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This project
consists of a gallery installation, web interface, and free downloadable
newstickers. Through a graphic interface, visitors can select “Minds
of Concern”—groups, movements, or NGOs such as Oxfam, Freedom
from Debt Coalition, or COSATU—that are engaged in critical global
activities inside our networked society. This list will also include artistic
media activists and all participating artists in the New Museum exhibition.
By clicking a name in this list—either in the installation or on the
website—visitors trigger a set of network processes that investigate
the security conditions of a different server and evaluate whether it is
secure or open to hacking attacks. The software processes used in Minds
of Concern are dramatically transformed and externalized through light and
sound signals in a kind of “Alert Zone” in the main gallery space,
as well as through textual data flows in the installation. A primary aspect
of this installation are plastic constructions made of Rubbermaid™
food boxes and trash baskets, opening up a controlled space for the network
processes as well as signifying the in/stable structures of daily life.
In this project, we determine the borders of what is and what is not legal in the (US) public domain after patriot act (http://unitedwehack.ath.cx/infoPatriotAct.htm), and we are trying to seek out the areas of friction between an active construction of the public domain, the expansive US legal system, and the debilitating dimensions of an intensively patrolled, supposedly open communication and information infrastructure like the Internet.
2002
May 12,2002
CRACKED CRACKED at http://unitedwehack.ath.cx
CRACKED public domain scanner
(infosite)
(flashsite)
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Exhibition at the New Museum New
York
2002
krcf
knowbotic
research in collaboration with Peter Sandbichler (installation)
Wendy
Seltzer http://openlaw.org,
Wolfgang
Staehle +THE THING (Gisela Ehrenfried, Jan Gerber, Walter Palmetshofer),
Thomas Sandbichler, Ingo Guenther, Tim Druckrey, Andreas Broeckmann
Ania
Kurowska, Richie Münch-Jindal, Marco Klingmann, Christoph Burgdorfer
Kunstsektion Austria
Rubbermaid Corp
