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Would Wii graffiti app promote or reduce real-world graff?

I've been advocating on Grits for mainstreaming graffiti as much as possible, and this idea - a proposed-but-not-yet-marketed graffiti app for the Nintendo Wii - might take graffiti about as mainstream as it could get.The idea immediately made me think of the exhibition by the Liberty Science Center in New Jersey that drew criticism for a popular museum installation that let young kids do graffiti on an electronic, erasable tableau, a concept also being explored in a variety of environments by Graffiti Research Labs. But a Nintendo Wii application would take these ideas from the rarified realm of museums and researches and put them in the hands of potentially every teenager with a gaming system. Here's the account from Gamespot's System Update blog:At last month's Electronic Entertainment Expo, Microsoft showed off a painting program for its forthcoming motion-sensing add-on, Project Natal...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on July 07, 2009 (boomark / email).