The goal of the GRL is “to technologically empower individuals to creatively alter and reclaim their surroundings from commercial and corporate culture”: this means, more than making new graffiti, that the GRL gives graffiti writers new tools and ideas that could help them to perform their art. For instance, Powderly’s LED technology allows the writer to surround his graffiti with a halo of brilliant light, while Roth’s Graffity Analysis uses sophisticated motion-tracking techniques and custom-written code to analyze and record a graffiti writer’s hand movement over time and ghostly reproduce it on some buildings.
Of course all this process can’t go separately from the Web: while international digital galleries hosting street art are constantly growing, free online documentation about graffiti is now available on the Graffiti Research Lab website.
Only one question remains unsolved: are we sure the graffiti world, ruled by the code of the street, is likely to be patterned within researches and studies? Or should it go wild, along the walls of the metropolis, following its own inspiration, with its ears always opened for the police’s sirens?
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