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Graffitti Research Lab founder James Powderly detained by Chinese…

International Artist Detained in Beijing for Planning Pro-Tibet Free Speech Exhibit
Students for a Free Tibet Notified of Detention by Twitter Message

Internationally known artist, technologist and co-founder of the Graffiti Research Lab, James Powderly, was detained in Beijing early this morning while preparing to debut a new work and technology of protest, the L.A.S.E.R. Stencil. According to a “twitter” message received today by Students for a Free Tibet at approximately 5 pm Beijing Standard Time, Powderly had been detained by Chinese authorities at 3 am. His current whereabouts remain unknown.

The image below was shot in New York City in July, shortly before James departed for Asia.

Learn more about this…
http://freetibet2008.org/globalactions/jamespowderly
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/08/19/grls-james-powderly.html
http://graffitiresearchlab.com/?p=161

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Born 1974, Jacksonville, FL; Derek Lerner is a New York City-based artist with a BFA degree from the Atlanta College of Art. His work explores systems: the creation, control, and use of them. architectonic. power, media, information, misinformation, semantics, sociology, culture: counter-culture/over the counter culture, chaos, order, law, code, organized crime, databases, marketing, consumerism, transportation, etc.

Lerner has shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, IL, the Centre d’Exposition de Val-d’Or in Quebec, Canada, BAM: Brooklyn Academy of Music, 31GRAND gallery in NY, and Tomoya Saito Gallery in Ebisu, Tokyo, Japan.

He is a co-founder of GH avisualagency an artist collective working in design, direction and strategy. He co-authored the GH avisualagency monograph published by Booth-Clibborn Editions. Lerner is also a co-founder and director of Art Center, a virtual exhibition space showing the work of selective contemporary artists, based in the metaverse Second Life.

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