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What qualifies something as unusually geeky street graffiti? In some cases it is the content but in many instances it is the methods employed in its creation. Here are seven more geek graffiti projects that comment on and employ tools of the digital age to reinterpret traditional street art approaches or convey contemporary messages via new media.

The GraffitiWriter is a remote-control robot that can write any programmed or instructed text message on the ground as it travels at speeds of up to 8 miles per hour. This dot matrix printer-on-wheels circumvents the potential problems graffiti writers might encounter with the authorities. It can also be equipped with non-permanent rain washable paints and deploy these rather than normal graffiti sprays as it traverses the urban environment.

The PixelRoller is an intentional cross between conventional and manual printing methods, combining the ease of computer-age printing with the creativity of manual printing. This graffiti creation tool can be programmed to print any number of patterns with uniqueness and variability contingent upon the way these patterns are then ‘rolled’ on to a surface.

A few magnets, cheap cardboard, a laser cutter and a few other odds and ends were used to create the so-called CCTV Reminder. The basic idea is to leave non-operational reminders of the closed circuit television surveillance one might find oneself in when in various public contexts. In addition to the silhouette of a camera a simply battery-operated red light adds a final jarring touch of realism.

The Graffiti Research Lab, known for architectural light projection graffiti and other projects, developed the ElectroGraff method for embedding movable LED display electronics. Using conductive spray-paint and magnetic paint they are able to attach the display elements and power them without recourse to traditional and more-visible methods.

This simple Hello Nametag device replicates a common mode of self-labeling found in stranger-filled situations like business conferences and reapplies them to objects in the public realm. Programmed to speak the name of any desired urban furniture these can be stuck to virtually any surface and invite interaction by passers by.

Ascii Graffiti is perhaps some of the earliest computer geek-oriented graffiti around. While it rarely leaves the digital realm it does appropriate compositional and stylistic conventions from traditional spray-painted graffiti and reinterprets them for computer display.

Perhaps the ultimate in digital-age geek graffiti, Tagging in Motion (shown above) is a kind of three-dimensional street graffiti using a virtual reality interface coupled with digital rendering. The graffiti artist is taped by multiple cameras throughout his spraying motions in 3D space, generating street art that requires no physical surface and leaves no trace in physical reality like other creative urban light art

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What makes great graffiti into geek graffiti? It can be the approach, using nifty computer equipment to generate graffiti (for example). It can also be the content, as in the case of pixelated, projected or or even “physically hyperlinked” street art. The following examples span the spectrum but share elements only a geek can fully appreciate. And see more under 100+ Works of Creative and Geeky Art and Graffiti.

Hektor “is a portable spray-paint output device for laptop computers.” In essence, it is a machine that packs into a suitcase but that can be rapidly deployed to plot out digitally created graffiti on urban surfaces or at art shows. This geeky graffiti art project is even open source, with the technology made available to anyone who wants to use it. The low-tech nature of production results in interesting ambiguities that inform the finished works and make even repeat pieces varied and original.

Graffiti Taxonomy starts with finding tags in a given area (e.g. the Lower East Side) and distilled into font-like digital representations. They are then sorted by letter to compare the differences from one tagger’s work to the next. Finally, they are printed out as collections and pasted on public surfaces, a kind of geeky intellectual meta-graffiti.

Grafedia is an interactive process of ‘linking’ the real world and in the internet (yes, double-meaning intended). People submit media files (images, text or video) to the Grafedia website then scrawl email addresses on real world walls that, if emailed, will return that media file to the emailer – a “real-life hyperlink with urban surfaces as webpages.”

Bikes Against Bush was part interactive protest and part performance art set in the streets of New York City. “Internet enabled bicycle outfitted with a custom-designed printing device, the Bikes Against Bush bicycle can print text messages sent from web users directly onto the streets of Manhattan in water-soluble chalk.” A few years back, the Bikes Against Bush project encountered legal trouble but the charges were dismissed.

The SMS Guerilla Projector “is a high powered, home made projection device that can be used to project SMS messages on to buildings, signs or any other surface.” A mobile phone, camera lense and slide projector are combined to create this light graffiti device that can be used to broadcast visual messages many times the size of the device itself and on prominent urban surfaces.

The TXTualHealing mobile projection idea would work great with the guerilla projecter above. Messages are texted to laptops attached to projects and broadcast in realtime at set locations all the way from Munich, Germany to Toronto, Canada high up on buildings in crowded places. The short film above demonstrates this strange street art in action. For more, here is a great illustrated guide to graffiti around the world as well as related articles on architectural light graffiti and 3D street art. Know of more? Add them in the comments below!

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