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Dragan Espenschied, Olia Lialina - Digital Folklore: To Computer Users, with Love and Respect
Merz Akademie, ISBN-13: 978-3937982250, Germany, 2009, EnglishOlga Lialina and Dragan Espenschied have invested a huge amount of time in investigating something that others have simplistically dismissed as "mundane". They have been among the very few to understand the importance of a historic moment (the first years of the world wide web) and the birth of its "pop culture" - a history they appropriately define as "digital folklore". Beyond the recurrent naivete ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + del.icio.us | + digg | TrackBacks (0) |
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Temporary.cc, interaction is destruction
Digital data has a paradoxical status. Immaterial by definition, it nonetheless has a need for a physical substance (hardware) to manifest itself. Eternal and not subject to decay, it is forced to bond its life to the hosting support, inheriting fragility and a tendency to degenerate. Furthermore, data legibility is
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Cornelia Sollfrank - Expanded Original
Hatje Cantz, ISBN 978-3775723909, Germany, 2009, English, GermanThe work of Cornelia Sollfrank is one of the most enlightening attempts to describe the consequences of immateriality in art. She consistently points to the obsolescence of concepts such as "original" and "copyrighted", developing a full spectrum of perspectives. Even if the core of her work comes out of the ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + del.icio.us | + digg | 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 | + del.icio.us | + digg | TrackBacks (0) |
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Sk8monkey, Twitter's wreckage by Jodi
Misusing technological tools and languages has been a trademark for Jodi.org (Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans) since the mid-nineties, when they emerged as the pioneers of a movement which later became internationally known as net.art. Starting by applying this creative strategy to browsers,
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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 | + del.icio.us | + digg | 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 | + del.icio.us | + digg | TrackBacks (0) |
hacktivism . mobile . net
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 | + del.icio.us | + digg | TrackBacks (0) |
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KeyTweeter, Twitting Without Filters
It has been almost ten years since the launch of Life Sharing by the (then) enfants terribles of net.art known as 0100101110101101.org. The project, which lasted three years, involved the automatic publication in real time of all the data stored on the artists' computer. Documents, emails and
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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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edited by Fan Di'an and Zhang Ga - Synthetic Times: Media Art China
National Art Museum of China, The MIT Press, ISBN 978-0262512268, China/USA, 2009, EnglishDuring the peak period of global attention on China, before the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, the biggest exhibition of digital art in China took place at the National Art Museum in China. It was not really a local effort, but a joint international one, gathering together most of the major historical ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + del.icio.us | + digg | TrackBacks (0) |
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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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Edited by Christiane Paul - New Media in the White Cube and Beyond, Curatorial Models for Digital Art
University of California Press, ISBN 9780520255975, USA, 2008, EnglishThis is an anthology of eight essays plus four case studies on the curatorial practices in digital art. The carefully selected essays by Charlie Gere, Sarah Cook, Steve Dietz, Joasia Krysa, Jon Ippolito, Sara Diamond and Patrick Lichty represent a good compendium of the inherent discourse. This is especially supported by practical issues addressed in the case studies section where curators Beryl Graham, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + del.icio.us | + digg | TrackBacks (0) |
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Bicycle Built for Two Thousand, online workers choral effort
With “Bicycle Built for Two Thousand” Aaron Koblin confirms himself as specialist of crowdsourcing based artworks. As Jeff Howe wrote, "crowdsourcing" is "the act of a company or institution taking a function once performed by employees and outsourcing it to an undefined (and generally large) network of people
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Dead Pixel in Google Earth, hacking satellite maps one pixel at a time
As someone who lives in a major metropolitan city and travels constantly, Google's "Maps" and "Earth" applications are an essential necessity for finding my way through these urban landscapes. Whether it's to meet a friend for coffee in a location I'm not familiar with or to discover the shortest route between
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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 | + del.icio.us | + digg | TrackBacks (0) |
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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 | + del.icio.us | + digg | TrackBacks (0) |
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Thumbarumba, turning the ordinary web into a textual treasure hunt
"Tumbarumba" by New York-based media artist Ethan Ham is a Firefox extension that implants stories by "outstanding authors" into the text of ordinary websites. This unexpected infiltration of poetry into common everyday web surfing presents a shift in context away from the mundane act of visiting a website into a literary
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I left this here for you to read, networked distribution magazine
Tim Devin, a conceptual artist based in Boston is producing one of the most striking magazines in the world: you can't buy it from a newsstand, nor from any bookshop, and you can't even read it on the Internet. The encounter with "i left this here for you to read" (this is its name) can only
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Antidatamining, a cartography of chaos.
Anti datamining is a transversal research project based on the recovery and the viewing/visualization of internet financial data flows. It aims at creating audiovisual environments written, fed and updated in real-time. The project finds its roots in the Data Mining practice, which focuses on producing optimum
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Junk Jet n.2, the speculative architecture issue
igmade.edition, ISSN 1865-9357, Germany, 2008, English / GermanEdited in Stuttgart by Asli Serbest, Mona Mahall and Gerd de Bruyn, this "Fanzine for Electronics and Aesthetics" is the newest experiment in integrating digital culture content into a broader cultural spectrum. With a Spartan layout, consisting of mostly articles and essays and no reviews, it is printed in ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + del.icio.us | + digg | 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 | + del.icio.us | + digg | TrackBacks (0) |
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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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m/e/m/e 2.0, interactive installation parodying web 2.0
It is a matter of fact that in the Web 2.0 era people live their second existences diving into the so-called metaverse, the meta-universe populated by avatars as described by Neal Stephenson (1992). However, the progressive phenomenon of cyborgisation happens when people use prosthetic technology
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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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Bufferrrbreakkkdownnn Arkestra, aural network test
Marcos Destructos (aka Marc Chia, aka One Man Nation) has completed a compelling investigation of data transmission over computer networks with his recent "Bufferrrbreakkkdownnn Arkestra". The
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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 | + del.icio.us | + digg | 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 | + del.icio.us | + digg | TrackBacks (0) |
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Alexander Galloway and Eugene Thacker - The Exploit: A Theory of Networks
book - Univ Of Minnesota Press - ISBN: 9780816650446Manuel Castells once offered the provocation, "the network is the message". Networks, he claimed, have become the dominant mode of organising the social. While discourse on networks has only proliferated since Castells, there has been little critical engagement with the network form in its own right. In "The ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + del.icio.us | + digg | TrackBacks (0) |
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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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