GRAFARC nominated for Webby Awards!

Wow! Graffiti Archaeology has been nominated for the 9th annual Webby Awards, in two categories: Arts and Best Navigation/Structure. It’s pretty funny to see our little site, which was basically developed by two people with the help of a handful of friends, up there next to sites like Google!

Since I don’t anticipate being up at a podium any time soon, let me take this opportunity to say a big public thank you to Eric at Stamen Design, and all of the photographers without whose contributions the site would be pretty boring, and of course all the writers out there for their tireless insanity.

Congratulations to all the other nominees, especially my friend Spot and his amazing project Electric Sheep!

GRAFARC accepted to FILE Festival

Grafarc was just accepted to the FILE Festival (International Festival of Electronic Language) in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The festival will be held from November 22nd to December 12th, 2004.

Street Talk: An Urban Computing Happening

I’ll be giving a brief presentation about GRAFARC at Street Talk: An Urban Computing Happening at Intel Research Berkeley on July 16th, 2004. The event itself will have limited space, but everyone is welcome at the Urban After party at Rx Gallery in San Francisco (from 6pm on.)

GRAFARC at SIGGRAPH 2004: date confirmed

GRAFARC will be in the Visualization section of Web Graphics at SIGGRAPH 2004, on Wednesday, August 11 at 8:30am in room 501B of the LA Convention Center.

GRAFARC accepted to SIGGRAPH 2004

This just in: GRAFARC has been accepted to the Web Graphics program at SIGGRAPH 2004. I’ll be giving a half-hour talk about it sometime during the week of August 8-12 in Los Angeles. Stay tuned for more details.

GRAFARC on CNN Headline News

Today GRAFARC was featured on CNN Headline News. They invited me in to their San Francisco studio for a two-minute interview. It was a pretty crazy experience: the news anchor was in Atlanta, and though I could hear her voice through the little Agent Smith style earbud they gave me, I never once saw her face. In fact, since the camera was robotic, there wasn’t anyone else in the room at all, except Eric, who was there to take pictures and try to make me crack up on camera. Here’s what the studio looks like:

Photos from DORKBOT-SF

The DORKBOT-SF event was a blast! Here are some photos:

Also, the fine fellows at False Profit asked me to put the word out: the wall in front of their space is an open canvas for artists. Right now there’s some excellent work up there by D23. Anyone interested in painting there, please contact them.

GRAFARC at DORKBOT-SF

I’ll be giving a presentation about the making of Graffiti Archaeology at the DORKBOT-SF event next week: Wednesday, January 14th at 7:30pm, at False Profit. Save the date!

GRAFARC in Wired News

Wired News has written a nice article about us: Digging Down Deep for Graffiti by Noah Shachtman. (And sorry, KR, about the slowness, we are still working out the bugs!)

Memepool and MetaFilter!

We’ve been blogged by Boing Boing, Memepool and Metafilter. Welcome everybody! Hope you enjoy your visit. (Hey tenseone: we dream of recreating Psycho City. Do you have any flix? If so, let us know!)