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Nick Dyer-Witheford, Greig de Peuter - Games of Empire: Global Capitalism and Video Games
University of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 978-0816666119, USA, 2009, EnglishActivism (or better hacktivism) usually conjugates with video games when a new political or highly controversial art-game (or artistic intervention in a game platform) is announced. Otherwise the most profitable entertainment industry is not very affected by political criticism, and neither are the hordes of ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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various editors - monochrom #26-34 Ye Olde Self-Referentiality
edition mono/monochrom, ISBN 978-3950237269, Austria, 2010, EnglishPrinting a 500-page book using the look and feel of a nineties xeroxed fanzine, with an impressive number of essays is a clear statement in 2010. This is not meant to be an outrageously expensive art book for collectors, nor a sleek coffee table book to be flipped through in an alternative club. It is ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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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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Elizabeth Losh - Virtualpolitik
The MIT Press, ISBN 978-0262123044, USA, 2009, EnglishIn middle nineties EFF founder John Perry Barlow wrote "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" formalizing the new autonomy from the real world bureaucracy and its walls as felt then by the Internet elite. Among the different statements it still can be read as a mounting impatience with digitally illiterate bureaucrats and their failing rhetoric, generated by a growing fear of an open and ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Franco "Bifo" Berardi - The Soul at Work
Semiotext(e), ISBN 978-1584350767, USA, 2009, EnglishThe life of the Italian philosopher Franco Bifo Berardi has been often connected to contemporaneity. After his seminal gestures and exploits in the seventies, his fundamental writings in the nineties about communication technologies and social movements, and his pivotal contribution to the birth of ... [ 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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How to build a fake Google Street View car and keep your data
Google Street View is an application that allows users to virtually dive into Google's popular Maps feature and travel around at street level. It uses millions of 3D photographs to give users a 360° horizontal and 290° vertical view of their location. The photos are typically taken via car-mounted
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edited by Wolfgang Sützl & Geoff Cox - Creating Insecurity: art and culture in the age of security, DATA browser 04
Autonomedia, ISBN 978-1570272059, UK, 2009, EnglishThe 4th anthology of texts realized by the DATA Browser series editorial group, is focused on "security", an ambiguous yet extremely popular concept, exploited by governments in order to claim its necessity, programmability and the consequent need to build a security infrastructure. The artificiality of this approach and the dangerous consequences of the current unilateral concern for security inspired the ... [ 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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Steve Goodman - Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear
The MIT Press, ISBN-13: 978-0262013475, U.S.A., 2010, EnglishSound waves can't usually damage your ears unless you constantly keep headphone volume too high,or you insist on standing very close to tall speakers during a concert for too long. Used in the right way (or wrong way), however, they can be a scary armament, able to inflict various degrees of harassment, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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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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Manuel Castells - Communication Power
Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0199567041, U.S.A., 2009, English"Where does power lie in the network society?" This is the central question that Manuel Castells tries to answer in his first book in ten years. After the disillusionment of the internet utopia as a liberating medium per se, Castells describes society using hardware/software terminology, drawing a stimulating picture. He grounds his analysis of the network society through different mass media conflicts like the ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Can't You See I'm Busy, playing at work without feeling guilty
In the spirit of the "net.art" of the late 1990s, the project "Can't You See I'm Busy" (by Maarten Vrouwes, Friso Ludenhoff, Eric Holm and Vincent Ludenhoff) consists of various arcade games masked into generic office tools like word processing and spreadsheet software in order to hide the activities of the procrastinating cubicle worker. Games
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Rita Raley - Tactical Media
Univ Of Minnesota Press, ISBN 978-0816651511, USA, 2009, EnglishDespite being developed from a singular historical context, tactical media has shown remarkable staying power as a conceptual framework for politically engaged media art projects. In the classic theorization by Geert Lovink and David Garcia for the Next Five Minutes events, Michel de Certeau’s ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Pirate Kiosk, pirating the Internet in off-line mode
As the availability of copyrighted files online increases exponentially worldwide, artists and hackers are finding ways of distributing and making this data available without intentionally breaking international copyright laws. The "Pirate Kiosk", based at the Sophienstiftsplatz in Weimar, Germany, attempts to make a copy of the famous torrent tracker site, "The
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Tatiana Bazzichelli - Networking, The Net as Artwork
Digital Aesthetic Research Center, Aarhus University, ISBN 8791810086
, Denmark, 2009, EnglishThis text is a summary of the author's efforts (beginning in the late-nineties) to analyse and facilitate opportunities to link digital artists and activists. Bazzichelli is the founder of the AHA mailing list, the most popular in Italian art and hacktivism. Here she relates a few of the scene's more peculiar moments ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Matteo Pasquinelli - Animal Spirits, A Bestiary of the Commons
NAi Publishers, ISBN 978-9056626631, The Netherlands, 2009, EnglishHow can gentrification, free culture, pornography and Baudrillard coexist in the pages of the same book? Animal Spirits: A Bestiary of the Commons is a peculiar and oblique work that challenges many of cyberculture's recurring narratives. Matteo Pasquinelli, media activist and net porn expert, successfully ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Netless, turning ad-hoc networks into homebrew ubiquity.
