\\ ON AIR 12 february 2007

1. Make Throwies not Bombs The Graffiti Research Lab
2. "Echantillon Etranger (Strange Sample) trailer by Dorothée Sorbier (Fr)
3. LOS PIES LIBRES by Grimanesa Amoros
4. Drone by Miguel Angel Tejerina (ES)
5. Random Screen by Aram Bartholl
6. Systemic abstractors versus the pubic realists by Don Relyea (USA)
7. Interactive Architure The Graffiti Research Lab
   
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"Echantillon Etranger" (Strange Sample) trailer by Dorothée Sorbier

"Echantillon Etranger (Strange Sample) is a trailer of a 16 minutes short movie. The story is divided in 4 distinct graphic phases. The movie begins with a little girl suffering a lab experiment which ends up affecting the enviroment around her with technological signals... her life becomes like level in a platform videogame, where one must find and discover the key to reach the next level"

Dorothée Sorbier was born in 1982 in Larroche Migennes, France. Graduated in Fine arts at ESI of Poitiers in 2003. and in Communication at DNSEP in 2005. Currently lives and works as graphic designer in Toulouse, France.

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LOS PIES LIBRES trailer by Grimanesa Amoros

"To have naked feet means freedom ("la libertad"). Since I was little I always had the sensation that when I freed myself from shoes, I would also free my body and the voice of my soul."

For this reason—to free her soul—, Susana chooses to perform in bare feet so that it will shine through in her voice. Susana's elation is visible in her performance, making it intensely beautiful.

She once told me of walking along a shoreline, watching the gulls float over the water. Their wings are like her bare feet, she felt, opened to the air to carry them freely in their dance with the waves and the sky. As the birds can only fly with their wings bared to the wind, so too she can only dance with her feet bared to the earth.

This video, set to her songs "Se Me Van Lo Pies" ("My Feet Are Leaving Me") is an expression of this connection that Susana makes between physical and creative freedom. These images create visual parallels, expressing the feeling of the song, of the singer, and of my own creative process.

An artist can free the soul of the viewers through an unencumbered expression of his or her experience. In this work I am both viewer and creator, this position lending me a freedom that connects me with Susana's freedom and with that of my own soul.

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Drone by Miguel Angel Tejerina

Drone tells the story of PJ. He's obsessed with the society and the way of living that it's imposed to him. He feels he's alive only to work and produce.

This short movie has been made by Miguel Angel Tejerina and is the final thesis for his degree in computer science. It is based on the song Time is Running Out by The Muse.

The author says: "The lighting tells us how the character feels, the sadder he is, the more grayish the ilumination becomes. I think that the restricted use of color in objects (most are just different shades of gray) helps to create a concrete world really awful to live in."

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Random Screen by Aram Bartholl

Random Screen is a mechanical thermodynamic screen that the user can’t control and that functions without any electricity. Conventional tea candles illuminate and generate the changes on the 4x4 pixel screen.
This work is one of a series of low-tech screen projects that was originally inspired by the Blinkenlights media façade of the Chaos Computer Club in Berlin. The predecessor of Random Screen is the Papierpixel project in which a manual screen was controlled by a punched tape system that had to be pre-programmed by hand. Random Screen takes the reduction of the electronics one step further. The pixels become independent and fire goes digital.
Each individual pixel of Random Screen is an independent unit. Core components are a projection foil, a modified beer can and a small tea candle.The candle serves as a source of light; at the same time, the warmth it gives off sets the modified beer can in motion. The can, modified into a sort of freely rotating fan mounted above the candle, can spin around freely. The candlelight shines through a window cut in the beer can onto a projection surface and makes the pixel light up. Depending on how fast the fan spins, it gently turns the respective pixel either on or off. The larger the candle’s flame, the brighter the pixel shines and the faster its switching frequency. The candlelight is diffused on a second projection foil in the middle of the pixel box in order to generate as little shadow-flickering as possible on the projection surface. The individual pixel boxes stacked on top of and next to one another form the Random Screen. The modularity of the pixels allows the screen surface to be expanded at will, and this construct’s simple components make it easy for others to copy.

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Systemic abstractors versus the pubic realists by Don Relyea

"Systemic Abstractors vs. Pubic Realists" is an exploration of conflict within a generative art work. In a traditional drawing, there is evidence of the artists efforts to push and pull the image into place. Artifacts from buildup and erasure contribute to the character of the image and leave the viewer with evidence of a struggle between man and materials. In this art work, program objects fight with one another for control, the image is the evidence of the struggle.

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Interactive Architure The Graffiti Research Lab at Art Rotterdam 2007.

The Graffiti Research Lab were in Rotterdam during Art Rotterdam . They took control of the Renzo Piano KPN Telecom Building and turning the Kop Van Zuid into the People’s Revolutionary Green Laser Light District. They turned the 37 x 72 meter screen into a place to display your uncurated animations and graphics. The back-side of the KPN became a giant open wall you can write on with a BFL (big fucking laser). And throughout the week, the G.R.L ventured outside the green zone on sorties to laser tag and projection bomb the city of Rotterdam on the BORF riot bike.