Sometimes the online world reveals unsuspected parallel dimensions. This is an unknown restyle of Neural independently (and secretly as we never knew about it) made by NY-based Motion and Graphic Designer, Clarke Blackham. Very nicely made, perhaps only a bit glossier for the magazine’s line, it testifies once more how even your most familiar outcomes can have another life somewhere else.
Tag Archives: hacktivism
McIlwain, Charlton D. – Black Software: The Internet and Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter.

Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 978-0190863845, English, 272 pages, 2019, USA
You won’t open the black box and find a simple ‘if statement’ that reads: ‘if this is a person of colour; then discriminate;’. Similarly, →
Capture, facial recognising the power

In keeping with his tradition of scraping of controversial data, in “Capture” Paolo Cirio has used a series of 1,000 photographs shot during the wave of protests in France, to isolate 4,000 policeman through a Facial Recognition algorithm. This database →
Not For You, systematic TikTok confusion

Ben Grosser’s artworks centre on the technical sabotage of social media processes, namely the disruption of the metrics and quantification systems on which the platform’s business models are based. His most recent work “Not For You” is an “automated confusion →
Collapse OS, post-apocalypse software

In dystopian times, with multiple perspectives of future catastrophes being announced every now and then, a question often arises: on what OS will we run our devices in the post-apocalypse? “Collapse OS” by Virgil Dupras seems to properly →
Artificial Arcadia, integrating and contrasting the ecological tragedy

Although the Swiss landscapes are known throughout the world for their uncontaminated beauty, in reality they are supported by artificial infrastructures that have shaped these natural environments for decades: dams, tunnels, protection nets, irrigation systems, snow cannons and many other →
White Collar Crime Risk Zones, predicting middle class criminality

Similar to what Philip Dick told us in 1956, in Minority Report, our ‘smart cities’ are now trying to become “safe cities”. There are a lot of IT companies already working with the various military forces, creating mapping systems that →
Tommaso Tozzi – Le radici dell’HACKTIVISM in Italia, 1969-1989 Dallo sbarco sulla luna alla caduta del muro di Berlino

Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, Italian, 600 pages, 2019, Italy
There is a body of early work from early activists, sociologists and philosophers who engaged with the sociotechnical impact of information technology just →
Michael Goddard – