Move Fast and Break the City: critical art practices in the data city

Conor McGarrigle

Move Fast and Break the City: critical art practices in the data city

Conor McGarrigle

School of Art and Design

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Abstract

The Data City is a pragmatic theorisation of the urban condition in contemporary smart cities, where almost every action is recorded as, and mediated through, data, to consider the city as a contingent assemblage of human and non-human systems that are subject to citizen shaping. It offers a critical lens to interrogate the action of data-assemblages in the city through revealing their mechanisms, ideologies, biases, assumptions, and operationalisation whilst opening a path toward developing critical and sustainable alternatives to the practices of existing globalised digital platforms that can benefit local communities and return the value of data to the communities that produce it.

Original language	English (Ireland)
Publication status	Published - 15 Mar 2018
Event	A Contributive Economy in a Society of Care: A colloquium organised by the Plaine Commune, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Paris-Nord, Institut de Recherche et d'Innovation and Ars Industrialis - Maison des Science de L'Homme Paris-Nord, Paris, France Duration: 13 Mar 2018 → 15 Mar 2018

Seminar

Seminar	A Contributive Economy in a Society of Care
Country/Territory	France
City	Paris
Period	13/03/18 → 15/03/18

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

Keywords

smart cities
big data
surveillance capitalism
artistic practice

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Move Fast and Break the City: critical art practices in the data city

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UN SDGs

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