Now, you can get the chance to try it out for yourself at Perth Concert Hall's Glowing Throwies workshops. Build your own state-of-the-art 'throwie' from a battery, a light-emitting diode and a magnet. Then launch the throwie onto the steel girders of the glazed façade of the concert hall, making it all glow.
The workshops are open to young people age 12+ and are led by New Zealand-born Perthshire based artist and electronics guru Simon Bogle, who studied Applied Computing at the University of Dundee. "I am very pleased that Threshold artspace, Scotland's only dedicated gallery for digital art, is the first venue in the UK to offer this exciting opportunity to a new generation of graffiti artists from across Perthshire,"Â says Iliyana Nedkova, Creative Director of New Media Art at Horsecross.
"What's more, we will extend the spectacle by creating a brand-new short film about the arrival of the glowing throwies in Perth. The new film by Simon Bogle which will include snippets of electronic graffiti produced by Perth's young artists will be unveiled at the end of the workshop on 2 December. It will make up part of our new festive exhibition called Sparkle and can be seen on the 22 screens of the Threshold Wave."Â
This is the first partnership project between Horsecross, eyebeam, New York and eyebeam's Graffiti Research Lab dedicated to outfitting graffiti artists with open source technologies for urban communication.
By www.horsecross.co.uk
Posted December 22nd, 2006 by ruzik_tuzik
