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Highscreen, hacking public spaces with media archaeology
Net.Art already belongs to media archaeology as Oslo 2003 “Written in Stone” exhibition clearly stated. Exhibiting net art has always been all about commitment, because it is simply not possible to avoid interpretation if you want to show this art in a way that engages the audience in an exhibition space beyond the click of a mouse. But what happens if the action of exhibiting net.art, becomes an artwork in itself and the display area is the public space?
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Floppy Drive Reverb, recycling floppy drives as tape delays
Self taught computer chip designer Jeri Ellsworth known for making an emulation of the Commodore 64 that fits into a joystick has recently found a new application for old floppy drives and diskettes. This storage technology,
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The Virtual State of Jefferson, a router state
Artists Ethan Miller and Ethan Ham have made an art installation in the Schneider Museum of Art, at the University of Southern Oregon, that transforms their university into the University of Jefferson, at least temporarily. The installation is called 'The Virtual State of Jefferson' . The work is a poetic yet also reflection
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edited by Mattin & Anthony Iles - Noise & Capitalism
Arteleku Audiolab, ISBN 978-8479086221, Spain, 2009, EnglishThis book is an exception to the rule that a product can be judged from its price. It is free (either downloading it or trading a printed copy) and it sports professional editing, graphic design and production. But it seems just a direct consequence of the ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Buttons, shooting somewhere else
When you take a picture, a moment becomes a memory. The memory becomes matter. Publishing photos, through services like Flickr, has added a new dimension to the photographic process for many people. Publishing a picture on the web becomes an intentional part of the shooting process. By
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Bill Wasik - And Then There's This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture
Viking Adult, ISBN 978-0670020843
, USA, 2009, EnglishBill Wasik makes internet experiments on viral culture. He organized the first (pointless) flash mob in New York, and went on with other effective strategies, exploiting online trust and community building techniques. It's the good old meme resurgence in the times of social networking, tested through a ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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edited by Konrad Becker and Felix Stalder - Deep Search: The Politics of Search Beyond Google
Studienverlag & Transaction Publishers, ISBN 978-3706547956, Austria, 2009, EnglishThe centrality of search engines in everyday lives has recently been focused on by different institutions involved in the critical analysis of Internet culture. Among them are the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam, and the World-Information Institute in Vienna that organized the Deep Search conference, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Island2, a squatted computer memory zone
Conceptually, a computer's memory is not only the place where code and data are temporary hosted, but it is also the short term reference for everything that is rendered on the screen. In a way, it represents something like the computer's "awareness" at a given moment, more than its "short term"
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Web 2.0 suicide machine + Seppukoo, social network self-destruction
Parodies of social networking services started to appear since the Friendster boom in the early 2000s. Anti-social networking platforms as introvertster, snubster, enemybook or isolatr playfully subverted online community dynamics targeting their shallowness as much as
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deadSwap, clandestine offline filesharing
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
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Mathieu O'Neil - Cyberchiefs: Autonomy and Authority in Online Tribes
Pluto Press, ISBN 978-0745327969, UK, 2009, EnglishThe internet, in the early days of social spreading, has represented the utopia of a medium fully supporting horizontal organizations within self established communities. If this has partially happened, especially in the most successful cases, it is also thanks to an internal organization that explicitly or implicitly establishes hierarchies. The communities that are able to produce outstanding outcomes ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Aymeric Mansoux, Marloes de Valk - FLOSS+Art
Mute Publishing Ltd, ISBN 978-1906496180, UK, 2009, EnglishAdvocacy of FLOSS model in culture is a nodal strategy for change, and is important to keep in mind what the two editors Aymeric Mansoux and Marloes de Valk state in the introduction: "software industry no longer sells software: it sells licenses." Starting from here their proposed path through all the ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Ed Piskor - Wizzywig (volume 1, phreak, volume 2, hacker)
book, DIY, USA, 2009, EnglishThe first two volumes of Wizzywig are professionally self produced comics on hacker topics. They fictionally retell classic stories on the two topics, but any informed reader can recognize some very well known traits in the characters and events in the narrative. And in the end the reader discovers he was ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Sound Chaser, running a vinyl rail track
Almost none of the dozens of interactive music tables have escaped the "abstraction" trap, sticking with similar, familiar "elements" made in perfect geometric shapes that assume the identity of "instruments", "samples", "drums", you name it. Yuri Suzuki's "Sound Chaser" instead tries to exploit a connective system that has already
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WikiLeaks, sensitive documents as a common
WikiLeaks is an astonishing community platform that publishes anonymous submissions and leaks of sensitive documents relating to governmental, corporate, or religious acts, effectively preserving the anonymity and untraceability of its
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Qwitter, the Darwinian side of social networks
Twitter is the web service that perfectly epitomizes the information sharing addiction of our age. The micro-blogging platform allows users to create a constant flow of short text-based messages (tweets) that can be spread with different systems, such as SMS, RSS or Instant Messaging. Updates usually
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Matthew G. Kirschenbaum - Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination
The MIT Press, ISBN 9780262113113, U.S.A., 2008, EnglishThe cover of Mechanisms shows a hard drive recovered from the ruins of the World Trade Centre, a scorched and partially destroyed ‘black box’ from which data was nevertheless successfully recovered in the aftermath of the terrorist disaster. A haunted artifact, this unsettling image speaks volumes of the ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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China Channel, Firefox add-on to browse behind the Wall
Among all countries that limit access to Internet content, China has the most extensive censorship. Thanks to the Golden Shield Project (aka Great Firewall of China), China has proved itself able to deny a vast majority of its Internet users access to information that it feels could weaken its authoritarian power.
