Category Archives: SVG2BVG

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Cognitive Cities & Street Lab Fest

In case you missed SVG2BVG at transmediale11, GRL Germany will have the complete set-up running for the Cognitive Cities Conference on Sunday Feb 27. CoCities will be a couple days of intense ideas around the future of cities, including a full day of free activities, exhibitions and workshops …

27.02.2011
14-18:00
Open Design City / betahaus
Prinzessinnenstraße 19-20

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We’re very excited to be part of Street Lab Meets Berlin in March. We’re planning a night of urban projections on Friday March 11 … featuring blitzTag. Check back soon for more details. Should be a fun time for all.

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Our Response: Live Remote Lasercutting

SVG2BVG at Transmediale

After having our DIY laser cutter exiled from the Haus der Kulturen der Welt to a secret location in Kreuzberg, we completed some live remote laser cutting during the second half of the festival … from a secret Kreuzberg location. We’ll be making stencils later in the month at the Cognitive Cities Conference, and other TBA events. Stay tuned.

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no laser, no cry

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EDIT: we have another CNC machine working, tested this morning. We will be releasing daily cutting times later this afternoon. For those of you that have already made tags/drawings, please come by our station sometime today.

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We all know that graffiti is the enemy of the powers that be. Add power tools and lasers to that mix, and you are probably not going to be allowed to exhibit – legally – in public.

GRL Germany had their SVG2BVG installation – well, at least the laser cutter portion of it – shut down by Transmediale/Haus der Kultur der Welt today, on the first day of the festival. Apparently we were going to harm ourselves. GRLG is now officially the bad boys + girls of #TM11.

Because we re-purposed our laser from a consumer level projector (Casio XJ-A140 for those keeping score at home), the specifications and safety guidelines of that laser could not be confirmed or accepted. We’re DIY, and don’t care about that kind of thing. I guess German bureaucrats do.

But not to worry, we will be moving the cutter tomorrow, and doing a remote stencil service, with live camera feed. Stay tuned…

~ Agent Scott

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GRLG @Transmediale

In case you haven’t heard, we will be presenting our SVG2BVG (yes, Evan + James, that’s Light Criticism 2.0 to you!) project at Transmediale, as part of Open Design City’s ‘Make Your Own Market’ event in ‘The Open Zone‘…

SVG2BVG teaser from Jesse Scott on Vimeo.

We will be at the CIA archives (i.e. House of World Cultures) allday, everyday! Come check us out.

SVG2BVG uses a custom software application to detect graffiti tags, and writes the ensuing shape directly to GCode file, allowing it to be sent to a laser cutter… then cuts it into a stencil, sized exactly for the screens on the Berlin U-Bahn.

SVG2BVG teaser from Jesse Scott on Vimeo.

Partners on this project: GRL Germany (Agents Scott + Rosner, Seemiramis, Olivio Sarikas, and Achim Kern), with Christophe Vaillant, Tristan August and with assistance from Onformative.

PS – we will also be showing a sneak-peek of blitzTag, our new Laser tracking software…

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SVG2BVG screen tests

Screen test for upcoming GRL Germany project “SVG2BVG”, to be presented at Transmediale 11 and Cognitive Cities Conference (Feb ’11).

SVG2VBG screen test #2 from Jesse Scott on Vimeo.

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SVG2BVG screen test #1 from Jesse Scott on Vimeo.

Custom Processing application detects drawing/writing, and writes the ensuing shape directly to GCode file, allowing it to be sent to a laser cutter… then cuts it into a stencil, sized exactly for the screens on the Berlin U-Bahn.

Still playing with different inks, rigging, camera, and lighting settings, so excuse the noise…

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