Grafedia

‘Words written anywhere, then linked to images, video or sound files online’

The emergence of Grafedia is taking old skool graff into the new age of digital media – providing a platform to express messages in a coded, almost secretive fashion.  There’s always more to what you see on those walls.

Grafedia is simply hyperlinked text written by hand onto any physical surface.  Be it a wall, pavement, napkin, back of a bus or on a body part. The hyperlinked text is then linked to a media file online.

"You can make street art with grafedia, or just leave behind simple calling cards for others wherever you go. You can have running dialogues between authors, or create interactive narratives or poetry in public spaces. Grafedia is a boundless, interactive publishing platform, base, cheap, and easy to use. It is an open system – the places and ways to use it are limitless. With grafedia, every surface becomes potentially a web page, and the entire physical world can be joined with the Internet."

Grafedia is created in 3 simple steps.  Think of your text or message.  Then send a media file from your cell phone to that chosen word plus’@grafedia.net’  You then write your word, message or whatever you’ve chosen on your desired surface – in blue and underlined. 

This will then be linked to the media file you uploaded to Grafedia.  Upon finding your grafedia – viewers are then able to follow your message and view your attached media file by either using a wireless device or net connection.

PSFK wonders whether this means we’ll start to see something else alongside those pieces of graff that adorn the streets – maybe a Grafedia tag linking to the artist’s own webpage?

Grafedia