Urban Hacking: Cultural Jamming Strategies in the Risky Spaces of Modernity

Published by transcript Verlag 2010

Urban Hacking

Cultural Jamming Strategies in the Risky Spaces of Modernity

Edited by: Günther Friesinger , Johannes Grenzfurthner and Thomas Ballhausen

In the series Urban Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/transcript.9783839415368

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About this book

Urban spaces became battlefields, signifiers have been invaded, new structures have been established: Netculture replaced counterculture in most parts and also focused on the everchanging environments of the modern city. Important questions have been brought up to date and reasked, taking current positions and discourses into account. The major question still remains, namely how to create culturally based resistance under the influence of capitalistic pressure and conservative politics. This collection of essays and contributions attempts to address this question and its implications for different scientific and artistic fields.

Author / Editor information

Günther Friesinger is philosopher, artist, curator and producer. He is founder and head of the paraflows festival, chairman of the QDK - quarter for digital culture, general manager of monochrom, producer of the Arse Elektronika festival, the Roboexotica Festival and the KOMM.ST Festival. Friesinger teaches cultural management, production, social media, scenography & exhibition design at several universities in Austria, Germany and Switzerland.
Johannes Grenzfurthner is an artist, writer, curator, and director. He is the founder of monochrom. He teaches art theory and aesthetical practice at the University of Applied Sciences in Graz, Austria.
Thomas Ballhausen studied Comparative Literature and German at the University of Vienna. He is a lecturer at the University of Vienna and head of the Studies-Department of the Austrian Film Archive.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
INTRODUCTION
Welcome to the Battlefield. Please Make Yourself Comfortable Günther Friesinger, Johannes Grenzfurthner and Thomas Ballhausen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
1. HACKING THE CITY
Urban Hacking as a Practical and Theoretical Critique of Public Spaces Frank Apunkt Schneider and Günther Friesinger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Urban Hacking as a Strategy for Urban (Re-)Planning/Designing Melanie Gadringer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
Spandrel Evolution. Emergent Spaces of Resistance in the 21st Century Bonni Rambatan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
Playing with the Built City Eleanor Saitta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
Please love Banksy. A retrospective on the options of an art of disruption in public space in Vienna. Thomas Edlinger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
2. COMMUNICATION AND CREATIVITY
Guerilla.com Johannes Grenzfurthner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Guerrilla Gardening. Political protest, or mainstream-compatible, watered-down, wannabe subculture? Julia Jahnke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Lenin as major urban hacker in Lviv. From monument to market. Bohdan Shumylovych Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
Verbal Graffiti. Textures of unofficial messages in public space today Thomas Northoff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
Urban Hacking. An artist strategy Annett Zinsmeister Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
The most dangerous thing on the air. Someone broadcasts something Thomas Thurner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Improv Everywhere. An interview with Charlie Todd. Johannes Grenzfurthner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
3. CODES AND CONSEQUENCES
P2PFOUND CITIES. Project Proposal for the Reconstruction and the Preservation of Abruzzo Agatino Rizzo, Eric Hunting and Michel Bauwens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
cODE wRITING. On (Artificial) Writing Kerstin Ohler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Urban Trash Zone. Notes on the collapsing city in Warren Ellis’ and Ben Templesmiths Fell: Feral City Verena-Cathrin Bauer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
CONTROL Thomas Ballhausen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
List of contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Edition: 1. Aufl.
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 230
Keywords: Hacking; Urban; Cultural Jamming; Urbanity; Arts; Culture; Social Movements; Urban Studies; Political Art; Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: March 27, 2014
ISBN: 9783839415368