Technology use in Developing Nations
William Kamkwamba talks about his Windmill Construction
Malawi Cyber-subsistence & Globalization
Build Your Own Cellular Network
South Korean Couple Charged with ‘Web Neglect’
A South Korean couple have gone on trial charged with allowing their baby daughter to starve to death while they played an online computer game.
Journalism/ Exposure Based activism:
Spectacle / Re-appropriation:
New York Times – Special Edition
FBI Raid Steve Kurtz’s Home
They Rule by Josh On
The Institute for Applied Autonomy
Contestational Robotics – Institute for Applied Autonomy from Rich Pell on Vimeo.
StreetWriter 2001 – Institute for Applied Autonomy from Rich Pell on Vimeo.
Divination2.0 by Emily Schleiner :: April 23, 2010; 8:00 pm :: Media Labs, 58 North 6th, Brooklyn.
The project has been an exercise in bringing the emergent experience of our social/computerized self to a precise space, creating an architectural feeling with video and sound using visuals of items like screws, wires, and other small parts.
Upon entering Divination2.0, one sees a glowing round mandala that makes visible and frames commonplace words associated with computers. At the touch of movement in the Mandala, people are invited in to meditate in stillness. After calmness is sensed by the computer, people can then enter an on-the-spot-created password to find out what Divination2.0 will respond with. This program utilizes a Google-generated image response as well as recent sociology research on the changing relationship between technology users and culture to treat each participant to his or her unique reading.
Hitler reacts to the Hitler parodies being removed from YouTube
Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon
Panoramic Painting
Wikileaks – a multi-jurisdictional organization to protect internal dissidents, whistleblowers, journalists and bloggers who face legal or other threats related to publishing
Wikileaks is currently releasing on to the ‘net more than half a million confidential pager messages sent around September 11, 2001. The data includes pager messages sent by officials from the NYPD and the Pentagon, as well as citizens who witnessed the collapse of the twin towers – It remains unclear where all the data came from
How Effective is Surveillance?
1,000 CCTV cameras in London solve 1 crime
Crowdsourced border patrol via webcam
Information Awareness Office
Art and Surveillance
Modern Times from Chris Coleman on Vimeo.
SNIFF: public interactive projection
*project by Karolina Sobecka with software development by Jim George
As you walk down the street you are approached by a dog. He is on his guard trying to discern your intentions. He will follow you and interpret your gestures as friendly or aggressive. He will try to engage you in a relationship and get you to pay attention to him.
Sniff from karolina sobecka on Vimeo.
Roger Ebert declares: “Video Games can never be Art”
Class action lawsuit against creators of Second Life for property loss and wrongful expulsion
How to prevent your IP address from being tracked using TOR
Steven Levy describes Facebook CEO as embodying Hacker ideals
The Telectroscope – Paul St George
Blinkenlights Stereoscope Toronto Documentation Video from Tim Pritlove on Vimeo.
The Moonite Scare (NOT THE GRL)
Locative Media and Mapping Projects
A user generated open-source editable map
Stweet – an artistic project dealing with the appropriation of geographical, photographic and real-time data from the Web.
It offers a real new way enriched representation of information created on internet by two major players of the web, Twitter and Google.
CityPoems- an iPhone app that allows london users to navigate the city through poetry
Don’t Copy that Floppy
Hacker Culture:
Hackers as represented in Pop Culture
Hacker Punishment
Hacker Sentenced to 20 Years for Breach of Credit Card Processor
Trojan Horse Hacks
The Hacker Manifesto
Written January 8, 1986
Another one got caught today, it’s all over the papers. “Teenager Arrested in Computer Crime Scandal”, “Hacker Arrested after Bank Tampering”…
Damn kids. They’re all alike.
But did you, in your three-piece psychology and 1950′s technobrain, ever take a look behind the eyes of the hacker? Did you ever wonder what made him tick, what forces shaped him, what may have molded him?
I am a hacker, enter my world…
Mine is a world that begins with school… I’m smarter than most of the other kids, this crap they teach us bores me…
Damn underachiever. They’re all alike.
I’m in junior high or high school. I’ve listened to teachers explain for the fifteenth time how to reduce a fraction. I understand it. “No, Ms. Smith, I didn’t show my work. I did it in my head…”
Damn kid. Probably copied it. They’re all alike.
I made a discovery today. I found a computer. Wait a second, this is cool. It does what I want it to. If it makes a mistake, it’s because I screwed it up. Not because it doesn’t like me… Or feels threatened by me.. Or thinks I’m a smart ass.. Or doesn’t like teaching and shouldn’t be here…
Damn kid. All he does is play games. They’re all alike.
And then it happened… a door opened to a world… rushing through the phone line like heroin through an addict’s veins, an electronic pulse is sent out, a refuge from the day-to-day incompetencies is sought… a board is found. “This is it… this is where I belong…” I know everyone here… even if I’ve never met them, never talked to them, may never hear from them again… I know you all…
Damn kid. Tying up the phone line again. They’re all alike…
You bet your ass we’re all alike… we’ve been spoon-fed baby food at school when we hungered for steak… the bits of meat that you did let slip through were pre-chewed and tasteless. We’ve been dominated by sadists, or ignored by the apathetic. The few that had something to teach found us willing pupils, but those few are like drops of water in the desert.
This is our world now… the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn’t run by profiteering gluttons, and you call us criminals. We explore… and you call us criminals. We seek after knowledge… and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias… and you call us criminals. You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it’s for our own good, yet we’re the criminals.
Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like. My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for.
I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual, but you can’t stop us all… after all, we’re all alike.
Bitforms Show
U-Ram Choe
May 1 – Jun 11
Opening- May 1st 6:30-8:30
bitforms gallery is pleased to announce its second solo exhibition with Korean artist U-Ram Choe. This show will mark the world premiere of new kinetic sculptures inspired by the cosmos. A concurrent exhibition, “New Urban Species,” will be on view at Nashville’s Frist Center for Visual Arts through May 16th.