
Morris A. and Meyer Schapiro Wing, 5th Floor

An exhibition of twenty large-scale graffiti paintings from such influential artists as Michael Tracy ("Tracy 168"), Melvin Samuels, Jr. ("NOC 167"), Sandra Fabara ("Lady Pink"), Chris Ellis ("Daze"), and John Matos ("Crash"), Graffiti explores how a genre that began as a form of subversive public communication has become legitimate—moving away from the street and into private collections and galleries. Forms of graffiti have been discovered on ancient Roman and Mayan architecture and like today were both illegal and a form of communication. Modern graffiti, which is associated with hip-hop culture and spans all racial and economic groups, began in the mid- to late 1960s; it made its way to New York City and quickly became a phenomenon. Urban youth used the sides of subway trains and buildings as their canvases, reclaiming sections of their neighborhoods by "tagging" them with stylized renditions of their names or the names of the groups they formed. The self-taught graffiti artists turned the walls of public (and sometimes private) buildings into giant panoramas and subway cars into moving murals. Later, graffiti artists began to paint on canvas or large sheets of paper, attracting the attention of art dealers and collectors. One of the first dealers to collect graffiti was Sidney Janis. His heirs Carroll and Conrad Janis donated almost fifty works from his estate to the Brooklyn Museum in 1999. Graffiti is drawn primarily from this gift and supplemented by material the Museum's Libraries and Archives.

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.

Jesus2.0 - tape sculpture from mark jenkins and the Graffiti Research Lab (GRL) at Eyebeam

class at parsons for art students or computer scentists.

Street Art and Graffiti Bike Tour
Saturday, May 6

12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Corner of York and Jay St. (Brooklyn) MAP
By subway: Take F train to York St.

New York photobloggers Jake Dobkin (bluejake.com), Mike Epstein (satanslaundromat.com) and Will Sherman (untitledname.com) lead a tour of graffiti and street art covering DUMBO, Gowanus and Red Hook. We’ll see the latest stickers, throw-ups, paste-ups, murals and more. About 10 miles with frequent stops to see the art, and a stop for food and drink.

UPDATE 5/3/05: The ride is on. Please check back on the morning of May 6 for a final decison regarding rain and bad weather.

Questions? email will at untitledname.com
See other events in Bike Month 2006.

cool videos

"Guide to books, articles, videos, magazines, and other material on hip hop, "a form of urban youth culture developed by African Americans and Latinos in New York in the seventies and eighties, originally in the Bronx." Covers music (DJing and MCing), the roots of hip hop music, break-dancing, graffiti, and related subjects. From the New York University Libraries." (via LII)

"On a broad scale we hope to create a conversation between scholars, artists and activists interested in a variety of issues related to communication in public spaces."

A long bibliography including scholarly and non-scholarly sources on Graffiti.