Turns out Abe is already working on a video graffiti project with his art group Four Seven. They use “a mobile digital projection system” to transform “the arcitecture of the city into a video canvas. Graffiti is built out of pure light.” My main questions about this system is: how much does a setup like this cost? I have the feeling adequate equipment is going to be prohibitvly expensive. Of course I don’t expect the video graffiti movement’s materials to be as cheap as spray paint, but it shouldn’t cost more than a couple hundred bucks.
On the bright side, projecting video on blank walls might not even qualify as “graffiti” in the legal sense of the word.
I wonder if some form of SMS or ringtone spamming/hacking might be more effecient.
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Abe posted a pretty lengthy run down of what they’re using over at Margin Walker: http://www.marginwalker.org/index.php?itemid=106
It is indeed prohibitively expensive and bulky and only works at night. A day light projector would run about $15,000.
hi from Julio Katrina amazing page see a later tomorrow or never
Very interesting !
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