| FORUM STADTPARK
- Graz February, 28th - March, 1st 2003 |
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| ART IN THE AGE OF HACKING These pages collect a few working materials (notes, links, images) of a short discussion space opened by d-i-n-a agents in collaboration with Forum Stadtpark Graz, Austria (march 2003). The focus of the presentations and debates was on how the hacker culture may be a model (or just a reference) for new kinds of technology-based artistic practice. The history of computer programming is an obvious point of departure, even though we tried not to replicate the well-known mith of the hacker as a 'hero'. Rather, we compiled a sort of possible "screenplay" of the last decades of computer culture, trying to mix revealing anecdotes with a discussion of trends, threads and threats. We called it . ART IN THE TIME OF HACKERS is the catchy and academy-like title we used to frame some projects that show how digital technologies inspire people to create (software, conceptual, performative) artifacts. In this page you can find some links about data recycling, hacking/hacktivism, viruses, reverse engineering applied to consumerist culture, etc. Working with digital data is contemporary plagiarism! In the definitely temporary autonomous Take_Away_Zones #1 and #2 we presented bits (and pieces) of classic definitions of hacker culture (#1) plus a few images and texts (#2) that almost randomly show what we think when we think about the development digital technologies. The original Take_Away_Zones were installed on the walls of Forum Stadtpark as printed material available to discussion participants, passers-by, and the guests of the amazing African party... |
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| A [HI]STORY[-TELLING]
OF HACKER CULTURES .............. These notes are a basic "screenplay" for a history of hacking, a 3 decades long thread of facts and trends that drove the very history of computing and its relevance in the social arena. This collection of facts depicts a new type of socialization of digital technologies which provides insight (and possibly an antidote) to the currently homogeneized world of digital media. SEE > |
T.A.Z. Take_Away_Zone2 .............. keywords: extended use of digital technologies, military complex, viral communication strategies LINKS OUT > |
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| T.A.Z. Take_Away_Zone #1 .............. keywords: the classic history of hacking, the "Jargon file" LINKS OUT > |
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s c r e e n i n g s - - - - - - - - - - - How hacker cultures are represented outside their original environment? How are they represented on another media and for a general audience? We'll show short samples of a number of documentaries and movies, like "Unauthorized Access", "Hippies from Hell", "23", "New York City Hackers", "The Hacktivist". |
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thanx to cym +oskar.. |
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