Abstract
This paper focuses on the city of Dublin, a high tech Western city which hosts the European
headquarters of Google, Facebook and Twitter yet is at the epicenter of the unprecedented Irish
financial collapse. As Ireland persists under a IMF/EU bailout program the obfuscated causes,
extent and repercussions of the collapse have been uncovered and critiqued by a series of
interconnected activist, artistic and academic media led interventions and visualizations. It is argued
that these interventions have served to deflect the official narrative, and shaped public discourse by
offering an alternative path to understanding the true nature of the crisis. This paper analyzes these
trans disciplinary models of operating and determines that they represent novel formations for
dissemination of counter-narratives which have wider applicability.
headquarters of Google, Facebook and Twitter yet is at the epicenter of the unprecedented Irish
financial collapse. As Ireland persists under a IMF/EU bailout program the obfuscated causes,
extent and repercussions of the collapse have been uncovered and critiqued by a series of
interconnected activist, artistic and academic media led interventions and visualizations. It is argued
that these interventions have served to deflect the official narrative, and shaped public discourse by
offering an alternative path to understanding the true nature of the crisis. This paper analyzes these
trans disciplinary models of operating and determines that they represent novel formations for
dissemination of counter-narratives which have wider applicability.
| Original language | Undefined/Unknown |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Proceedings of Mediacities International Conference |
| Editors | Jordan Geiger, Omar Khan, Mark Shepard |
| Place of Publication | Buffalo, New York |
| Publisher | The State University of New York , Buffalo. |
| Pages | 22-30 |
| Publication status | Published - 2013 |
Keywords
- urban theory
- art practice
- financial crisis
