A NEWBORN sign was circulating through the media, i.e. New York Times, Syndey Morning Herald, BBC and Pravda, and had been made visible by hundreds of internet-postings in blogs, Flickr and Youtube. The media presence made the sign apparently hyperprecise and generic: One could get any information about the sign: Produced by […]
FEEDFORWARD. The Angel of History Cleaning up after the 20th century. What is progress now? The Angel of History addresses the current moment in history where the wreckage of political conflict and economic inequality is piling up, while globalized forceslargely enabled by the “progress” of digital information technologies inexorably feed us forward. The exhibition title […]
A participative dis/play – Is the voice of the piece renarrating a TV-report about a failed and half way interrupted attack of a Palestinian boy on an Israelian checkpoint, or, unfolding a fictive imagination about a hybridisation of the suicide bomber with a military robot and its surrounding security architecture into an undecodable animated being? […]
export white_sovereign=’not_here() { while [ enclosed ] ; do echo “naked bandit: here, not here”; echo $white_sovereign| sed -e “s/ ( not_here ) /(& \& ) /g”> clone.sh; done; } ; ( not_here ) & wait $!’ ; sh -c “$white_sovereign” set-up for audio, code processes and the voice of the audience
knowbotic research’s Minds of Concern::Breaking News consists of a gallery installation, web interface, and news-tickers. The project web site contains a Minds of Concern list of groups, movements, and non-governmental associations (NGOs) that have a global presence on the Internet. By clicking a name, visitors trigger a set of network processes that investigate the security […]
IO_lavoro immateriale is a collaborative database on the Internet, generated during the time of the Venice Biennale ’99 by Maurizio Lazzarato (political theorist), Luther Blisset (collective of media activists), Michael Hardt (philosopher), Hans Ulrich Reck (media theorist), Enzo Rullani (economist) and Iaia Vantaggiato (journalist). The database serves as an open discursive machine to question the […]
For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. And this fact is only threatening to those women who still define the master’s house as their only source of support.[1] […]
Hacking the City 05.06 – 26. 09. 2010 Folkwang Museum Essen Kuratorin: Sabine Schmidt
How to crack it!’ was the information and encouragement the computer magazine PC Online offered to readers in issue 10/2000, followed by precise instructions on how to take part in the boldly announced scheme: ‘The CD supplied with this issue contains the brute force attack software you need to participate to crack the password. After […]
werde los, Funktion, drucklos [infected, as not] : infection room + urban project — in development The [infected, as not] project introduces a new figure, an ephemeral urban border crosser, an infected being, into the grey zone of the human-animal distinction. The [infected, as not] are creatures that intensify the zone of indistinction between […]
Opaque Presence / Manual of Latent Invisibilities ed.: Andreas Broeckmann , knowbotic research 156 pages, Broschur / ISBN 978-3-03734-108-7 published by diaphanes Berlin, Edition Jardins des Pilotes