As a reaction to an increasingly information saturated environment, approaching the critisism and reaction 'real-world' physical design with the same language and criteria that we use describe 'virtual' media could help provide insights into both. The urban information space is, like all other media, mostly controlled by capitalism (advertisng or websites) and government (highway signage and government websites).
As the public becomes the user of these spaces, graphiti and flyposting can be seen as no different from leaving a comment on a blog or guestbook or partaking in a wiki. Some forms of hacking equate to media activism, and represent a revolutionary spirit, or even the transformation of pseudo-public space away from a meer information-market, into something approaching art (whilst others are little more than incoherent srawlings).
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