Editor's Note: When I first came across this project, it made me a bit uneasy. I do understand that the artist is presenting a contrast between an assumption in advanced industrialized countries that technology will revolutionize our lives, and the reality that many parts of the world lack the infrastructure to support those technologies, thus limiting the scope of such a "revolution." But, by grouping these countries together (Mali, Cambodia, and Vietnam) as a flat representative of the developing world, they become just that, a backdrop to make his point. Thoughts?
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rcharliem | Wed, Dec 17th, 2008 10:19 p.m.Do you think anybody in those communities care? What ethic system is the artist responsible to anyways?
Just more visual pollution in my eyes.
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on Jan 25th, 2012
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on Jan 25th, 2012



it is bigoted to use those countries as reduced caricatures, but i don't think we can make a moral call unless we had information on his actions towards specific communities from site to site.
is this guy a dick? or was emotionally involved with the people he depicts?
was the graffiti tagged by someone who actually lived there; a friend of the artist from each online community represented?