Urban Hacking

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.

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.