Urban Hacking: Redefining Public Space Through Art
Discover how artists creatively transform urban landscapes, challenging norms and sparking dialogue through innovative interventions and installations. Explore diverse projects and their impact.
Urban hacking, in the context of art, isn’t about malicious code. Instead, it’s about creative interventions in public spaces. This archive explores projects that use guerrilla tactics, repurposing and reimagining urban environments. From temporary installations to permanent murals, artists are pushing boundaries and sparking conversations about the city’s potential. Dive into projects that transform forgotten corners, challenge authority, and beautify neglected areas. We examine the legal, ethical, and aesthetic considerations of these actions, showcasing the power of art as a tool for social change and urban revitalization.
The Art of Hacking
Somehow corresponding to the war on Mexico declaration by loosely linked hacking group Anonymous I have some interesting news for everyone being interested in hacking…
Due to the amazing success, the Netherlands Media Art Institute extended its The Art of Hacking exhibition, which focuses on the artistic side of hacking, until November 26th, showing works by Heath Bunting, The Yes Men, Übermorgen.com and others.
As it is written in the press-release, the artists in this exhibition highlight the imperfections of our surroundings and daily lives. The projects subvert, improve on or circumnavigate official systems and practices and offer alternatives. Superficially, hacking is often associated with spreading online viruses and other digital attacks. Officially these criminal activities are not really known as hacking, but as cracking. The real practice of hacking is done based on far more positive and artistic motives. It’s a state of mind and there are elaborate ethical codes within the hacker community.
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King Robbo, Yarn Lettering, Urban Hacking & a Riot Sign
It’s urban art link-tip Wednesday again, a for that reason I have some interesting street art and graffiti news for you to check out, including the upcoming fund-raiser event for King Robbo, great yarn lettering from Toronto, urban Bratwurst hacking from Germany and a new traffic sign for London…
It’s already slightly older, but I just found that crazy yarn lettering by Sean Martindale in my feed reader..
Real Scenes is a series of short films which explores the musical, cultural and creative climate within electronic music’s key destinations like Bristol, Detroit or next Berlin.
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Light Painting WiFi
Urban Light Art | Yeah I know, the results when art meets technology are often strange, but sometimes also groundbreaking and interesting. Timo Arnall, Jørn Knutsen and Einar Sneve Martinussen recently showed that the Graffiti Research Lab is not the only agency which combines urban arts with technology by developing a four meters tall light art tool which makes WiFi visible!
This project explores the invisible terrain of WiFi networks in urban spaces by light painting signal strength in long-exposure photographs. A four-meters long measuring rod with 80 points of light reveals cross-sections through WiFi networks using a photographic technique called light-painting. (About the project)
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Open Web Award: Hackers, meet Graffiti Writers
Graffiti Hacking | Although for some of you hacking is just a seven-letters word starting with h, for me the top news of today is about Evan Roth and his graffiti analysis project. Roth, who is one of the heads behind the Graffiti Research Lab (GRL), earned a lot of fame and credit for his computer-based researches on graffiti in the last months. Now his work gets another publicity push, when Mozilla Drumbeat chooses the “Graffiti Markup Language” for this year’s “Open Web Award” finalists!
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