If you’re in San Diego for Comic-Con this month, be sure to watch the skies — or rather, the rooftops — for signs of an extraterrestrial invasion.
French street artist Invader has installed 21 ceramic tile recreations of the iconic Space Invaders alien all around San Diego.
The project is part of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego’s upcoming exhibition Viva la Revolucion: A Dialogue with the Urban Landscape. The show, including works from renowned street artists such as Banksy and Shepard Fairey, opens July 18th.
Art lovers who take part in “The Space Invader Walk,” a self-guided tour through downtown San Diego, will find all 21 pieces of art and discover that the path they walk sketches out an 11-block-wide shape of a Space Invader, with each city block representing a pixel in the giant alien.
Invader used a GPS and a map of the city grid to plan his city-sized sketch of the alien invader. The brief trailer, embedded above, does a good job of communicating he scale of the city-sized art project.
A representative of the MCASD told Wired.com that the exhibit would remain up and available for viewing until January 2, 2011.
Image courtesy Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
