The project "Hacking the City" took place on the occasion of the "European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010." Twenty museums collaborated in a multifaceted common series of exhibitions called "Mapping the Region." Museum Folkwang contributed with an experimental project which went far away from traditional museum activities. More than thirteen projects in public space, a "Base-Station" in the museum and a homepage (www.hackingthecity.org) were realized.

Subsequently the book is published now. Read about "Municipal surveillance as a subject of artistic fieldwork," "Reverse and flip sides," "Perfect Throws," "The Power of Gifts," "Random Encounters," "Viral Pizzas," "Toilet Publics," "Remotewords," "Guerilla-Gardening," "Eyebright-Ambulances," "Strategies of Visibilty and Invisibility" and "Heavy Precipitation."

"Cultural hacking" does not only mean voicing criticism, putting up resistance or even exposing an opponent's faults—it also signifies innovation.
The reader includes a richly illustrated documentation about all activities and text contributions by artists and theorists, like Boran Burchhardt, Brad Downey, Sabine Fabo, Matthew Fuller, Dagrun Hintze, Anke Hoffmann, Christin Lahr, !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Achim Mohné / Uta Kopp, Richard Reynolds, Felix Stalder, Annette Schemmel, Sabine Maria Schmidt, Jörg Steinmann, Michelle Teran, Annette Wehrmann and Georg Winter.

Hacking the City -
Interventions in urban and communicative spaces
Edited by Sabine Maria Schmidt
Museum Folkwang, Essen
Graphic Design by V2A.Net, Essen
Edition Folkwang / Steidl
English / German
288 pages, rich illustration
Prize: 25 Euro
ISBN 978-3-86930-187-7

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