ESSEN.- Hacking the City is an innovative project reacting to changing structures in the public, mobility and communication in the city. How will public life, democratic culture and modern resistance be articulated in art? Which forms will be used, which can be revived, which models can artists and activists follow? How can a city’s resources be reacquired for active citizens and for individual use? Artistic, communicative and creative means are used to develop a critique of a consumer culture which defines the city, of the rule of advertising, democratic indifference and an increasing privatization of public space. Among the types of actions are strategies of “Adbusting” as well as “Faking” (or plagerism), adding in and taking away (misappropriation), irritation and disruption, forms of Hacktivism, Flash Mob actions, re-enactments, performances, sculpture in public space, concealed investigations, hidden actions, events directed via internet or mobile p