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(failure & art) as var form of hacking
hacking as appropriation
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diff w dig art → not the front end, but undercurrents, the layers behind, the source code.
it is breaking and entering of sth that by code of politics/economics is declared closed – just as an artwork in regard to archiving and to the art market – as an entity of value – is declared closed
→ faking scarcity
techniques of ripping open, modification, hacking, signal processing, de-/reconstruction of code, transcoding often referred to as
creative abuse
infers planned way of using && that system is meant to remain closed → politics of protocol, not necessity
suorce coed as materila
JODI
JODI
seemed that media art was all about progress: 90s net.art category @ prix ars electronica was at
some point subdivided into net excellence and net vision, one stressing on the artistic, one on the crafts component of the genre
from the beginning JODI focused on something else: the systems behind, their breaking points. they ran with and counter current developments.
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“Whether ritualized or not, art contains the rationality of
negation. In its advanced positions, it is the Great Refusal – the protest against that which is. The modes
in which men and things are made to appear, to sing and sound and speak, are modes of refuting, breaking, and recreating their factual existence.”
Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man
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protest against that which is
→ creating that which is not (meant to be) = errorrrr
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this approach “is critical and ironic, disrespectful and deconstructivist. The artists do not take technological dispositives for granted, but rather manipulate and abuse, circumvent and modify”
Tilman BaUmgärtel
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tilman baumgärtelcustomizing / redesigning code as a form of hacking
political dimension
lack of respect for technological givens (Marcuse, Galloway)
driving system towards epic fail
bazon brock "laughing terror"
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not destructive, but deconstructive
doesn't destroy, but create
disrespectful/disbedient
playful
ironic
critical game, language game, wittgenstein, negotiating
meaning → semantically void, made empty
clik cklic clic
“i stare at the glitch as a void of knowledge”
r0sa menkman
hacking exxxpecctations
hacking expectations + automated consumption by alienating spectators from learned meaning
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made “meaningless” on purpose
→ ostranenie as a specific form of language game
ostranenie
Viktor Shklovsky
defamiliarization, “Verfremdungseffekt” (alienation effect → Brecht) live from making known things appear strange, thereby creating confusion in the audience.
confusion bec we become estranged from what sth used to mean, meaning is not negotiated yet
ostranenie
→ “failure” as a temporal, temposurreal, temposensitive form only exists as long as it can escape semantical negotiation
→ failure is a magic creature
post modern post mortem
juxtaposition to technotopia's hysteria of constant progress, i.e. perfection, crystallization, timonds
post modern post mortem
Slavoj i ekŽ ž , “Grimaces of the Real”
monster as subject of Enlightenment → monster as result of Enlightenment
→ romanticism, night tales, uncanny, re-establishment of the Unknown
→ zombies
black (magic) box → sorcerer's apprentice
curiosity, opening up, hacking, releasing the magic within
hacker ethics+aesthetics
fLorian cramerintentional crudeness as an alternative computer aesthetics that in and of itself conforms w “classical philosophical notions of the sublime as the opposite of beauty”
tilman baumgÄrtel “[hacker ethics are] at the core of all creative use and more importantly the creative abuse of computer technology.”
hacking as criticism
as a form of criticism, it shifts “from a second-order reflection on things into a mode of creation”
jusSi parikka, garnet hertz
→ criticism within the medium
{work of} art as process & open system
Umberto Eco Morris Weitz
re-working as a means of preservation
“With wide implications for the media archaeological methodology, the archive is increasingly being rethought not as a spatial place of history, but as a contemporary technological circuit that redistributes temporality in other ways.”
jussi parikka, garnet heRtz
timonds & digital punk
archiving = timond
vs
decision to open up and make visible the scars, surgeries & safety pin mendings has created a digital punk style
after the future
'what if' the future has already happened?
post-futuristic
dystopian in a mad max tradition
worst case scenario art
laughing terror → Bazon Brock