Graffiti Research Laboratory Look At Advertising Graffiti

URB visited a mini-confab this weekend called The Creators Series, where we videotaped this straight frickin' brilliant show and tell from Graffiti Research Laboratories.

First a little editorial.

Just as the broken window theory purports that graffiti has a subliminal effect on a city's populace and can drag it down to a resigned passivity in its own decay, the perpetual visual bombardment of a populace with garishly omnipotent commercials would by necessity have an effect at least on par with what is traditionally called graffiti -- at least in severity, if not in kind, and very likely advertising's negative effect is greater since it is utilizes the moving image to captivate passersby.

In any case, herewith, two citizen activists who like many other public artists, from aerosol to laser, are advancing a single argument: why should the corrosive omnipotence of reductive product advertising hold a unique privilege over public space, one that supercedes the very rights of the public who claim it?

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[usenixuser]

Rally nice work !

keep it up

[rezen1983]

yeah word up theres also the magnet mafia in denver co check em out

[jisshizzles]

the music is "El Pico" by Ratatat.

[TheSchimmi]

so is it legal if it's not permanent?

[cornfused11]

I believe it is El Pico by Ratatat

[Terrekon]

legalize art!

[wavelessocean]

i love the music, what is it?

[DETROIT010]

Peace and Love from Detroit.

[rigaude]

Nice argument. I hope to hear more from GRL and the AAA.

[hoodrichsucka]

True that.