Jerrem here again from Perth. Just a quick post about some of the new Technology Ive been using…
1. TAGTOOL
Ive modified my equipment so it can now run Tagtool. Tagtool is an Open Source hardware and software solution for live drawing and animation. YES this is the cool part.. we can now animate our digital graffiti. Tagtool was designed by OMA International who are based in Vienna, Austria. Its also been used by other GRL cells such as GRL brasil (they have an even cooler colour changing one!)
above: the setup complete
below: the general public using the system at the sydney design festival…
To get it working you need to wire up a customised controller based on the Arduino micro controller and run it with tagtool’s open source software. You can find all build info from the DIY section of the tagtool website.
Its a great solution and I’m looking forward to using the software more in the future.
2. Smallest Projector Bombing set-up
I’m quite sure this is the most portable projector bombing set-up to date
above: yes thats a projector, yes its the size of a mobile phone and yes it runs of batteries and has built in video storage. I took it up to the summit of Mt Kinabalu in Borneo for the highest digital graffiti or video art for that matter on earth. see the video below.
They call them pico projectors they use LEDs as a light source so the “globe” should last for ages. It surprised me with its usefulness, just don’t expect a clear image much bigger than a few metres. With an AV connector I can also use my mobile phone (mines a nokia n97) to do some live drawing too, or run some interactive flash games. Just the fact that this thing can just sit in my pocket means that there are now lots more digital graffiti projects that are now at arms reach. This is first generation technology however so they will hopefully get smaller, brighter and cheaper.. hopefully one day all mobile phones will have them integrated.
theres also a little more detail on my blog www.jerrem.com/notes . You also might wanna check my post about projector bombing ololo’s massive graffiti art carpark here
Hi All, Jerrem here again, even more madness going down in Perth.
Local Arts crew Ololo teamed up with WBMC to form Reface, a celebration and exploration of Street art. The project includes a ABC backed website which enables people the world over to upload and discuss images of street art. Once collected the images are then projected back onto the streets of Perth. As a result the Perth has become a real world gallery of illuminated street art as submitted in cyberspace. Its interesting how people react to the no descructive copies of real world “vandalism”.
So I teamed up with the Reface guys over a series of nights we gave Perth its heaviest projector bombing yet, Eight projectors blasting one location. The street art and graffiti photos refaced buildings alongside realtime interactive street art, in the form of Digital Painting, Laser tag and infrared spray cans.
above: some important dude using laser tag
below: Steve Berrick’s IR spray paint, digital painting
you can also check my blog on this here.
dont forget to check out the Reface website
More Photon Graffiti in Perth, I think I’ll just let these images talk for themselves.
for more info check www.jerrem.com
big thanks to VJzoo for bringing there brilliant selves and gear, and posting the video below!
Also worth noting is the upcoming Re-Face Project in Perth. Street Art collective Ololo and Production company WBMC have joined forces and will be calling for artwork (I assume nationally) to project all over Perth.
Check out the website here… http://www.abc.net.au/tv/reface/ and give them your support!
Hi All. Lachlan from the southern tip of the country checking in…
The Wii experiments that I tipped off a few months ago have come into reality over the last few days in the form of a touring interactive event for Adelaide’s Feast Festival and in collaboration with the lovely illustrator: Jo Kerlogue. The projects basically turned into a non-laser Wii solution to Laser Tag - effectively liberating the restrictions placed on Lasers and thus Laser Tag in our Laser impoverished country.
What’s more - with the Wii you have buttons!!!!! Which brings me to the coolest element of it - the creation of massive digital puppets that crawl across the wall under your control (seen above in Kevin’s territory marking ritual). You can not only move and manipulate them - but also change their appearance in a plethora of different permeations to create weird and wacky characters.
But enough talk! Let’s see it in action! Well I’m still kind of in the heat of it all at the moment - there’s another event tonight in Unley followed by another next Thursday. And I’ll be putting video up asap… but for the moment - here’s a flyer and a couple of images from a under developed version at the FEAST Festival Opening (images thanks to Heath Britton and support thanks to Carclew, Adelaide City Council, Unley City Council and Mt. Barker City Council):
Ive just returned from a video art residency on Christmas Island, Its a tiny Australian territory in the Indian Ocean. Check out some of the digital graffiti the locals and I got upto….
virtual crabs projected onto the beach… (dont tell me my projector doesnt live a fun and salty life)
I kinda lucked out and had a vacancy for a month in the PINE ST gallery as melb stencil fest dropped out. So i scrambled together my pre-existent branding from 3 years of street art/diy fests in Adelaide (st5k). As we were making events we wanted something a bit edgy and to spread some of the GRL ethos. I have been quiet on this event as i spent 3 weeks moving syd council logos about on our media and the graff word is forbidden on council docs. GRL was my backdoor way around this. Any way besides showing off throwies, videos, and slides in our gallery - i have got Mickie Quick - one of Australia’s finest culture jammers (see his refugee islands). Also an inspiration to his and my own practice will hopefully be some of the guys from B.U.G.A.U.P. (Billboard Utilising Graffitists Against Unhealthy Promotions) - our own aussie national culture hackers founded in the late 70s.
We have a month of events also but you can find that elsewhere
Here’s the poster anyhow:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/konsumterra/2858792282/
heres a pic of Mickey Quick’s famous baby:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/konsumterra/1879756073/in/set-72157602945073407
he will possibly appear on a channel 10 guerilla urban re-decoration reality show???!!!
On my more recent flickr posts include opening fest night, recent melbourne trip and Paste Modern - a multi-story building paste up event of whos who in syd street art.
Good evening comrades. Adelaide’s Lachlan Tetlow-Stuart here bursting his GRL blog cherry.
GRL Australia!!! Where’s the content??? What’s happening???? ___ This drastic situation has pushed me far past the bounds of normality into the field of productivity. So far into this unknown territory that I recently found myself dabbling in some digital distractions in collaboration with the lovely Danica Wells-Heitmann in Adelaide’s city centre…
Check it:
Great stuff Jereme and Curious. Interestingly the tech wonders of the Wiimote is also my next project at hand. Looking to create some massive interactive digital puppets for Adelaide’s Feast Festival that can be both created by the gen public and manipulated to play games etc… Will definitely post it when it happens. Keep up the lovely work all. Let’s see some more…!
Jerrem here reporting from WestAus. Big Cheers to Shakthi and the Sydney crew for getting the site sorted!
great to hear you guys are also onto the enormous potential of the Wiimote! I’ve been working on getting it to work on the largest scale possible. Will post some pics of some of my diy infrared “brushes” soon.
In the meantime check out some of the Vids of our street projection nights in and around Perth. Been using a tablet PC, wii remote - infrared and GRL NY’s LaserTag.
above: Street Projecting (laser, infrared and tablet) - Northbridge, WA
above: Digital Car Respray -Mt Lawely, WA
above: virtual fridge magnets - West Perth, WA
for more info check out www.jerrem.com/notes
more info on here as things they happen
Warning! This video is rather dry - it’s a how-to. It explains how to turn any surface of your environment into an interactive space.
In April this year CuriousWorks spent an intensely productive three weeks as in-residence artists at Casula Powerhouse. This was the setting for our first-ever Kinect lab. Kinect is a place for us to research and develop creative uses of everyday objects and technologies - and the following video explains how to do just that.
Shout out to Johnny Lee for coming up with the brilliant wiimote whiteboard software.
