Infl3ctor / Digital Calligraffiti
2016-PresentInfl3ctor is a tool for live projecting calligraphy into the urban space. The act of drawing on paper is projected at the size of buildings, becoming Digital Calligraffiti. The Infl3ctor table is designed to be as simple and “transparent” as possible - what is drawn in black is projected in white, with the motion of the strokes coming from the human hand Everything that is projected is an amplification of human expression and gesture.
Multiple Infl3ctors can be connected together over the Internet, enabling real-time collaboration and message exchange between people in different cities The drawing from each city is shown overlaid in a different color - the connected cities become a shared canvas for human expression and connection.
The Infl3ctor is a collaboration with Palestinian Calligraffiti artist Hamza Abu Ayyash and was created for the Digital Calligraffiti project initiated by Public Art Lab and Don Stone. The Infl3ctor is inspired by the pioneering work of the Graffiti Research Lab (gr33ts!) and the form factor takes inspiration from Golan Levin and Zach Lieberman’s Manual Input Sessions.
The Digital Calligraffiti project has taken on a world-wide scale, with the worldwide collective performing in numerous cities over the years including Berlin, Beirut, Abu Dhabi, Ghent, Barcelona, Beijing, Toronto, Marseille, Dubai, Karachi, and many more.
Digital Calligraffiti Core Crew
Susa Pop, Don Stone, Michael Ang (Mang), Hamza Abu Ayyash
Calligraffiti Writers
ABS Crew, Ahmed Naguib, Attns, Dia Allam, Friendly, Kadir Amigo Memis, Miquel, Moe (Mhanna Letters), Ofentse, Pain, Paris Urteil, Sandesh, Sanki, Schriftzug, Theosone, Torge, Xuli, Yat
Infl3ctor Operators
Harshini Karunaratne, Sahar Homani, Zoey Vero
Events / Exhibitions
2024
Digital Calligraffiti Off Stage, re:publica, Berlin, Germany
Sikka Art and Design Festival, Dubai, UAE
Media Architecture Biennale, Toronto, Canada
A View from the Streets: Urban Culture from the UAE,Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Washington DC, United States
2022
Kunstnacht Kempten, Kempton, Germany
2021
Digital Calligraffiti Eid celebration, Louvre Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE
2020
Wollah! Van Eyck Was Here, Ghent, Belgium (News article in Het Laatste Nieuws, PDF)
Metropolink urban art festival, Heidelberg, Germany
2019
National Festival of Tolerance, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Microwave New Media Arts Festival, Hong Kong, China
Experiment Zukunft, Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock, Germany (News article in Ostsee Zeitung, PDF)
Urban Refractions, Urban Art Week, KIMGO, Berlin, Germany
2018
Goethe-Institut China, 798 Art Zone, Beijing, China (pdf)
Media Architecture Biennale (MAB18), China Central Academy of Fine Art (CAFA), Beijing, China
Media Architecture Biennale Awards - Nominated for Participatory Architecture & Urban Interaction, CAFA, Beijing, China
Interpret Durban, Durban City Hall, Durban, South Africa
Decolonizing Futures, ISEA 2018, Denis Hurley Center, Durban, South Africa
Lange Nacht der Ideen, Auswärtiges Amt, Umspannwerk Alexanderplatz, Berlin, Germany
Urban Media Art Campaign, Berlin U-Bahn (all subway cars!), Berlin, Germany
Urban Media Art Academy Durban, Durban, South Africa
Asia Pacific Week, Berlin, Germany
Urban Media Art Kitchen, Public Art Lab, Berlin, Germany
2017
60th Anniversary, Goethe-Institut Pakistan, Karachi, Pakistan (pdf)
The Big Good Future:10 Jahre Creative City Berlin!, Kulturprojekt, Berlin, Germany
Citilab 10e Anniversari, Citilab, Cornellà, Spain
White Wall Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
Digital Calligraffiti, TINCON, Berlin, Germany
Future DiverCities Berlin Lab, Collegium Hungaricum Berlin (CHB), Berlin, Germany
Digital Calligraffiti Artistic Campaign, Berlin Subway Station U-Friedrichstraße,Berlin, Germany
CTM / transmediale Vorspiel, Berlin, Germany
Digital Calligraffiti, Chroniques Festival, Marseille, France
2016
Digital Calligraffiti x Infl3ctor Session, Retune Festival, Berlin, Germany
Press
Future DiverCities, “Throwback to Digital Calligraffiti with Mang, Hamza and Drury”, FutureDiverCities Blog, 2017
DJ Pangburn, “Activists Are Projecting Digital “Calligraffiti” Onto Walls in Berlin”, Creators, 2017