urban hacking 09.17.09

city form: history/culture

 
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The urban environment has long been a canvas/theater for artistic expression and critique, ranging from graffiti to skateboarding to Gordon Matta Clark (to name just a few methods of urban intervention). With youth culture’s constant urge for new forms of self-expression and the tools and infrastructure of the digital age, these interventions mutate to reflect a new dialogue between public space and hyperspace. Hacking is a form of resistance to the digital age that works within the very medium it seeks to undermine. In a similar way acts of urban hacking—guerrilla structure in public space, LED tags & mobile projection units, the choreography of Parkour—appropriate the urban realm to explore and question public space and personal freedom.graffiti_1.htmlhttp://www.artnet.com/Magazine/features/smyth/smyth6-4-4.asphttp://www.parkour.com/shapeimage_4_link_0shapeimage_4_link_1shapeimage_4_link_2