Tagging on Museum Wall

L.A.S.E.R. Tagging by Theodore Watson at NEMO Science Center in Amsterdam

On Saturday November 3 the Amsterdam Museum Night (’n8′) took place for the 8th time. 42 Museums opened their doors between 7 pm and 2 am for an incredible amount of 26.000 visitors, most of whom were under 35. Each year the organisation of the n8 invites an artist to create a work of art to be displayed in the public space of Amsterdam. This year it had invited Theo Watson of the Graffiti Research Lab (GRL), a ‘guerilla’ unit “dedicated to outfitting graffiti artists with open source technologies for urban communication.” The GRL is affiliated with Eyebeam, an art and technology center from New York.

The GRL employs a self-developed system called L.A.S.E.R. Tag, which is a technology that allows people to tag walls without damaging them. You simply erase the graffiti by clearing the projection. In Amsterdam Theo Watson used the outside wall of Science Center NEMO (a Renzo Piano building) as his surface. Hundreds of people have had the opportunity to write on the museum’s wall which made this interactive installation a great success. Furthermore, it was visible from a huge distance, so innocent passers-by were confronted with coded messages, shameless branding and ingenious drawings from hundreds of meters away.

L.A.S.E.R. Tag
Theodore Watson
Eyebeam
Amsterdam Museum Night

This entry was written by Juha van 't Zelfde, posted on november 6, 2007 at 2:30 pm, filed under Art, Technology and tagged amsterdam, Graffiti Research Lab, L.A.S., NEMO Science Center, New York, open source technologies, Renzo Piano building, technology center, Theo Watson, Theodore Watson. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.