Binary Graffiti Club

Original signed artworks by Stanza.

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Working with young people Stanza creates unique images in urban locations to represent the hopes and aspirations of young people.

Youths dressed in black hoodies swarmed the historic city streets of Lincoln during Frequency Festival 2013, their backs emblazoned with bold white digits, the zeros and ones.   Their ominous presence was marked with a series of binary code graff-tags on official buildings throughout the city; messages of insurrection for a digital cult now active among us or analogue reminders of the digital soup of signals we wade through on a daily basis?  There's an engaging playfulness and an aesthetic pleasure to Stanza's work that pays rewards on deeper investigation.  His urban interventions remind us of the invisible occupation of the cyberspace around us and encourages us to ask whose hand manipulates these systems of control. Barry Hale MA, Festival Co-Director