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We almost started to think that it was fake news. But now Italian architect and design studio Carlo Ratti Associati have finally set a date for the first live appearance of the Paint by Drone project that was presented last year. 

Now under the name UFO - Urban Flying Opera the project will be presented live in Torino, Italy May 4-6 this year. You can, though, participate in the project from today already. The final artwork will be a giant collaborative drawing made by participants online up until the event. Drones will then be finishing the work, by painting the drawing live.

Read more about the project and how to participate.

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KATSU made it to the next level and started writing with his graffiti drone.

The technique is new. The drone itself is leaning against the wall for some sort of stability, like  Constantin CLAUZEL’s grapher drone and other projects I've heard about. But the paint mechanism is working independently of the drone's movements, making it possible to create actual written letters quite freely. Most likely each letter have been programmed, meaning that it would be possible to make any letters and words with this. And the message is clear.

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Street and digital media artist KATSU just opened a new Instagram account for Katsuru, the previously mentioned fully automated AI enhanced drone system. Welcome! 

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The action role-playing video game The Surge 2 that was just release has a pretty awesome hidden feature, a graffiti drone to place message tags for other players. It's, as far as I know, the first appearance of a graffiti drone in a video game. Cool!

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Working for five years under the radar to create a viable graffiti drone product, Roi Neustadt from Tel Aviv have now decided to reveal test videos and patent documents for his project.  Neustadt's approach differs from other projects by using a steady frame against the wall, and the letting the rotor presure of the drone apply both upwards and inwards towards the wall. The early footager shows an extraordinary precision.

Find more videos at Roi Neustadts YouTube channel.

And check out the patent documents revealing a deep layer of details: 1, 2.

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An exhibition of KATSU’s latest drone paintings will open at the Diane Rosenstein Gallery in Los Angeles this Saturday.  

“KATSU’s drone paintings are the 21st Century’s Action Paintings, residing at an intersection of gesture and loss of control. His paintings are created in a symbiotic gestural application of atomized enamel paint sprayed by a remotely controlled customized quadrocopter drone onto an acrylic coated canvas. The drone is a semi-autonomous collaborator. Drones are voyeurs and recorders, used to exploit access and proximity as image-gathering devices. In KATSU’s practice, the drone’s purpose is subverted; it is an image creator.” it says in the description from the gallery.   The Drone exhibition runs November 3 - December 15, 2018.

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It's been a pretty amazing ride to follow the development of graffiti drones from the first baby steps to a now highly developed technology.

KATSU, one of the first people to ever do drone graffiti have now achieved a pretty amazing level of precision. Enough to follow a long time fantasy of "sending my drones out my bedroom window, having them render my tags all over the city and then flying back home to me, like, in my bed." as he told Vice in a 2014 interview.

Keep on dreaming, KATSU!

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Wow! We can now finally say that the world have seen it's first drone graffiti master piece. Moscow based street artist Misha Most, programmers from Interactive Lab and engineers from Tsuru Robotics created the piece in September for the 'Evolution 2.1' exhibition at Moscow Contemporary Art Center Winzavod. Well done!

More background on the project and images here: http://tsuru.su/en/project/graffiti-drone/

And a full view of the final piece: