Graffiti Research Lab

{{short description|American artist group}}

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| name = Graffiti Research Lab

| image = Hell's Kitchen - Flickr - urban data.jpg

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| caption = Laser graffiti on a building in Hell's Kitchen, New York, 2007

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| birth_place = Brooklyn, New York, United States

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| nationality = American

| field = Video, performance, new media art, street art, graffiti

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| works = Laser tag, LED throwies

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Graffiti Research Lab is an art project founded by Evan Roth and James Powderly{{Cite news|last=Yaffa|first=Joshua|date=August 12, 2007|title=The Writing's on the Wall. (The Writing's Off the Wall.)|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/12/nyregion/thecity/12graf.html|access-date=March 26, 2021|issn=0362-4331}} and run from Eyebeam OpenLab, a non-profit technology and art center where the two are fellows.{{Cite news|last=Dayal|first=Geeta|date=June 25, 2006|title=High-Tech Graffiti: Spray Paint Is So 20th Century|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/25/arts/design/25daya.html|access-date=March 26, 2021|issn=0362-4331}} The two experiment with LEDs, magnets, and conductive paint to augment street art and post instructions on their website.{{Cite magazine|title=Graffiti Goes LED|magazine=Wired|url=https://www.wired.com/2006/09/graffiti-goes-led/|access-date=March 26, 2021|issn=1059-1028}} They pioneered "no mess" graffiti using LEDs.{{Cite magazine |author-link1=Ta-Nehisi Coates |last1=Coates |first1=Ta-Nehisi |author-link2=Carolina Miranda (writer) |last2=Miranda |first2=Carolina A. |date=September 4, 2006 |url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1376241-2,00.html |title=Sound & Light: Food for the Eyes and Ears |magazine=Time |page=2}}