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activism . art . media . net

PirateBox DIY - Networking Surroundings

The number of times we find ourselves in a public place looking for an open or accessible wireless network shows to what extent we have to negotiate our digital presence and relationship with the digital entities surrounding us. The resulting "net-scape" is definitively flat with mostly closed commercial and home-based networks. David Darts' "PirateBox" is a self-contained mobile communication ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:48 AM - Jan 16/2013
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activism . art . media . net . psychogeography . surveillance . visual

Street Ghosts - Virtualised Reality Made Real

Street Ghosts, Paolo Cirio, street art, net art, street_ghosts_paolo_cirio.jpg

The grid swallows us. Increasingly it defines and shapes our positions. Italian artist Paolo Cirio uses this uncomfortable fact as the basis for a new work. Street Ghosts reveals a sense of the awkwardness generated by the invasion of public streets by indiscreet media organisations. Google Street View, for ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:35 PM - Oct 15/2012
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activism . videogame

Unmanned, playing tolerance to reality

Unmanned, Molleindustria, unmanned_molleindustria.jpg

Molleindustria' s games have traditionally aimed to put the player in a rather uncomfortable or unusual position. Previous games have asked users to run McDonald's businesses, to hide church scandals in Italy, or to supervise child labour in Congo. The team of radical Italian game designers have launched their latest challenge: 'Unmanned' invites you to become a UAV pilot and follow the character throughout ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:41 AM - May 4/2012
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The Deleted City, social web archeology

Chiara Ciociola, Richard Vijgen, Deleted City, deleted_city.jpg

The project of Richard Vijgen Deleted City is an interactive data visualization of the myriad of data hosted on the free web hosting Geocities, that was very popular at the dawn of the commercial web. The city was the successful metaphor that characterized this site: the users could easily create their own Web pages and click on the "city" in which they preferred to live based on the type of content ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 08:35 PM - Jan 30/2012
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activism . art . science

Solar Sinter, solar way of thinking

Markus Kayser, sun sinter, Daphne Dragona, solar_sinter.jpg

Ongoing diminution of natural resources and the urgent need to adopt more sustainabile practices are undoubtedly among the most crucial matters for the world today. As awareness increases, more and more young creators are engaging with this topic, taking a critical and active stance by building prototypes and actual alternatives. Markus Kayser is such an example; a young industrial designer ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:50 PM - Jan 3/2012
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activism . art . book

R. Klanten, M. Hubner, Alain Bieber Art & Agenda, Political Art and Activism

ISBN 978-3899553420, 288 pages, 2011, English, Gestalten, art_agenda.jpg

ISBN: 978-3899553420, 288 pages, 2011, English, Gestalten
"Activism" in art has become a fashionable topic, especially after the beginning of the global financial crisis. Critiquing the system, formalizing regrets about the past and expressing fears about an uncertain future have become daily topics for major media. Artists are now also reflecting these feelings (maybe even more than during the sixties and seventies) with an abundance of creativity, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:22 PM - Dec 28/2011
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activism . book . literature

Jaishree K. Odin - Hypertext and the Female Imaginary

Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2010, Language: English, ISBN-13: 978-0816666690
Hypertext represents a cornerstone in experimental literature. From the first experiments until the late adopters, it has evolved from a technique to a literary strategy. Hypertext appears to have been the cultural base for the current fragmented, multi-device and multitasking way of dealing with information. This multi-dimensional discontinuity is the terrain allowinr writers to ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 08:00 AM - Apr 11/2011
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activism . copyright . hacking . hacktivism . net

deadSwap, clandestine offline filesharing

deadSwap, Dymitri Kleiner, Telekommunisten, dead_swap.jpg

deadSwap is a clandestine offline filesharing system that uses secret local anonymous SMS gateways to route a USB memory stick among participants. Using independently operated SMS gateways means that the system does not require Internet availability. This also implies, if certain precautions are taken, that the system can be very private and difficult to ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 07:59 AM - Jul 13/2009
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activism . art . copyright

Intellectual Property Donor, let ideas outlive the body

Intellectual Property Donor, ni9e, intellectual_property_donor.jpg

The term "intellectual property" (IP) denotes the specific legal rights which authors, inventors and other IP holders may hold and exercise, not the intellectual work itself. Under the intellectual property laws, the holder of one of these abstract "properties" has certain exclusive rights concerning the creative work, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:36 PM - Mar 17/2008
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activism . art . hacking . mobile

Inside / Out, wereable tecnologies social potential

Katherine Moriwaki, Inside / Outside, inside_outside.jpg

In the art world, authors like Stelarc and Krzysztof Wodiczko have produced worrisome images of technology and body integration ignoring the expressive and aesthetic potential of wearable technology. Actually, thanks to the interchange among fashion, technology and art, artist / designer hybrids are ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:00 AM - Jan 8/2008
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activism . art . dvd . sound . video

