[...]
Urban Hacking, as a book, tracks numerous strategies, including
Augmented Reality interventions, billboard alteration, graffiti,
tags, and greening, as a kind of "programmable literature", made
possible through open sourcing of code and the artistic re-use of
place. From this admixture, we have the foundations of an urbanism
made by and for "the people" which, at the same time as interrogating
the fabric of spaces overtaken, outsourced, managed and mined, hales
radical, digital cultures, and opens surfaces for dialogue with urban
environments from within a post-colonial critique. The book is an
attempt, I would argue, to identify strategies for the problem spaces
which might be creatively detourned, delimited, or re-designed. It
articulates the problem of politicized urban art as requiring a
much-needed re-invention of itself, on toothier terms.
But, the book is, also, self-consciously, historical. There is a
chapter on Lenin's vision for the center of Lviv, for instance, which
shows how he re-engineered the monuments and central squares of that city.
[...]
http://www.othercinema.com/otherzine/?issueid=26&article_id=145
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