GraphicJam is an art forum, a collision of sensibilities and wills. People can collaborate, compete, destroy, digress, and play on this relatively accessible surface. As with graffiti, no mark is final. Each layer gives way to the next, creating an ongoing collaborative work that evolves and disappears as visitors contribute their scribbling energy to it. This project borrows an aesthetic from jazz - live 'jam' sessions where musicians play together, creating music through improvisation.
Images grow from the simultaneous labors of trios, quartets, and so forth.
Solos are gradually or suddenly effaced by the emergence of new themes. Last, GrafficJam is a live art form. The recording that allows one to see the recent history retrace its steps when one arrives is constantly, like the sound of live music, fading from the hum of the machine into the quietude of human memory. Like a note in live music, any mark that is made is immediately part of the design. It must be responded to, ignored, incorporated, or overwritten.