Imagine a typical first day of school at Naba University, Milan. You come in, slapping high-fives with your mates and start an intensive workshop for creating interactive digital graffiti (Diffiti), designing small computer games, and project your content all over the school walls. On other classes near by, Crispin Jones runs a workshop that deals with personalization of future mobile phone, and Elio Caccavale’s workshop deals with DNA modifications, hypothetical products and social fictional scenarios that engage students’ imaginations.
…Who said the first day of school is always the hardest?

What is Diffiti

Diffiti is simply the art of digital graffiti, which came to the public awareness mostly by Graffiti Research Lab, an art group dedicated to outfitting graffiti writers, artists and protesters with open source technologies for urban communication.
Since the term for this art was yet to be defined, we simply named it Diffiti.

Although Diffiti can be preformed in many ways, such as LED Throwies, L.A.S.E.R. Tag, Electrograf and High Writer, our workshop concentrated on using Projection Bombing (projecting visuals on a building’s surface), and our aim was to create interactive displays, allowing people passing-by a chance to interact with the architecture in an intuitive and playful way, remaining on large scale throughout.

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"Diffiti / Digital Graffiti" was posted on Thursday, October 18th, 2007 at 12:43 pm (4 years, 3 months ago) , It is filed under Code & Web, Education, Games, Open Source, news. You can follow the discussion on this feed or post a comment