CM von Hausswolff + Thomas Nordanstad - Two Films

CM von Hausswolff + Thomas Nordanstad, Two Film, Hashima, Japan 2002, field recording, experimental, electronic music, drone, architecture, urban geography, documentary, audio-visual, landscape, site-specific, performance, filmmaker, video, Al Qasr, Aurelio Cianciotta, errantbodies_twofilms.jpg

DVD - Errant Bodies
These two projects by CM Von Hausswolff and Thomas Nordanstad, an electronic music maker specialized in field recordings and drone music and a creative filmmaker specialized in short films and video installations, follow the communication strategies used traditionally by Errant Bodies, a label ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:00 AM - Oct 29/2007
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Wizards of OS 4, Information Freedom Rules

It starts on September 13th in Berlin the fourth edition of Wizard of OS, the festival of free software and free knowledge (previous editions in 1999, 2001 and 2004). One of the key ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:54 PM - Sep 14/2006
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activism . code . copyright . hacking . hacktivism

Hackmeeting 2006: Building a different net

The Italian Hackmeeting is a very special kind of event. It's very different from the other European or American hacker meetings because it's compeltely self organized and decided through a public mailing list. The 8th edition will take place in ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:09 AM - Sep 1/2006
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activism . art . book . hacktivism . videogame

Ed Halter - From Sun Tzu to Xbox, War and Video Games

Thunder's Mouth Press, ISBN 1560256818
In the controversial debate about the videogame role in social acceptance of violence, the military power avid interest in the field is not anymore a secret. Furthermore the mediatic videogame-like aesthetic debuted during the Gulf War in early nineties has become the norm, and pushes in every new conflict the bloodless screen-based interface of a real human mass murdering. Ed Halter wrote this ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 02:02 AM - Jul 27/2006
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activism . art . hacking . hacktivism . media

The Influencers 2006, festival of media action and radical entertainment

The Influencers 2006, Centre de Cultura Contemporània of Barcelona CCCB, Digital is not Analog, IRWIN, Neue Slowenische Kunst, Vincenzo Sparagna, Oscar Brahim, Chicks On Speed, Vuk Cosic, Molleindustria, Paul D. Miller, dina_theinfluencers_2006.jpg

The third edition of the Influencers (after the 2004 and 2005 ones), will open on July 6th at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània of Barcelona (CCCB). Previously entitled ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:05 AM - Jun 20/2006
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activism . art . dvd . media

Mieke Gerritzen - Beautiful World

All Media Production / Bis Publishers ISBN 9063691289
In the realm of images, Mieke Gerritzen is still composing her graphic appealing texts. After many different books and catalogues, this is the first attempt to animate her style of short sentences, slogan and compressed manifesto that used to catch the attention of the paper reader. Helvetica font and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:47 AM - Jun 14/2006
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ART FID [F]original, Authenticity as consensual hallucination

ART, FID, Foriginal, übermorgen, Hartware MedienKunstVerein - Phoenix Halle, rfid, art_fid_f_original.jpg

It's open till July 16th the personal exhibition of the seminal net.art group übermorgen, at Hartware MedienKunstVerein - Phoenix Halle in Dortmund (Germany). The works are ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 06:39 PM - Jun 10/2006
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activism . copyright . hacktivism . literature . net

Charade, oral tradition in the electronic era

Imagine that your most precious book is about to be wiped out. Will you be able to memorize a paragraph, a chapter or the whole text? This is the statement in the call for joining Charade, the last effort by Simon Pope (a member of the historical I/O/D ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:30 PM - May 13/2006
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activism . hacktivism . media

Zone Interdite, mapping the secret territories

Zone Interdite, Christopher Wachter, zone_interdite.jpg

According to the story, when Lady Godiva used to ride naked trough the streets of Coventry, only the curious Tom was so brave to look at her, becoming blind because of this violation. From legend to cinema, history is full of interdicted to view areas. However it is not weird wondering if the voyeurism, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 07:18 PM - Apr 20/2006
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activism . art . hacktivism . media . tv . video

Satellite of Love - Witte de With

The cathodic tube and its pervasive spread in the contemporaneity are a rich argument in itself. But during the latest Rotterdam FIlm Festival, the Witte de With museum has developed a entire program on the television production mechanisms, unveiling them to a large public. It was made by different ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:59 AM - Apr 19/2006
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activism . art . hacking

Florian Waldvogel, miserable failure

Entering the words 'Florian Waldvogel' into a Google search, the first listed result is an open letter entitled 'Intellectual theft as a curatorial method'. It is the attempt to reproduce the well known 'miserable failure' google bomb that exploded damaging the ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:48 PM - Mar 17/2006
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