Please join us Wednesday October 3rd at 7pm; at San Jose City Hall,
Council Chambers, for a talk given James Powderly and Evan Roth of
the Graffiti Research Lab.

The G.R.L. has embarked on a mission: to revolutionize tools and
languages of urban artists with cheap technology and open knowledge.
The lab is dedicated to outfitting graffiti writers, artists and
protesters with open source tools for urban communication. The goal
of the G.R.L. is to technologically empower individuals to creatively
alter and reclaim their surroundings from commercial and corporate
culture. G.R.L. agents are currently working in the lab and in the
field to develop and test a range of experimental technologies for
the state-of-the-art graffiti writer. Their website documents those
efforts with video documentation and DIY instructions for each
project. < http://graffitiresearchlab.com>

James Powderly is a maverick hobbyist dabbling at the fringes of
robotics, chemistry, writing, pyrotechnics, graffiti and art. As a
Fellow in the Eyebeam R&D OpenLab for the last year James has
developed experimental creative technologies and media for the public
domain. Powderly was an engineer and the Director of Technology
Development at Honeybee Robotics, and a Manhattan-based NASA
contractor. He worked on developing the Mars Exploration Rover's Rock
Abrasion Tool and built a wall drilling robot for Diller + Scofidio's
retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Powderly has
been awarded numerous grants, fellowships and awards, including an
Award of Distinction in 2006 from Ars Electronica for his work with
the Graffiti Research Lab. His work can be found on the surface of
Mars and other people's walls throughout the U.S. and Europe. In the
Spring, he will begin teaching a class at Parsons Communication
Design and Technology program called, "Disruptive Home Economics".

Evan Roth is a recent MFA graduate from the Design Technology
department at Parsons where he was his class valedictorian. He is the
creator of Graffitti Analysis video, a project that uses motion
tracking, computer vision technology, and a custom C++ application to
record and analyze a graffiti writer's pen movement over time. Evan's
media experiments also include Explicit Content Only, Postal Lables
Against Bush video, and Graffiti Taxonomy.

If you can't make it physically, you can catch the G.R.L. in Second
Life, the talk will be streamed live to Ars Virtua in Second Life
<http://slurl.com/secondlife/Seventh%20Eye/6/77/48 >


Sam Gould of Red76 and Matthew Coolidge of CLUI's lectures are
available as podcasts:

the rss ( for subscription with iTunes and such)

http://dma.sjsu.edu/fuse/conversation/fuse_conversation.xml