Graffiti Geeks Strike: Virtual Vandalism Taught at N.Y. College
By Austin Fenner
New York Post
May 12, 2007
It’s new-school graffiti – and it’s being taught in college.
The elite Parsons New School for Design is offering a college course that employs modern, computer-graphic lighting techniques to give a new twist to the ghetto-inspired art form.
But the class has already garnered hardcore foes who gripe that it’s destined to still create vandalism.
The Parsons course is called “Geek Graffiti” and is offered as part of the Master’s program.
To its artists, aerosol cans of spray paint and the subway cars they might have once targeted are so 20th century.
The techniques taught allow them to instead virtually, rather than literally, put their names on Mount Rushmore and on the George Washington Bridge.
One new-graffiti artist’s ultimate dream, for example, was realized when he used computers and neon blue lights to project a towering image of himself, writing his tag “Jeff” and “Jesus Saves,” across the majestic backdrop of the Washington Square Park arch. Continue reading “Look up in the sky. It’s a bird, it’s a plane… it’s graffiti!”
