Jamie Wilkinson, internet culture researcher & software engineer, is joining the speaker lineup for this year’s Open Video Conference. While working at Rocketboom, Jamie co-created the Know Your Meme video series & Internet meme database, selected as one of TIME Magazine’s Top 50 websites of 2009. He is also a founding member of the Free Art & Technology (FAT) Lab, an open-source research & development group. In 2007 & 2008 Wilkinson taught the “Internet Famous” class in Parsons graduate design & technology program, where students’ grades depended on how much Internet traffic they can generate. His work has been featured on NBC, TIME, NYTimes, CNN, CurrentTV, MAKE, ArtNews and more.

Jamie and his friends at FAT and Graffiti Research Labs are pushing the boundaries of pop-culture and open technology with projects like Laser TAG , LED Throwies, and Grafitti Markup Language (GML). GML (“The new digital standard for tomorrow’s vandals”) is a file format for archiving motion-captured graffiti tags. In other words, a specific piece of graffiti can be captured in real time, stored as a file, and played back as a video visualization or even reproduced physically (with the help of a robot arm holding a marker). GML is an open format, so graffiti writers are invited to capture and share their own tags, and computer programmers are invited to create new applications and visualizations of the resulting data. The project aims to bring together two seemingly disparate communities that share an interest hacking systems, whether found in code or in the city.

Recent GRL projects are listed here. Check out Open Video Conference, this October 1-2, for a look into some cool new video projects.