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Released in the iPhone App Store on JAN 5th!!!

A pocket sized digital graffiti blackbook designed for recording more than just ink.

DustTag is an iPhone application designed for graffiti writers that visualizes the motion involved in the creation of a tag. Motion data is recorded, analyzed and archived in a free and open database, 000000book.com, where writers can share 3-D animated representations of their hand styles. All tags created in DustTag are saved as Graffiti Markup Language (GML) files, a new digital standard used by other popular graffiti applications such as Laser Tag and EyeWriter. DustTag is fully compatible with the Graffiti Analysis 2.0 software suite, which is available online for free at graffitianalysis.com and can be used to playback DustTag creations from the iPhone on your OSX, Windows or Linux desktop systems.

DustTag was created by artist and Graffiti Research Lab co-founder Evan Roth, and artist and openFrameworks guru Chris Sugrue. Graffiti Analysis is an open source initiative built in openFrameworks and is available online for free at graffitianalysis.com

http://eyewriter.org

The EyeWriter project is an ongoing collaborative research effort to empower people, who are suffering from ALS, with creative technologies. It is a low-cost eye-tracking apparatus & custom software that allows graffiti writers and artists with paralysis resulting from Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to draw using only their eyes.

Here's the latest from artist Evan Roth. Graffiti Analysis 2.0 (Digital Blackbook) from his recent exhibition at the BLK River Festival in Vienna. Keep your eyes peeled for the open data base of motion capture graffiti data he's been developing from writers all over the world. It should be released publicly within the next few weeks.

Originally published on http://www.blog.ni9e.com

I know the last thing anyone wants to hear are artists whining about money (trust me I am one of them). But with all the hype surrounding SXSW I thought I would chime in with why I won't be in Austin this week amongst all of the web 2.0 illuminati twittering and drinking Mexican beers.

A couple of months ago I had a conversation with SXSW that went something like this:

SXSW: Hi, we'd like to invite Graffiti Research Lab to keynote at SXSW!
Me: Great. Thanks for the invitation. Our standard fee is $X.
SXSW: Oh, we only pay for flights and hotel.
Me: Really? Even for a keynote? Giving talks is in part how we pay for rent and food. How about $X/2
SXSW: Nope. Airfare and hotel.
Me: How about you just pay for meals while we're in Austin so we aren't losing money?
SXSW: Nope. Airfare and hotel.
Me: Thanks, but no thanks

Zoë Keating
Wednesday, March 11th at 7:15pm
Location: Imperial Ballroom in the Fairmont Hotel
170 S. Market Street, San Jose, CA 95113 (map)

Using a 17th Century Instrument to Create the Music of the 21st Century

Armed with her cello and a computer, Zoë Keating is a one-woman orchestra. She records layer upon layer of cello, her feet dancing over an array of pedals to transform her solo performances into multipart works. Classically trained from the age of eight, Zoë spent her post-graduate years working in computer software and moonlighting as a cellist. Inevitably, she combined the two, and developed her signature style while improvising for late night crowds in San Francisco warehouse spaces.

Zoë's self-produced album, "One Cello x 16: Natoma", was #1 on the iTunes Classical charts and #2 in iTunes Electronica. She has performed on NPR, written music for film and played with Imogen Heap, Mark Isham, DJ Shadow, The Dresden Dolls, Paolo Nutini and Rasputina.

She is the recipient of a 2005 Belle Foundation grant and a 2009 Creative Capital performing arts grant.

• Zoë performing her composition, "Tetrishead"
• Zoë performing her composition, "Sun Will Set"

www.zoekeating.com

James Powderly (above) of GRAFFITI RESEARCH LAB talking about GRL's installation at Anno Domini gallery. "The U.S. Department of Homeland Graffiti Liquidation Sale" was the debut gallery exhibition for GRL. This exhibition was timed to coincide with the 2008 01SJ biennial in San Jose, CA. Visit http://galleryad.com/past_exhibits/grl08/ to read the artist's statement and view pics from their installation. Video produced by Carleton College Cinema & Media Studies.

G.R.L. R.I.P 9/2/06 - 12/12/08.

It's been quite a week to live in San Jose. We've had Akira Hasegawa in town, etoy corporation sharing Mission Eternity, pigeonblog overhead, Neighborhood Public Radio in the wired, San Jose Voices broadcasting our thoughts to the populus as they stroll by, Feral Robotic Dog packs led by Natalie Jeremijenko, ...it's the city we wanted to live in for just a week.

Well tonight is the closing party. A chance to say farewell to our new international friends on the streets of SoFA. Come out and join us all from 6 'til midnight with 3 stages of music starting at Anno Domini and ending at MACLA on South FIRST STREET. The San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art presents A Painting Performance, a multi-media, interactive street event, by new media artist Clive McCarthy. His performance begins at sunset right in the middle of it all (451 South First Street). See you downtown!

So we hung out with Steve Lambert on Sunday (it was his birthday!) installing Simmer Down Sprinter at Anno Domini. His art project, posing as an arcade video game, has been getting some great attention across the blogosphere. The great news is that starting today, Tuesday, August 8th through Saturday, August 12th you can drop by Anno Domini and experience it in person.

PigeonBlog provides an alternative way to participate in environmental air pollution data gathering. The project equips urban homing pigeons with GPS enabled electronic air pollution sensing devices capable of sending real-time location based air pollution and image data to an online mapping/blogging environment. Pigeonblog is a social public experiment between human and non-human animals.

Watch for the feathered data-collectors overhead here in town for ISEA 2006 / ZeroOne San Jose; they're scheduled to be released daily from August 8-12. They'll be in Irvine for TechnoSpheres on August 18th and then in Newport Beach for UbiComp on September 18, 2006.