Space Invaders around the World The 2017 Invasions

Revisited by RVLeb - January 2018

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My interest for Street Art began with Banksy’s performance in New York in October 2013. I then discovered that Space Invader had invaded Lausanne, Geneva, Bern and Basel in Switzerland. During that period I became aware of beautiful mirror mosaics randomly placed in Pully, near Lausanne. After this initial period, I began to make a virtual trip around the world, looking for Invader’s work online. This is the result of my quest. This document follows a first synthesis made in 2014 and a 2nd one in 2017: http://fr.slideshare.net/rvleb/space-invaders-around-the-world https://fr.slideshare.net/rvleb/invaders-around-the-world-as-of-january-2017

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World invasion by year and places

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1996 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

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Australia

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USA

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Paris

Paris invasion by year and arrondissements

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The 2017 invasions

And also 1 in Berlin, 4 on Cote d’Azur and 74 in Paris

MARRAKECH févr-17 4 120 4 MRAK_

RABAT mars-17 20 2 3 2 15 680 20 RBA_

TOULOUSE mars-17 1 1 1 30 2 11 TLS_

HONG KONG avr-17 1 30 6 HK_

FORCALQUIER avr.-17 4 100 4 FRQ_

MALAGA mai-17 29 1020 29 MLGA_

VERSAILLES juin-17 22 700 8 22 VRS_

VALMOREL août-17 3 80 3 VMRL_

HALMSTAD ? 2002 2 1 1 60 2 HALM_

HONG KONG sept-17 32 1240 7 132 HK_

Total 74 cities 3599 253 385 252 172 346 92270 3599

CITY DATE #. No image No locationNo Ref. Missing Not Loc. PTS WAVE # NEWS MAP REF

The previous slide gives the list of the 2017 Space Invader (SI) invasions. Here is the meaning of each column. CITY: SI has invaded 74 places so far, some such as Cote D’Azur include many towns… #: Number of invasions in city. Ref: The 2 to 4 letter acronym SI uses for the references of the work. PA_1234 is the 1234th invasion in Paris. Sometimes there is a zero such as #LA_047 . No Reference: Number of references in location for which I could not find any image. Ref. missing: The list of references missing for a city. When too many, the ones founded are in-between (). Images missing: Number of images missing in any location (different from previous as some images exist without a ref.) Not located: Place not located in city corresponding Google map. Points: SI give a value in points to each invasion, just like in the video game. This gives the points per city. Waves: SI may have invaded a city multiple times. Each invasion is called a wave. News: SI published newsletters. This gives the newsletter in which the city is mentioned. For example www.space-invaders.com/inl22.html#english Map: SI published maps with some cities. This gives the map number according to SI’s web site.