Net Art: Data Hacking, Coding and Critical Thinking

Net Art: Data Hacking, Coding & Cri5cal Thinking

網絡藝術之駭玩數據，編碼及批判性思維

Winnie Soon www.siusoon.com

1.aug.2014

Net Art?

Net Art? + technical /技術

+ distribu5on/分發

+ data/數據

+ culture / 文化

+ knowledge/ 知識

+ freedom & sharing / 自由, 分享

+ produc5on / 生產

+ Poli5cs / 政治

+ Aesthe5cs /美學

分享

分享 #1 China Channel/ 2008

hLp://chinachannel.fffff.at/ | hLp://rhizome.org/editorial/2009/sep/8/china-‐channel-‐2008-‐aram-‐bartholl-‐evan-‐roth-‐and-‐tob/

分享 #2 CANNOT / 2010

分享 #3 CENSORED CENSORSHIP/ 2010

hLp://kimasendorf.com/cccn/

分享 #4 Weiboscope/ 2011-‐

hLp://weiboscope.jmsc.hku.hk/

你的分享

+ technical /技術

+ distribu5on/分發

+ data/數據

+ culture / 文化

+ knowledge/ 知識

+ freedom & sharing / 自由, 分享

+ produc5on / 生產

+ Poli5cs / 政治

+ Aesthe5cs /美學

Hacking?

Hacking?

As of 22 Jun 2014

Hacking?

hLp://www.arthackday.net/about

Hacking? Are you a hacker?

+ White hat / 白帽黑客 + Black hat /黑帽黑客

+ Gray hat / 灰帽黑客

Hacking? HK hacker communities:

Hacking? Hacker:

original: The Jargon File by Raphael Finkel screen cap: Bazzichelli 2008, p.138

Hacking? Are you a hacker?

-‐  Wark, 2001 hLp://www.dvara.net/HK/wark2.asp

"Hackers create the possibility of new things entering the world. Not always great things, or even good things, but new things. In art, in science, in philosophy and culture, in any process of knowledge where data can be gathered, where informa5on can be extracted from it, and where in that informa5on new possibili5es for the world produced, there are hackers hacking the new out of the old.”

Hacking? Concept of Black Box


‘blackboxing’ as “the way scien5fic and technical work is made invisible by its own success. When a machine runs efficiently, when a maLer of fact is seLled, one need focus only on its inputs and outputs and not on its internal complexity. Thus, paradoxically, the more science and technology succeed, the more opaque and obscure they become.”

(Latour 1999, my emphasis)


“Facebook is a black box (Latour, 1999), and therefore it is difficult to examine some of the opaque techniques at the informa5onal level that par5cipate in shaping specific representa5on of users and poli5cal processes.”

(Langlous, Elmer, McKelvey, Dereveaux: 424)

Hacking? Facebook is a black box

hLp://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2013/10/30/facebook-‐considers-‐vast-‐increase-‐in-‐data-‐collec5on/ hLps://www.techdirt.com/ar5cles/20131215/23260825572/facebook-‐is-‐tracking-‐when-‐you-‐write-‐something-‐then-‐decide-‐to-‐delete-‐it-‐rather-‐than-‐post-‐it.shtml

Hacking? Facebook is a black box

戴耀廷 Facebook⼾戶

和平佔中發起⼈人戴耀廷個⼈人facebook帳⼾戶⽇日前疑遭集體舉報，突然被封，事後戴耀廷「上訴」，向facebook提交⾝身份證副本「驗明正⾝身」，但對⽅方指其帳⼾戶名稱內有「Benny（戴耀廷英⽂文名」字樣，但在⾝身份證副本上找不到，上訴不獲受理。今⽇日戴耀廷的後備帳⼾戶終於重開，他利⽤用帳⼾戶開啟⼀一個 facebook專⾴頁，並留⾔言指：「重⾒見天⽇日，有⼀一點唏噓。事情其實還有⼀一點轉折，我之前是連現在⽤用的這個account(帳⼾戶)也給封了，只是上訴成功，感到網絡的『權⼒力』其實也是挺⼤大的。」

hLp://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/real5me/news/20140723/52721389

Hacking? Facebook is a black box #1

hLp://bengrosser.com/projects/facebook-‐demetricator/

Facebook Demetricator / 2012


hLp://www.siusoon.com/home/?p=1062

The Likes of Brother Cream Cat/ 2013


hLp://www.seppukoo.com/

Seppukoo/ 2009


hLps://www.facebook.com/glitchr | hLp://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/glitchr-‐is-‐the-‐most-‐interes5ng-‐ar5st-‐hacker-‐on-‐facebook

“how far I can go beyond the strict constraints of Facebook's layout”

