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James Powderly

In 2005, James became a Research and Development Fellow at the Eyebeam OpenLab where he began collaborating with Evan Roth.

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James Powderly (born 1976) is a technologist and artist who founded Graffiti Research Lab with Evan Roth.

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James lives in Seoul, South Korea, was a professor at Hongik University in the Visual Communication Design Department and is currently a designer at Samsung Electronics.

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In June 2008, before the 2008 Summer Olympics, Powderly was contacted by Students for a Free Tibet who wanted to use his laser stencil invention, which can laser project simple stencils up to 2km away, to project the words "Free Tibet" on a Beijing landmark, without acquiring any permission from the local authority.

Microwave International New Media Arts Festival

1,200 metres across Victoria Harbour (James Powderly and MC Yan tagging from Central ferry, with Evan Roth and the local crew controlling the set up in front of the Cultural Centre in Tsim Sha Tsui).

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