The times in my life I've felt the most alive is when I'm having a connection with people. We need to hack cities in a way to bring back that community culture.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
By 2007, we were finally living in a culture where people get what networks are and what technology can do to connect people.
I used to be such a militant city-ist, but more and more I've seen forests and nature and oceans, and I don't know any more if this is the awesomest way to live.
It's not enough to have a hacker culture anymore. You have to have a design culture, too.
One of the most important parts of my life has been community.
We now see hacking taking place by foreign governments and by private individuals all around the world.
As someone who has moved around a fair amount, I wondered what it would be like to stay rooted to one place, one community.
Cities have become places where we are controlled, by CCTV and other means, in the same way as machines are controlled. My works provide an imaginative space in which this can be challenged. It's like opening a window in a closed room.
I don't think the Internet has replaced cities in any significant way, nor really could it. Cities are dynamic - and deeply seductive for the people who flock there - because they broker all sorts of fantastic and useful connections, cultural and economic and social.
I love those connections that make this big old world feel like a little village.
That's the beauty of the Internet is that we're no longer tied to our communities by physical connections.