Comments on: The Inkjet City

By: City Printer / Was wir denken, das drucken wir auf die Straße | *urbanshit.de

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:05:29 +0000

[...] popup city Bild 1: Chalkbot Projektwebsite, Nike Bild 2: “Werbung im Stadtraum”, Verlag Bauwesen, [...]

By: Robot-Printed Facades — The Pop-Up City

Robot-Printed Facades — The Pop-Up City — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:34:40 +0000

[...] we already introduced the Nike Chalkbot used to add supporting and commercial texts to the streets during the Tour de France. Here’s [...]

By: Auke

Auke — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:58:33 +0000

Let's make the whole picture, and go back to the first New-Media artwork that laid the conceptual groundwork for this 'advertising campaign': Since 1998, the Institute for Applied Autonomy has been inventing and building robots to protest the militarization of robotics research and to reassert the public's ownership of public space. Among the machines they produced were GraffitiWriter, a small remote controlled robot capable of printing high-speed text graffiti on the pavement while driving, StreetWriter, a black cargo van capable of printing large text messages the width of a traffic lane while driving, and SWX a more compact trailer version of the same. IAA released a press statement about the Nike Chalkbot Rips-off of Streetwriter: http://www.appliedautonomy.com/chalkbot.html Check also Golan Levin's (and Collaborators) post about how new-media artworks laid the conceptual groundwork for everyday commercial products while they remain unrecognized as such thus creating a 'cultural blindspot': http://www.flong.com/blog/archives/334

By: Auke

Auke — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:19:27 +0000

Combine the two and you have an (inspirational?) ancestor from the Bush Era:

Bikes Against Bush is an interactive protest/performance occurring simultaneously online and on the streets of NYC during the Republican National Convention. Using a wireless 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.

http://a.parsons.edu/~jk/thesis/archives/video.html