Our Streets! “This Space Occupied”
A photograph taken from Occupy Wallstreet, 2012, for protesters’ tents who squatted in Zuccotti Park before they were forced out by the New York Police Department. Nevertheless and despite the attempt of the state government to enforce a media blackout that prevented protestors from reporting their eviction to others, the protest continued online and at a global scale.
The photograph has been edited by simple digital effect to decontextualize the dissemination of physical space of protest and reframe Occupy Wallstreet as an algorithmic glitch in a larger automated system of the capitalist market.
In NYC, public architecture proved to be physical and virtual simultaneously.
What is the biggest obstacle in our way to establishing an equally powerful digital public architecture that will allow a virtual protest to positively impact our lives – “A VIRTUAL PROTEST”?
