for this particularly post, I was considering the idea of crossing the digital boundary, entering the matrix if you like… This spray painted image bears no real reference to our mediated word, until I decided to put it into cyberspace.

Through this blog, it has entered a pathway: the tagging, the naming, it is almost like a digital birth.

There must be trillions of these data bits dancing around, digital memories.

Last year for instance I did a graffiti project as part of an urban #udrift (see Twitter). At lunchtime I wandered around Edinburgh city centre and took loads of photos. Recently I revisited these places and some graffiti has now disppeared, washed away…

Now some of these images I put on google maps. I will try and do a separate post for this as it is slightly easier I think to put the references in and further expand!

I’m trying to look within physical context for digital phenomena, that way it should be possible to uncover digital cultures and true digital artifacts that define that culture. For instance the move away from economic production to spectacle…