One question we keep coming back to throughout this seminar, is what circumstances encourage or inspire people to create graffiti? The readings from this session showed us that graffiti can be made as a way to pass the time, show proof of visit, or as a form of political protest. But to me, the reason depends entirely on circumstance, which is why graffiti struggles to be categorized and defined, which sometimes allows for it to be such a broad catch-all term.
Additionally, when the space changes, so does its viewership and context. We tend to think of graffiti as mainly occurring on a local level, but in the case of Cairo, when conflict graffiti is shared via the internet, there is a new “global street” that emerges. Instead of just a community unifying together against violence, the world is also sharing in their anger and fear. As the graffiti becomes such a dominant presence on the internet, the space that people are interacting and viewing the graffiti is changing. When the space changes to the internet, how do people interpret and experience this graffiti differently, if at all?