Thursday, 27 February 2014

Class notes

Tactical Media
uni dimensional media like radio TV and the web first popularized in Europe

Ricardo Domingez and the Electronic Disturbance Theater

Floodnet = Virtual sit ins
> use of digital media for online/electronic desobedience acts
> virtual sit ins: people gather virtually/on the net/protest through the Floodnet software

 members of electronic disturbance theater: Ricardo, Carmen, Bret, Stephen

How does flood net work?
Software that rapidetely reload a website/server targetted causing problems to server and stopping access to it

Does it damage anything?
No

How does it differ from a bot?
doesn't takes over control of user's computer without permission what is its purpose cause distrubance, raise awareness and cause annoyness

Is Flood net art? what type? interactive? when did it take place?
Yes. Internet Performance Art. Yes it is interactive. In 1998.

The Institute for Applied Autonomy 


activist group which focused on dissemination of knowledge, autonomy, and methods of self-determination > through artistic expression & application of military-like technology > topics of Criminal Mischief, decentralized systems and individual autonomy

i-See: a decentralized CCTV map distribution software containing user-generated data

TXTMob: a registration system for cell phones to allow protest groups rapid & anonymous communication.

The Yes Men

Cultural jamming duo
Operate under the mission statement of lies and exposing truth.

> make satire websites
> Elaborate props are sometimes part of the ruse
>impersonate entities that they dislike, a practice that they call "identity correction"

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