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

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. Table of Contents Welcome to the Battlefi eld. Please Make Yourself Comfortable 1. Hacking the City Urban Hacking as a Practical and Th eoretical Critique of Public Spaces Urban Hacking as a Strategy for Urban (Re-)Planning/Designing Spandrel Evolution. Emergent Spaces of Resistance in the 21st Century Playing with the Built City Please love Banksy. A retrospective on the options of an art of disruption in public space in Vienna 2. Communication and Creativity Guerilla.com Guerrilla Gardening. Political protest, or mainstream-compatible, watered-down, wannabe subculture? Lenin as Major Urban Hacker in Lviv. From monument to market Verbal Graffiti. Textures of unoffi cial messages in public space today Urban Hacking. An artist strategy The most dangerous thing on the air. Someone broadcasts something Improv Everywhere. An interview with Charlie Todd 3. Codes and Consequences P2PFOUND CITIES. Project Proposal for the Reconstruction and the Preservation of Abruzzo cODE wRITING. On (Artifi cial) Writing Urban Trash Zone. Notes on the collapsing city in Warren Ellis’ and Ben Templesmiths Fell: Feral City CONTROL List of contributors 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. Media,Hacking,Urban,Cultural Jamming,Urbanity,Arts,Culture,Social Movements,Urban Studies,Political Art,Cultural Studies Main description: 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 Biographical note: Günther Friesinger lives in Vienna and Graz as a philosopher, artist, writer, curator and producer. He is Head of the paraflows Festival, CEO of monochrom, co-organiser of the Arse Elektronika Festival and the Roboexotica Festival. 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