Graffiti writer, artist, and friend of the G.R.L. AVONE has recently been incarcerated on charges of vandalism. To view video and learn more about how you can help click here.

The Ides of March bring Open City online, Click here for video (or here for the youtube clip).

Peep work from 11 of the artists, pranksters and villains featured in the exhibition, as well as outtakes of Mark Jenkins going over the GRL, KR going over Eyebeam and Aram Bartholl getting coffee. Continue to stay tuned to this same graff channel for updates on exhibition workshops, screenings and public interventions.

Photos tagged with “opencity” and “eyebeam” on flickr.

Open City Continues:
March 1 – April 7
Eyebeam, 540 west 21st Street
New York City

Upcoming screenings and workshops:

Thursday, March 15:
7:30pm Screening Night: Still We Ride (37 min), with introduction by directors Andrew Lynn and Elizabeth Press

Dusk – G.R.L. Laser Tag sortie (weather permitting)

Saturday, March 17:
3-5pm Open City workshops with local artists:
Leon Reid – How To Become Invisible
GRL- Overview of Laser Tag and the Mobile Broadcast Unit
Steve Lambert – Shop Dropping

Mark Jenkins Goes Over the G.R.L., Click here for video (or here for the youtube clip).

KR goes over Eyebeam, Click here for video (or here for the youtube clip).

Getting coffee with Aram, Click here for video (or here for the youtube clip).

The GRL will be screening the definitive street bombing documentary, STATE YOUR NAME, this Thursday, March 8th, at Eyebeam as part of the Open City Exhibition. OZSER will introduce the documentary at 7:30PM.

STATE YOUR NAME
w/ an introduction by the filmmaker
Thursday, March 8, 7:30PM

For directions to Eyebeam click here.

…the opening reception for Open City is Thursday night.

Produced by the GRL. That’s why we’re standing in the photo like it’s our rap video. Bling’n harder than Diddy.

In truth it’s your opening night with over sixty uncurated 22 x 41 pixel animations submitted via email from writers, artists, activists, jokers, lunatics and 13 year-olds out there on the web.

Turn off your cell phone. Here’s the feature presentation.

New work from the GRL in the fog of Rotterdam.

Justseeds Art Show & Street Art Workers release party.

Justseeds.org and Visual Resistance present a one-night benefit art show and sale at Ad Hoc Art, Thursday February 8, 2007

Ad Hoc Art (www.adhocart.org)
49 Bogart St.
Brooklyn NY 11206

You may have heard about the most recent terror attacks in Boston. This is NOT the work of the Graffiti Research Lab. We just downloaded this link from youtube. It’s Just more mindless corporate vandalism from a guerilla marketer who got busted. Interference Inc, welcome to the world of being misunderstood, scapegoated, demonized and wanted by the law. Still wanna be a graffiti artist?

For more on this most recent terror attack from the axis of evil (corporations, advertisers, marketers) check out this civic-minded citizens post on Flickr

UPDATE: FREE BERDOVSKY!

An arrest has been made in the Boston Terror Advert Mind Shred of 2007. Read about it here. No it’s not a VP at Turner Broadcasting, the president of the ad agency or CEO Sam Travis Ewen of the marketing company. It’s the 27 year-old artist who was hired to stick the ads up. Turns out the corporation is real sorry about all this and had a cartoon say so on the TV. Probably not as sorry as the guy being hauled-off in cuffs.

Click Here to buy exhibit A.

additional links:
Editorial on the Anti-Advertising Agency site.
Channel 11 NYC local news 01.31.07

Calling all writers, street artists, prankster, bikers, protesters, citizens and untouchables! The Graffiti Research Lab will be in Rotterdam from February 7th through the 10th. We’re taking control of the Renzo Piano KPN Telecom Building and turning the Kop Van Zuid into the People’s Revolutionary Green Laser Light District. We are turning the 37 x 72 meter screen into a place to display your uncurated animations and graphics. The back-side of the KPN is becoming a giant open wall you can write on with a BFL (big fucking laser). And throughout the week, the G.R.L. will venture outside the green zone on sorties to laser tag and projection bomb the city of Rotterdam on the BORF riot bike. Join us!

Check out our raw proof-of-concept laser tag R&D:

How to get involved:

If you are near Rotterdam, hook up with us on the opening night of the Rotterdamn Art Fair (February 7th) and contribute your hand styles to the KPN tower. Send us an email or cell number to megaohmresistor at hotmail dot com to receive electronic and SMS messages regarding the dates and times of actions in Rotterdam and Amsterdam in early February.

If you can’t make it to the Netherlands in February, send us your own animations and graphics for the LED facade on the KPN Building. The KPN Telecom building features a 70 meter tall low resolution LED facade. Send us your 22 pixel wide by 41 tall monochrome animated gifs or quicktime movies and we will convert them to work on the big screen. Animation will operate at 4 frames per second. No curation (except hate speech we don’t agree with) or any corporate logo. Submit you animations to fi5e at ni9e dot com. We need your animations by the 6th of February. We will document every animation and post video and flicks online.

For more information about the KPN building click on the links below:
http://wdka.hro.nl/~kpn/
http://www.daanemmen.nl/homoludens/index.html
http://rotterdam.siggraph.org/archive/kpn/kpn.html
http://www.ergaster.com/screen/site/pags/toz2.html

Advertising is the mindless vandalism of the Fortune 500. And despite that, we still don’t like it.

Between November 2006 and January 2007, the City of New York has brought down over 59 illegal banners on construction sheds. In that same period, Citibank was forced to remove all illegal sidewalk projections at branches around Manhattan. And now, years into New York City’s war on graffiti writers and protesters, after we’ve watched our friends be detained, arrested, beat, fined, tried, and given real jail sentences, not a single corporate toy from any ad firm has had to do any time.

This could mean only one thing. They’ve called off the law. Open City. Let’s all get to work.

Drink it straight from the hose at the Anti-Advertising Agency
or here on youtube.

This is the first collaboration between the Anti-Advertising Agency and the Graffiti Research Lab.

Bit and modified from Ji Lee’s Abstractor TV. We used black foam core ($10/sheet) cut with a laser cutter – but this project can be done with an x-acto blade, black paper, and duct tape. It can be repeated using any backlit display – bus shelters, display ads or television store windows.

Download 1024 x 768 animated gif below:
NYC’s TRUE GRAFFITI PROBLEM
GRAFFITI
GRAFFITI = ADVERTISING

For for more sneaky flicks click here

Eyebeam R&D Open Lab…Be healed!
Track By Ratatat.