Taking a lesson from the advent of distributed mobile ad-hoc networks, "Netless", is a home brew version of these systems that employs a small wireless device and with built-in storage, that swaps data between other devices when they are in close physical proximity. Rather than rely on cell towers for connectivity, the project employs a large amount
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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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Internet-avgift, a torrent of payments
Pirate Bay owners Gottfrid Svartholm (aka anakata), Peter Sunde (aka brokep), Fredrik Neij (aka TiAMO), and Carl Lundstrom recently were given prison sentences for their roles in running a BitTorrent torrent aggregator that centralises free music, film and software trading. Ordered to pay 30 million Swedish
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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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Oil Prospecting, DIY rush for oil
Jon Cohrs is a visual artist and recording engineer whose work has focused on exploring technology and how it can promote connections that invoke a sense of development and growth. His last project, Winner of a Futuresonic 2009 Art Award Commission, is called Oil Prospecting and consists of a device
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Feral Trade, trading goods through social networks
Feral Trade (Import-Export) is an artist-run grocery business established in Bristol in 2003. According to Kate Rich, the inventor, it is a public experiment which trades goods via social networks. Products are run along social routes, avoiding official channels of distribution in preference for a hand-carried cargo system, often using other artists or curators as
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FLOSS Manuals Community Members - How to bypass Internet Censorship
Lulu, U.S.A., 2008, EnglishWhat happens when skilled Floss activists decide to embrace the printed medium? Adam Hyde, known as one half of the pioneering Radioqualia internet and radio art / sound group and forerunner of the Floss movement in the arts, decided to start a series of manuals, embodying the very same Floss spirit ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Gomorra fake dvd, Camorra’s piracy
The beginning of December saw the release of the DVD version of the Italian film ‘Gomorrah’, based on the best selling book by Roberto Saviano. This piece of news wouldn't be that extraordinary, if it wasn't for the fact that, if you walked through the centre of Naples several days previously, you could already
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Colin J. Bennett - The Privacy Advocates, Resisting the Spread of Surveillance
The MIT Press, ISBN 9780262026383, U.S.A., 2008, EnglishPrivacy is one of strangest beasts of our time. It's something we are supposed to defend strenuously, but also something we give away for free too often. And because of this alternate awareness it would perhaps be best considered as one of the most immaterial belongings of the whole immaterial ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Christian Fuchs - Internet and Society, Social Theory in the Information Age
Routledge, ISBN 9780415961325, U.S.A., 2008, EnglishChristian Fuchs is a young and talented Austrian social scientist who focuses his research on information-society theory. In this text he's constructing a social theory of the Internet. Relating to what is commonly referred to as "social informatics", he begins to discuss concepts and historical ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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David Joselit - Feedback: Television against Democracy
The MIT Press, ISBN 9780262101202, U.S.A., 2007, EnglishThere are plenty of scientific facts which testify to the pervasiveness of television, and to the ease with which it affects our consciousness, creating what the author defines as the "image ecology". He focuses on the postwar media art, especially the early video art, not scrutinizing every single major artist of that ... [ 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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Branka Ćurčić, Zoran Pantelić - Public Netbase: Non Stop Future, New Practices in Art and Media
Revolver, ISBN 9783865884558, Germany, 2008, Englisht0/Public Netbase has undoubtedly played an important historical role in new media art and politics. Konrad Becker, its initiator and the visionary behind Public Netbase, placed the epicentre of its activities in Vienna in early nineties (its website was one of the very first on the scene with plenty of texts and ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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edited by Megan Boler - Digital Media and Democracy: Tactics in Hard Times
The MIT Press, ISBN 9780262026420, USA, 2008, EnglishThe gigantic media effort to justify the senseless war in Iraqi has become an historical case study for 21st century journalism (as the first Gulf War used to be for the nineties). With respect to modes of communication we are in divisive times, with power and media ownership on one side and alternative ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Oiligarchy, playing with the Oil Peak theory
Oiligarchy is the new online flash game released by Mollenidustria. In this new adventure designed by Paolo Pedercini the player is CEO of a major international oil company. He acts as an "oiligarch" with the only goal to increase his capital and keep the carbon-fossil based economy as profitable as possible. The game starts after Second World
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