Space Invader Artist
Invaders or Space Invaders, is an urban artist French, born in 1969 Approach Since 1998 , Invader mosaics sown in cities around the world incognito, as the French artist does not wish to expose. The mosaics of this artist depicting characters from a famous video game published by Taito in 1978, Space Invaders , which in 1980 became one of the first games to great success on the console Atari 2600. Because of the basic technology of the time, they are very pixelated and therefore reproducible mosaic: each pixel is thus assigned to a tile. Invader extended, with the "rubikcube" this sampling approach by reproducing colored patterns with six colors only available on a Rubick's cube. The work is then presented as an ordered collection of ten cubes next to form a "table" of variable width and height but of constant thickness of the toy created by Ern Rubik . Easily alterable material, the mosaic is very resistant to the ravages of time. These Space Invaders are cemented on the walls of the city in all sorts of places. All are indexed, photographed and located on maps by the author. Some of them, the most complete, were produced in several thousand copies with the help of local sponsors, and distributed freely in the cities affected. Today some are available for sale this time, the official website . The artist's approach is manifold: the contamination of the visual space and public meeting between the pixel and the mosaic, and transposition of a video game into reality . The artist said not to be derived from the movement graffiti since it was discovered only after he started his approach. Invader sees its approach as close to the hacker , in that it illegally spreading a virus in the heart of the system via a huge network of space invaders. The invasion took place in several stages with a few years apart: the first Space Invader was made in the mid-1990s in an alley in Paris . In the words of the setter, it was a "scout", a "sentinel" because he stayed only a few years. Only in 1998 qu'Invader has "operated the program," he actually started the "invasion", the "proliferation" . Templates are prefabricated and travels with the artist. When it arrives in a city he first obtains a map to plan its invasion. Therefore, it takes at least a week for the quadrille to bottom, in utter secrecy. This is also why qu'Invader prefers to remain anonymous. Each Space Invader is then indexed in a database: date, location, number of points awarded, two photographs (one close-up view and in its environment). The artist also considers these photos as well as works that document. Invader judge whether the invasion satisfactory, then a second plan is drawn and then printed with a local partner . Particular care is provided for each of them summarizes the whole process. Each plan has its own aesthetic, its own style, and tells its own story. The most unusual place ever invested is from the perspective of the artist's letters "Hollywood" of the eponymous hill . The first was pasted on the letter "D" on 31 December 1999 "in order to put the bug of 2000" Enthusiasm With time and progress of the invasion, the phenomenon has gained a reputation, particularly thanks to the Internet. Invaders also had the opportunity to tailor his work to the gallery since Urban has exhibited in prestigious galleries and museums around the world. He creates tableaux-pixel "PacMan and Pong, much more complex than the mosaics laid in the streets. Since 2005 , he founded the movement "rubikcube" where he uses Rubik's Cubes to give volume to Space Invaders and other icons like this series of portraits of "Bad Men". He made the presentation at the Rubik Space, Galerie Patricia Dorfmann in Paris , and the Lazarides Gallery in London, famous in the world of urban art in 2007. Many websites are devoted to Space Invaders, particularly at sites of photo sharing , which have the advantage of the opportunity to geotag photos. In the manner of Invader, fans were manufactured and installed mosaics, including in cities where the artist is never gone. In a book published in 2010, he asked Invader evaluated between 2000 and 3000 mosaics. He says he has been a minimum of ten mosaics in 38 cities. More than fifty cities were affected. are presented in these lists the cities referenced by the artist, London to Los Angeles , to Tokyo , New York , Bangkok and Paris , the city where he has most plagued , . 
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