At its core, digital media is light. Sent as packets across wire, through the air as waveforms, as lit pixels on a screen, on and off, out through an amplified lens, light impulses run free until trapped in our devices. Duplicated, remixed, saved as, cut and pasted, printed to paper, light becomes physical product, then remains free to continue its propagation.

Digital graffiti captures and reroutes light, projecting new purpose on old forms. Tools of the digital graffiti artist include animation, programming, video, paint, computers, photography, projectors, music, live freestyle mixing, and courage.

Modern citizens decorate the insides of their walls yet keep their exteriors a blank slate, free on the internal, limited in their external representations. By projecting imagery onto blank walls, the very structure of the city becomes the canvas; art enters the media that surrounds us.

Digital Graffiti is a continuing project, founded by San Francisco-based art group 47 in 2002, now in NYC. The video montage to the left includes the work of [sic], 47, Evan Roth, and vade.