Urban eXperiment Explained

by Esfand Khoram

Urban eXperiment –or UX for short–, is an underground collective of artists based in Paris which is devoted to restoration of hidden corners of the city and activities in such places. This hacker-artist group created a buzz after restoring the Panthéon clock, but their activities are much broader.

The collective is divided into subgroups or teams: an all-female team (the Mouse House) specializing in infiltration, a team running an internal messaging system and coded radio network, a team providing a database, a team organizing underground shows, a team doing photography and a team (Untergunther) doing restoration.

For an exhaustive review of the UX and their activities, The Wired has gathered this great report.

The UX hosted an underground art show featuring replicas of paintings stolen in a 2010 heist.
Photo: UX