executing tasks: spam as automated agents
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28 Mar, 2017 @ Aarhus University Winnie Soon | siusoon.net
Execu?ng Tasks: Spam as Automated Agents
What is par?cipa?on?
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What is par?cipa?on?
Google image search as of 22 Mar 2017
the ac?on of taking part in something Involvement | taking part | engagement | contribu?on …
[W]hat was trash becomes things, what was an instrument becomes a par?cipant, what was foodstuff becomes agent, what was adaman?ne becomes intensity. We see how an animal, plant, mineral, or ar?fact can some?mes catalyze a public, and we might then see how to devise more effec?ve [experimental] tac?cs…
(BenneU 2010, p. 107)
an actant is a source of ac?on that can be either human or nonhuman; it is that which has efficacy, can do things, has sufficient coherence to make a difference, produce effects, alter course of events.
(BenneU 2010, p. viii)
SPAM Email
Sent by Gary Thuerk, a marketer for the Digital Equipment Corpora?on, in 1978
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The term spamming was applied to a few different behaviours. One was to flood the computer with too much data in order to crash it. Another was to “spam the database” by having a program create a huge number of objects, rather than crea?ng them by hand.
(Templeton, n.d)
Digital Consump?on
Spam Produc?on
Muta?ng iden??es
[SITE OF YOU] Hey I like your page, but you have no control! Hi, my name is Yvonne and I'm the webmaster of “Crack the Code." It’s is open to all and is fun way to substan?al money. This is Yvonne Zain Bin Abidin. Let’s collaborate together. I made this to help.
[JUST RENT THE DATA] Can it forensic? The apple is too full? Carrier loca?ons arise from what? When was it sent? Which encrypted customers? IQ's up the what? Configure this. Just rent the data.
(Berry 2011:17)
“We wander around the network, seamlessly and mindlessly, and you wanted to trash us, but we are s?ll everywhere. We are just the children of your economic and social system, but you ignore and avoid us. We are not dead, we write, we create.”
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Receiving…
Computer code is not solely technical though, and must be understood with respect to both the 'cultures of souware' that produce it, but also the cultures of consump?on that surround it
(Berry 2011:17)
(Berry 2011:17)
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Souware Art Prac?ce: -‐ Make inquiries -‐ Express crea?ve thoughts -‐ Perform interven?on -‐ See/imagine phenomena in new ways -‐ Invite unfinished thinking -‐ Inform academic wri?ng -‐ Cons?tute research outcome
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Ar?s?c prac?ce is not only the result of the research, but also its methodological vehicle, when the research unfolds in and through the acts of crea?ng and performing.
(Borgdorff 2011, p. 46)
Opportuni?es: -‐ How to inves?gate infrastructure/technical systems? -‐ How may we understand cultural system via reading/wri?ng code? -‐ As an artwork, how to get a balance of control and make sense of
the use of language?
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