Since their appearanceon the streets as alternative communication tools in 1980s, graffiti have led to controversies over conceptualization vandalism of public property. Despite this negative understanding, however, are through which minorities and marginalized groups able represent themselves express voices spheres. Thus, turning into protest communication. Today, possibilities that new media ...

The possibility of contemporary mural paintings to be “tagged” by vandals, with spray and/or markers, represents a serious problem for the conservation urban art. present study aims define applicability protective coating on murals’ surface preserve them against vandalism. research has been focused anti-graffiti products currently used in field cultural heritage conservation. These represent an...

A coating system integrating three distinct chemistries was developed to protect materials used in monuments and construction. Initial curing is achieved using a UV-initiated thiol-ene reaction form non-impressionable/non-sticky surface. Second, amine/epoxy reactions firm surface adhesion give mechanical strength through consolidation. Third, alkoxysilane sol-gel integrates the siloxane network...

Can a single, universal speech interface look-and-feel be used to effectively control a wide variety of appliances? Can such an interface be automatically derived from a functional appliance specification? We built the Speech Graffiti Personal Universal Controller (SG-PUC), a universal interface and framework for human-appliance speech interaction, as a proof-of-concept. Its specification langu...

Managing storage in the face of relentless growth in the number and variety of files on storage systems creates demand for rich file system metadata as is made evident by the recent emergence of rich metadata support in many applications as well as file systems. Yet, little support exists for sharing metadata across file systems even though it is not uncommon for users to manage multiple file s...

The purpose of the work is to comprehend graffiti commercialisation process in European countries and USA, determine peculiarities interaction between artists, advertising industry private companies. methodology research stipulates use axiologic, semiotic, comparative analysis, hermeneutic interpretation basics interdisciplinary, namely cultorologic artistic, approaches. stated methodological s...

Since the first appearance of modern man one trait of human behaviour appears to be an inherent desire to leave our mark on a particular object or space and controversial ‘SprayCan’ graffiti that appeared in the 1970s is but a modern extension of this phenomenon. The Mobspray project started out looking at the possibilities for allowing environmentally friendly location based virtual graffiti t...