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Tile street art by Invader, seen in London, England. Invader is the pseudonym of a French urban artist, born in 1969, whose work is modeled on the crude pixellation of 1970s 8-bit video games. He took his name from the 1978 arcade game Space Invaders, and much of his work is composed of square ceramic tiles inspired by video game characters. Although he prefers to remain incognito, and guards his identity carefully, his distinctive creations can be seen in many highly-visible locations in more than 60 cities in 30 countries. He documents each intervention in a city as an "Invasion", and has published books and maps of the location of each of his street mosaics.
Mosaic tile street art by the artist Invader, seen across the street from the Vatican in Rome, Italy. From Wikipedia:
Invader is the pseudonym of a French urban artist, born in 1969, who pastes characters from and inspired by the 1978 arcade game Space Invaders, that are composed of small colored square tiles forming a Space Invader character mural mosaic. He does this in cities across the world, then documents this as an "Invasion", with books and maps of where to find each invader. The mosaics depict characters from Space Invaders and other video games from the early 1980s. The images in these games were made with fairly low-resolution graphics, and are therefore suitable for reproduction as mosaics, with tiles representing the pixels. The tiles are difficult to damage and weather-resistant.
Invader started this project in 1998 with the "invasion" of Paris – the city where he lives and the most invaded city to date – and then spread the invasion to 31 other cities in France. London, Brussels, Cologne, Geneva, Newcastle, Rome, Berlin, Lausanne, Fribourg, Barcelona, Bonn, Ljubljana, Vienna, Graz, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Bilbao, Manchester, Darlington, Istanbul, Monaco are among the 23 other European cities which have been invaded. Throughout the world, São Paulo, Los Angeles, New York City, Puerto Rico, Miami, San Diego, Toronto, Bangkok, Tokyo, Katmandu, Varanasi, Melbourne, Perth and even Mombasa are now invaded with his colourful characters in mosaic tiles. One of the more prominent places where the mosaics have been installed is on the Hollywood Sign. The first was placed on the letter D on December 31, 1999. During further trips to Los Angeles, Invader placed mosaics on the eight other letters of the sign.
The mosaics are half-built in advance. When Invader arrives in a city he obtains a map and spends at least a week installing them. They are catalogued, photographed and Invader uses a map indicating their locations within the city. Typically, mosaics are located ten to fifteen feet above the ground, and often on street corners in areas of high visibility. Later, the maps, called "invasion maps", are sold in his online shop. The locations for the mosaics are not random, but are chosen according to diverse criteria, which may be aesthetic, strategic or conceptual. Invader favours locations that are frequented by many people, but also likes some more hidden locations. In Montpellier, the locations of mosaics were chosen so that, when placed on a map, they form an image of a giant space invader character.
Invader has had solo exhibitions at art galleries in Paris, Osaka, Melbourne, Los Angeles, New York City, London and Rome. Space Invader has shown in many galleries, art centers and museums, from the 6th Lyon contemporary art biennale (2001), the MAMA Gallery in Rotterdam (2002), at the Paris based Magda Danysz Gallery (2003), at the Borusan Center for Culture and Arts in Istanbul, Subliminal Projects in Los Angeles (2004). In 2010, he was one of the featured artists in the Banksy film Exit Through the Gift Shop in which it is claimed that he is a cousin of Thierry Guetta (Mr. Brainwash). In 2011, he took part in the MoCA LA show at the Geffen Contemporary : "Art in the streets" curated by Jeffrey Deitch. He was the first artist arrested for taking part in the show.