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The Sustainable Sydney 2030 plan is a vision that foregrounds the physical aspects of the city. Whilst the Plan’s vision for Sydney’s CBD is focused on beautifiction and improvements for pedestrians, it does not adequately address the impact that new social, informatic and surveillance technologies will have on our personal and collective experiences in the public realm.
Our project attempts to speculate on the complexity of experience in Sydney 2030. The project begins with the assumption that technology will pervade our everyday life like never before. The majority of Sydney citizens will be constantly ‘connected’. Access to remote computing, everywhere and all the time, will be a given; as will customised advertising and experiences. An 'augmented reality' will be delivered via the ‘network’ and invisible devices that sit almost within the body. Sydney will be a hybrid space of the real and the virtual. Protocols will control information exchange and ‘code’ our relationships.[1]
Within this ‘protocological’ city, the 'glitch’ becomes a concept that faclitates an alternative. A break-down of the system from within, the ‘glitch’ offers the possibility to create a new space; political and social, that turns the unhuman efficiencies - the protocols - of the network into a space affected by the human; by failure, uselessness and play. The glitch reveals the disjunction between the real and the virtual. It offers the potential to exploit the network to provide room to move.
1. Galloway, A and Thacker, E, ‘The Exploit : A Theory of Networks’, Univeristy of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis:London, p.30
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