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I’ve been looking at graffiti again for The world is your canvas project I’m working on with Kevin Smith – the idea is we’ll  design support for graffiti tagging (see TAKI 183) in the digital space – but you can only tag (and see tags) when you’re in the physical area through your mobile phone. They beauty of this is we get to play with tagging styles (fills, pieces, rollers, wildstyle…) and tagging practices (owning a black book, capping…) We’ll also get to see how we can re-interpret shared spaces and throw in new media types as well. Should be fun!

Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop from Keiichi Matsuda on Vimeo.

A view of the future living in a consumer-based augmented reality. It’s all a bit Gibsonesque – but a thoughtful video nonetheless. I was reading Mark Weiser’s original ubiquitous computing paper last week – I do wonder just how technology deterministic it has turned out to be – it set a research agenda for 20 years. The real question is does evocative visions of the future free the imagination or place limits on it?