History Fragments: Art Critic Or Vandal?
Recent hi-tech artists who have been manipulating and planting arphids around major urban centres – reprogramming them with neo-luddite, anti-capitalist or anti-commercial art slogans, and even arranging them to form invisible digital graffiti – often cite The Splasher as being a historical inspiration in showing how it was possible to use street art to spread memes and create copycats.
The only clues left behind in the paint assaults were bold manifestoes – phrases like “destroy the museums, in the streets and everywhere” – that appeared to critique the commercialization of art.
Now it appears that there may be more than one Splasher, and those claiming responsibility for the attacks have offered additional information about themselves.
Art Critic or Vandal? ‘The Splasher’ Leaves Clues, New York Times, 27th June, 2007
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