I just read about Key Tweeter in Networked_performance.. (some info below) It's funny because lately I started to think the debate around privacy is becoming something absolutely irrelevant.. Or at least, outdated.. Our privacy standards have been completely shattered by web 2.0 dynamics.. I'm of those that hasn't got a Facebook account because of some sort of naif ideal of resistance.. it's got such a potential for control.. Now I just feel like trashing all that discourse and looking for new strategies..
This reminds me of a piece I wrote for Resonance FM.. "In an era of feverish communication, where staying in touch means to be traceable, where the device of communication itself is a tracking device and the networks over which the signal travels are under corporate surveillance, I find merely oppositional resistance an inefficient solution. To not be tracked I shall not give signal. I am for resistance but I am not against this jungle. I am for discovering its layers and the possibilities for recombination. I am not an external. You might find that an integrated position. I will give signal, and work under surveillance; but always in search for back alleys, and grey zones, for failures in the system. Are possibilities shrinking irreversibly or as they close up other dimensions open elsewhere?" (if u want to read more: http://virtualfirefly.wordpress.com/virtual-fireflies/) >From Turbulence: "KeyTweeter is a performance of data nudism based on a Twitter account interfaced with a keylogger. Keyloggers are applications generally used by identity thieves to record everything that is typed on a keyboard in order to gather sensitive information and passwords. In this case the software is tweaked to broadcast everything except the passwords. Kyle McDonald’s Twitter profile is a wild stream of consciousness that reflects the frenetic multitasking activity of the author: you can spot fragments of code belonging to projects he’s currently working on (exposing himself to plagiarism?), personal communications (publishing information about friends that are not meant to be known?) and even errors and corrections, paradoxically putting the twitter-voyeur in a position of broader awareness than the recipient of the email or instant message. Possibly imagining a world of absolute transparency, the artist makes the source code available with instructions on how to set up your own KeyTweeter." -- Olga http://www.ungravitational.net http://virtualfirefly.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