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Autechre Reverse Engineering
Robbie Martin (as known as Fluorescent Grey) is a musician and provocateur who has become famous as a producer of fake material. He was responsible for the video of an American soldier’s beheading in Iraq (actually the "victim" was his friend Ben Vanderford aka The Great White Hype), which was
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Un-Dead-Link, physical death of a computer game
Japanese media art unit Exonemo’s latest work focuses on the differences between two worlds - the real, physical and our increasingly information-based, virtual. Citations of doubt in the real world itself among the two artists (Sembo Kensuke and Yae Akaiwa) led to an identification and consideration of a
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Real Snail Mail turns email into slower email
The "Real Snail Mail" project by Paul Smith and Vicky Isley (of the art sna design team, Boredom Research in the UK) is an attempt to create a metaphoric truth of what is commonly called "snail mail" by imparting the act of carrying a digital message onto the back of an actual snail. By attaching a small antenna and electronic
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The Reconfigurable House, how to remain smarter than your house.
Have you ever dreamt of going home after a long day at work and being able to change the colour of your walls according to your mood? Well, this is what the Reconfigurable House 2.0 will allow you to do. The interactive installation by Adam Somlai-Fischer,
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Emotoscope, the emotional time machine
The Japanese artist Kenichi Okada works a lot with how the perception of the moving image interlaces with the viewer's emotional state. Emotoscope, for example, is a sort of portable camera device, which is capable of changing the viewpoint of whomever films, hence
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BeatBox, the rhythmic desktop
Karl D.D. Willis, known as a Japanese label Progressive Form leading act and for Sonasphere project with Nao Tokui, is also appreciated for realizing some innovative prototypes, as this BeatBox. As its name might suggest it's a small box created to give voice to our desktop's sound universe. Usually when we're sitting at our own (home
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(collected and Illustrated by) Henning Wagenbreth - Cry for Help, 36 Scam Emails from Africa
book - Gingko Press - ISBN 1584232455Formerly known as 'Nigeria Scam', the scam emails only apparently coming from Africa are a classic in the phishing category. This kind of spam constitutes a genre in itself, because scam is one of the most psychological sophisticated spam, dealing with plausibly constructing a story, and one of the most ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Tinnitus Tamer, electronic aural homeopathy
VAVAsoft is an unusual software house: its two applications seem to be the outcome of creator's real needs more than the outcome of some market-driven strategies. Tinnitus Tamer is a tone generator replicating in a very flexible and precise way the tinnitus phenomenon produced by our neuronal ear
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2.4Ghz, detourned surveillance
The new project by RECYCLISM ™ is hitting, as many media artists are doing yet, the prosperous muse of wireless technologies. 2.4Ghz™ exploits wireless netcams populating the urban space in a very simple but interesting way. BNJMN™ GAULON (alias Benjamin Gaulon) has been riding the streets of a few European cities with a wireless video
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Plink Jet, plucking inkjet printers
One of the most common practices in the media art field has always been the hacking of everyday tools, like the countless devices that expand our own computer potential. In recent years, within this trend, we can single out a specific one that uses different kinds of printers with a pure performative
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Inside / Out, wereable tecnologies social potential
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
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New American Dictionary: Security/Fear Edition, lexicon for warmongers
The last Canadian Institute for Infinitely Small Things action is both provocative and funny. They distributed in the culturally exciting city of Vancouver public libraries and bookstores around 40 copies of the New American Dictionary: Security/Fear Edition.
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Constraint City, body as a living map
Gordan Savicic's project Costraint City - The Pain of Everyday life, exploits in a brilliant way the electromagnetic waves generated by the wireless networks spread all over the urban territory, mapping them out on his own body thanks to a jacket equipped with servo
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Interception, camera hijacking against surveillance
Interception is a performance of pure 'urban hacktivism', held in Poland by Roch Forowicz, an artist from Warsaw very focused on the experimentations involving video technologies with respect to surveillance and violation of privacy. In
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Hackmeeting 2007, ten years nerdcore
There are only a few events (in the range of thousands of participants) completely self-organized and self funded that can boast a decade of yearly editions, all very well attended and never in the same city. It's the Italian Hackmeeting, a unique meeting of hackers at large that is quite different from the US/North Europe based similar meetings. It'll take place in Pisa 28-30 September, in the nth hosting squatted place called Rebeldia and will sport the
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Otto Von Busch, Karl Palms - Abstract Hacktivism: The Making of a Hacker Culture
book - Openmute - ISBN 9780955479625Hacktivism needs theory to evolve continuously from a practice based concept to an abstract tool for inducing substantial changes in economy and society. But can the hacker paradigmatic revolution be considered a cultural shift similar to the one triggered in culture and society in 1968? Even if that ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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McKenzie Wark - Gamer Theory
Harvard University Press - ISBN 0674025199After remixing 'The Capital' with genuine hacker culture (in the 'A Hacker Manifesto'), McKenzie Wark felt the urge to shift to another hotbed for the current media culture debate: computer games. Instead of ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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