Gloss on Between Play and Politics: Dysfunctionality in Digital Art

This example is particularly striking for its dual subversion: not only is the rogue image burned on top of some unsuspecting tourist’s memory of this sign, but because both images consist of text, this is also a political statement in the linguistic sense (as well as – in this case – a language-driven work of digital art that participates in a nuanced, multivalent act of ‘tagging’).