Archive for the ‘activism’ tag
Repetitionr
Repetitionr, 2010. A new net project by Les Liens Invisibles.
Sokkomb
New York Post, Special Edition
“SPECIAL EDITION” NEW YORK POST from The Yes Men on Vimeo.
They played with our hopes (and with politicians’ promises) with a fake New York Times on the end of Iraq war and with a fake International Herald Tribune (released in collaboration with Greenpeace) announcing a massive reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. This morning, The Yes Men orchestrated another “collective allucination” distributing a “special edition” New York Post blaring headlines that their city could face deadly heat waves, in perfect tabloid-style.
You can read my report on the New York Times – Special Edition here. The video they made in that occasion is still my favourite one:
B-roll of fake New York Times Distribution, November 12, 2008 from H Schweppes on Vimeo.
LOOKING FOR A COUNTER-PROTOCOL. INTERVIEW WITH ALEXANDER GALLOWAY
LOOKING FOR A COUNTER-PROTOCOL. INTERVIEW WITH ALEXANDER GALLOWAY
Domenico Quaranta
Published in “Cluster. On Innovation”, n. 5, 2005, pp. 18 – 21, © Cluster 2005
He was the content director of Rhizome.org, new media art’s most important database online. As an artist he collaborated with the creation of Every Image and StarryNight, two interfaces that offer alternative (and Poetic) visualization of structure and contents for the online database . As a member of the collective RSG (Radical Software Group), he invented Carnivore, a software that monitors the flux of information on the web, based on a homonymous system developed by the FBI. Carnivore, was winner of Ars Electronica Golden Nica of 2002, it works as an artists community server, artists are invited to develop “clients” that interpret with creative expression the data flux.
Assitant professor at the Department of Culture and Communication of New York University, ALEXANDER GALLOWAY is currently working of his second book, entitled Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture. His first book, Protocol, published by MIT Press in April 2004, was immediately the cause for an intense debate on the nature of networks, stating that – on the basis of a careful analysis of the code, its grammar and syntax, and of the web protocols – its founding principle is control.
Cluster asks him some questions on his work as an artist and theoretic. And his journey that lead from the utopia of the rhizome to the ghost of control.
Dal Networking al Web 2.0
A lecture I had in Genova, at the Museo di Arte Contemporanea Villa Croce, on June 17, 2009, as part of the panel discussion Arte 2.0. Giornata di studi su arte e Web. Presentation on Google Docs.
