How To Decode Invader’s Street Art With An iPhone

With straight-forward socio-political imagery from folks like Banksy and Shepard Fairey, the messages of today’s crop of street artists are usually pretty easy to understand. But what are you supposed to think when you come across a life-sized monster from Space Invaders on the street? According to Invader, the artist who posts the pixelated ’80s arcade game character on walls around the world, there’s a method to his madness.

Within his mosaic tile art, Invader has started embedding secret binary code messages that can only be cracked with an iPhone app called iMatrix. After you take a picture of one of Invader’s pieces, the program decodes it and spits out messages like “This is an invasion” or “I Invade Varanas.” Watch the artist explain it for himself in the video below…

INVADER- Binary Code Street Art- Part 1 from Daniel Lahoda on Vimeo.

[JetSet Graffiti Via Segue-Mag]