Re: Has net-art lost political significance?

+1 I wanted to contribute that the recent scholarly work of HCI researchers such as Os Keyes et al’s “A Mulching Proposal” and AI researcher Joy Buolamwini et al’s “Gender Shades,” etc., exist in the space of serious research and savvy presentation that contains inherent critiques of their

Re: Has net-art lost political significance?

tredi digitofagico~ estao capturados pela ubiquidade das ferramentas, estao cada vez mais nas ruas, estao de maos dadas com o software livre chorando pitombas, estao germinando apos digeridas :) Em 2019-06-27 07:27, Rachel O' Dwyer escreveu: > What characterises media art interventions in the

Re: Has net-art lost political significance?

Hi Rachel, A bit more detail

Re: Has net-art lost political significance?

Hi everyone, I really appreciate all the replies both on and off the list. I hadn't made a connection between this post and the very popular discussion of net-time and I’m very interested to hear that Transmediale is exploring the persistence of networks. One of the most inspiring books I've

Re: Has net-art lost political significance?

Hello Rachel, I love your questions. Personally, I just submitted my PhD thesis which had some similar research goals. While I love the construct of "the network" and "the exploit" -- I feel they are dated/need revision in today's landscape of platform politics. In addition I think the flat

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Hi Rachel, I've written a contribution to an upcoming Critical Makers Reader for the Institute of Network Cultures that may be of interest. It relates to my PhD artist and activist led research (in final year of write-up) of local authority databases, processes of urban regeneration, and an

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So interesting. I also find this so interesting because in the light of fakeness, Tactical Media is harder, in the sense of the intervention/provocation to response that was done with RTMark/YesMen back in the time I was active. I think that the new Washington Post, after the Times

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Hi Rachel, snip - I’m currently writing about various tactical and activist practices in the wireless space, including artistic interventions, software-defined radio communities who are reverse-engineering, hacking, sniffing and jamming signals, communities and activists who are building communal

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Hi Rachel, I'm not sure it's exactly what you have in mind. But just in case it helps, you could take a look at some of the artists and art activist projects that made up the second day of the Pirate Care conference last week:

Has net-art lost political significance?

What characterises media art interventions in the context of ‘surveillance capitalism’, platforms and the gig economy? Are these practices still meaningful or, as F.A.T. Lab claimed in 2015, have they lost political significance in the face of global platforms? Can we still speak about