That's really nice. On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Olga<[email protected]> wrote: > 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 outdated..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 >
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