THE GRAFFITI MASTERPIECE DRAWN BY DRONES
THE GRAFFITI MASTERPIECE DRAWN BY DRONES
Friday nights are actually the best time to watch some good old-fashioned drone-powered graffiti. The graffiti on the mural can make anyone happy from inside. The power of graffiti conveys messages to each of us in different ways. How about a graffiti painted by drones? Is it even possible? The hand that holds paint spray has a brain of art ideas where the imagination could be brought under reality. A team of four drones painted a giant mural over 12 hours. A design firm in Italy has put together a lovely little show that collected sketches from this art community. You have probably seen spray-painting drones before. Can you believe if I say the art of drones is far better than the crude vandalism of a fashion billboard or even Disney’s more structured wall drawings? It has actually put together something worth looking at.
The Italian Urban Flying Opera project was systemized and ideated by Carlo Ratti Association, the University of Turin and the Polytechnic University of Turin. They have collected around 1,200 small illustrations via an app. Out of which, They have selected 100 to assemble into a single mural. The mural is 46 feet wide and 39 feet that are 14 by 12 meters tall. Each coloured layer was laid separately which represents a different aspect of the community. The line drawings were loaded into a central control computer. A set of four drones equipped with paint cans. The painting instructions were simply relayed to it. The drones have worked over a 12-hour period to put the whole thing together. The painting was applied to the wall of a disused automobile manufacturing plant in the city of Turin’s Aurelio Peccei park. (1)
The drones were provided by Tsuru Robotics. They were also monitoring keenly with multiple position monitoring systems. They were cautious that the drones should not accidentally bump into one another. Drones were operating as part of a whole. It was an important thing because there wouldn’t be a second chance if you start to spray a white wall. The project was funded by cultural development foundation Compagnia di San Paolo. It was produced by tech research centre Fondazione LINKS in collaboration with Tsuru Robotics. (2)
A couple of years ago, architecture and design firm Carlo Ratti Association (CRA) unveiled Paint By Drone, a system that utilizes quadcopters to spray-paint artistic graffiti onto outdoor walls. Similarly The multimedia artist Katsu took responsibility for defacing the six-story Calvin Klein ad. Katsu also told Wired Magazine that the drone did “surprisingly well” for the act of vandalism. Katsu made news in Los Angeles in 2011 when he tagged the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Geffen building. Well, the tech has now been used to create a crowdsourced work of art, applied to a wall by multiple drones simultaneously. (3)
The city is an open canvas, where people can inscribe their stories in many ways. Such processes have always been happening; however, UFO tried to accelerate them, using drone technology to allow for a new use of painting as a means of expression. It is still nowhere near the level of fidelity you see in serious graffiti and street art, but it is clear that drone-based spray painting has become a viable method rather than a lark. Perhaps even future drone-based vandalism will be of higher quality! (4)
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