-‐ Laimonas Zakas

Early net art

•  An5-‐art concept – An5-‐ins5tu5onalized – Unable to sell – Difficult to preserve

hLp://wwwwwwwww.jodi.org/

Early net art

•  Medium specificity

“Net art plays with the protocols of the Internet, with its technical peculiari5es” (Baumgartel 2002, p.24)

– Animated gif •  hLp://www.andysowards.com/blog/assets/nyan-‐cat-‐anima5on-‐art.gif?b91b38 •  hLp://www.andysowards.com/blog/assets/too-‐hot-‐need-‐ice-‐cream-‐cat-‐anima5on.gif?b91b38 •  hLp://www.andysowards.com/blog/assets/newspaper-‐flip-‐anima5on-‐photo-‐art.gif?b91b38 •  hLp://www.siusoon.com/projects/projects_mediaart/mao.gif •  hLp://www.siusoon.com/home/?p=976

Aesthe5cs of net art

•  Medium specificity – Narra5ve: Olia: Boyfriend

My Boyfriend Came Back from the War / 1996

hLp://myboyfriendcamebackfromth.ewar.ru/


•  Destabilized and re-‐appropriate informa5on Shredder 1.0 / 1998

hLp://www.potatoland.org/shredder/shredder.html


•  Amazon’s Mechanical Turk –  Labor market –  hLps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Mmb5aSscck

The Sheep Market/ 2006

hLp://www.aaronkoblin.com/work/thesheepmarket/index.html


•  Process-‐oriented –  Interac5vity – Souware’s constant evolu5on •  Form Art (1997)

Form Art/ 1997

hLp://www.c3.hu/collec5on/form/


•  Process-‐oriented –  Interac5vity – dealing with live feed

Listening Post / 2003

hLps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD36IajCz6A


•  Process-‐oriented –  Interac5vity – dealing with live feed

Jsut code/ 2010 -‐ 2012

hLps://vimeo.com/90781011

Network poli5cs

•  “The technical is always poli5cal, the network architecture is poli5cs” (Galloway 2004, p.254) – Street Ghost (2012) by Paolo Cirio

hLp://youtu.be/JBcoQm9VGqc?list=PLJHWosFmMRqqGaTfKpoevnglyd2LLvMdy

Network poli5cs

•  “The technical is always poli5cal, the network architecture is poli5cs” (Galloway 2004, p.254) – Forgot your password (2013) by Aram Bartholl

hLp://datenform.de/forgot-‐your-‐password.html

Network poli5cs

•  “The technical is always poli5cal, the network architecture is poli5cs” (Galloway 2004, p.254) – Dead Drops (2010) by Aram Bartholl


Appendix

HK-based artists

Hong Kong / 香港

•  Henry Chu / 朱力行

股市聲動/ 1996

hLps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-‐Wsx79eGrnI

Hong Kong / 香港

•  Teddy Lo / 羅揚文

The Constant – black or white / 2009

Shades Dynamisms / 2011

hLps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgcUP_X2RQQ

Hong Kong / 香港

•  Francis Lam / 林昇源

hLp://db-‐db.com/porzolio/index2.html

Hong Kong / 香港

•  Keith Lam / 林欣傑

One Day Social Sculpture / 2013

Signal Morphor / 2011

hLp://keithlyk.net/project/sculpture/

hLp://keithlyk.net/project/signal-‐morphor/

Hong Kong / 香港

•  Ip Yuk Yiu/ Meta Data / 2009


Hong Kong / 香港

•  Daniel Howe

hLp://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/

TrackMeNot/ 2006

Hong Kong / 香港

•  Marco De Mu5is Threads of Desire/ 2011

hLp://www.marcodemu5is.com/threadsofdesire

Hong Kong / 香港

•  Audrey Samson

Digital Data Funeral (forth coming)

hLp://deathimagina5onlab.com/installa5on.html

Threads / 2010

hLp://threads.ideacri5k.com/

Hong Kong / 香港

•  Wri5ng Machine Collec5ve_e5 | 11-‐25 Oct, 2014 •  TRACING DATA: What you Read is Not What we Write 《讀寫靈機 : 唧唧復唧唧》

Img ref

•  hLp://allthingsd.com/files/2012/12/social_network_abstract.png •  hLp://photos-‐c.ak.|cdn.net/hphotos-‐ak-‐xfp1/t1.0-‐0/

p200x200/10441526_10152468351233351_4464844593977282725_n.jpg •  hLp://cdn.poweredbysearch.com/wp-‐content/uploads/2013/07/Grey-‐Hat.png •  hLp://inews.mingpao.com/up/INews2/20100825/00825plane4.jpg •  hLp://worldinfo4u.com/wp-‐content/uploads/2014/02/black-‐box-‐theory_3515.jpg •  hLp://www.privatewifi.com/wp-‐content/uploads/2013/12/unnamed.png •  hLp://soshable.com/wp-‐content/uploads/2013/10/Facebook-‐Cursor-‐Tracking.jpg

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