http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iC3Lh6XaOc
Came across a post on Graffiti Research Labs today, and a link to some of their projects. They're just one of the groups supported by Eyebeam, a non-profit arts and technology group in NY, who promote creative use of new technologies through funding art, education and exhibitions.
GRL's LED Throwies project documents guerrilla art projects, and gives instructions in how to make these non-permanent, illuminated, magnetic objects. The throwies are certainly a beautiful way to make statements in public places e.g. Night Writer. But perhaps just too pretty to be considered subversive. Is it grafitti, or is it art? Can it be both?
Curiously, while the light cells last for just 2 weeks, the question of how to dispose of the remaining batteries in a non-harmful way seems to provoke more debate than the projects themselves.
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