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Bureau of Inverse Technology
http://www.bureauit.org

Founded in Australia in 1992 and then developed in the U.S.A. during the 90s, the Bureau of Inverse Technology is an information agency servicing the Information Age, developing strategic technoproducts to address contemporary technical and social conditions.

Under the shape of a collective of artists-engineers (supported for particular projects by economists and lawyers), the Bureau of Inverse Technology (BIT) jumped over the scenes for its projects of visionary engineering.

Among these projects BitPlane (1997) should be mentioned: a small scale spy-plane developed by BIT from the "generous residues of coldwar precision", that has been sent in mission over Silicon Valley's off limits areas occupied by computer and aeronautical industry labs.

Another controversial project by BIT is Suicide Box, an installation which has been firstly conceived for the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, one of the U.S. top locations as far as the suicide rate is concerned, where it had to detect and video record in real time any person throwing herself down into the river.

Finally, Autopirate Bit Radio is an automatized system of insertion of short unauthorized messages in the FM frequencies of the internal radio station of the 'World Economic Forum' meeting (New York, 2002).

All the projects by Bureau of Inverse Technology question the common idea of 'neutral' information and are willing to dismantle technology in order to use it in unexpected ways. BIT projects mirror the rhetorics of the hi-tech industry up to deformation, casting unexpected light over the blind spots of our technological society.