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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.
