This is a novel concept. It's a set-up that allows you to use a Wii-enabled 'digital spray-can' to 'paint' on a screen. The technical implementation is awesome - down to the use of stencils. I have to say that the paint effect looks great. The demo shows it in more detail:
However - this isn't really what graffiti is all about.
Graffiti's an anti-establishment, subversive, pseudo-anonymous artform. It thrives on the danger and the stress of producing works of art quickly, under cover of darkness, without the chance to correct mistakes. It uses what must be some of the cheapest and most easily accessible materials - spray-paint and any available surface. People feel strongly about it, because it challenges society's norms of ownership, property, and the meaning of art.
This concept takes the idea of graffiti and guts it. It takes the danger, the illegality, and most importantly the accessibility - the low barriers to entry - of graffiti and replaces it with sterile, computer-generated pixels on a screen.
Impermanent, editable, unreal. Don't like it? Start again. Make a mistake? Ctrl-Z...It's a glorified Etch-A-Sketch. Fun, as a novelty.
Wii Spray is to graffiti, as Wii Sports is to boxing...
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