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Directory Of Fictitious Telephone Numbers - Impossible Transmissions

An aseptic space. One white table and on it a printed directory, accompanied by an apparently normal looking telephone. It would seem the right environment to make a call. And calls are, in fact, made. The phone operates automatically, dialling random numbers from the many listed in the phone book ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:15 AM - Mar 13/2013
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Pixelhead - Digital Mimesis

Pixelhead is a simple balaclava made with an elastic fabric very similar to swimsuit material. Its aesthetic appearance, however, is quite specific: the decorative pattern chosen by Martin Backes is indeed "pixelated" and the colour palette is similar to those that a face or a head shot would have if photographed by a digital camera ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 02:50 PM - Jan 1/2013
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Paranoid Shelter, invisibly boxed

Paranoid Shelter,fabric | ch, chiara ciociola, paranoid_shelter.jpg

A high density of monitoring devices crowds the space of the installation "Paranoid Shelter", a project by the architecture research group fabric | ch. Despite the word "shelter" reminding of an atavistic sense of protection given by a closed and protected space, the skeletal appearance of the work is already alienating. The installation space is in fact occupied by three tall posts, dark and imposing, from which ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 07:18 PM - May 28/2012
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art . net . privacy

Poser, invading digital photo frames

poser, Constant Dullaart, vito campanelli, neural, poser.jpg

In a very short time since they appeared, digital photo frames have become so popular that they now regularly invite aesthetic experimentation. In his recent project Poser, Constant Dullaart has offered an ironic view of this media. Slipping inside the device, the artist has designed some chroma keys of ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 06:33 PM - Oct 28/2011
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People Staring at Computers: the discreet gaze of the commodities

Kyle McDonald, People staring at computers, Paolo Pedercini, Apple, Steve Jobs, people_staring_at_computers.jpg

Kyle McDonald is well-known for exploring the boundaries of public and private space in our post-privacy world. With his Keytweeter he placed himself under digital surveillance for an entire year, capturing everything he typed with a keylogger and posting in on Twitter - 140 keystrokes at time. His most recent project gives another conceptual twist on spyware. 'People staring at ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:22 AM - Sep 7/2011
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My little piece of Privacy, mechanically stopping voyerism

Niklas Roy, My little piece of Privacy, my_little_pece_of_privacy.jpg

Niklas Roy plays with the concept of privacy in his recent interactive installation My Little Piece of Privacy . To defend his laboratory in Berlin from prying eyes he has in fact dressed its largest window, which directly looks out onto the street, with a curtain. The very small size of this curtain, however, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 06:26 PM - Dec 23/2010
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Panopticons, surveillance birds

Panopticons, Thomas voor 't Hekke, Bas van Oerle, panopticons.jpg

Bentham's eighteenth-century dystopia, the idea of an architectural space that allows total visibility and control, returns in the project Panopticons made by a couple of Dutch students at the Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU): Thomas voor ‘t Hekke and Bas van Oerle. In this modern take the Panopticon is no longer a prison, but it becomes a system of winged ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:40 AM - Sep 24/2010
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art . privacy . psychogeography

Global Safari (Powered by Google), the formation of the world's image

Global Safari, Wellington Cançado, Renata Marquez, global_safari_2.jpg

"Images are meant to render the world accessible and imaginable to man" Villem Flusser wrote in his well-known 1983 book "Towards a Philosophy of Photography" which analyzed the transition from prehistoric, traditional images to posthistorical, technical ones. No longer formed by "authors", but by anyone who operates a camera or other apparatus, technical images have been opening windows to ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:43 PM - Sep 1/2010
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Desire of Codes, the tentacles of the surveillance beast

Desireof Codes, Seiko Mikami, YCAM, desire_of_codes.jpg

We're accustomed to being under surveillance. We've taken for granted that cameras are everywhere "for our own safety". And we don't care anymore of being recorded in the street 30, 60 or 100 times (or even more) everyday. How has it happened? One of the reasons is that all these cameras around us are "passive". They're there, they record their memory, then they delete ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Jul 28/2010
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art . media . mobile . privacy . psychogeography

Habitar - Bending the urban frame 2010 report from Laboral

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Check the Habitar photo set here. Invisible Architectures: the curiosity generated by this paradox is the starting point of Habitar - Bending the urban frame, the new stage of the broader curatorial path taken by Mediateca Expandida of the Laboral in Gijon, curated by José Luis de Vicente, with the help of Fabien Girardin. The aim is to show ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:53 AM - Jun 30/2010
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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 ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:02 PM - Apr 19/2010
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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, English
The 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 ]

Posted at 06:29 PM - Mar 22/2010
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art . hacktivism . performance . privacy

How to build a fake Google Street View car and keep your data

F.A.T. (Free Art & Technology) Lab, fake Google Street View, fat_fake_google_street_view_car.jpg

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 ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 07:05 AM - Mar 19/2010
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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, English
The 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 ]

Posted at 04:56 PM - Mar 16/2010
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art . privacy . visual

Stolen Moments, a human webcam in New York

Stolen Moments, Yasmine Chatila, stolen_moments.jpg

The process of getting used to being constantly watched and monitored by webcams, social networks and unscrupulous invaders of our privacy has certainly had an effect on our expressions and movements. Our everyday gestures have necessarily taken on an artificial quality due to the feeling of ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:28 AM - Feb 19/2010
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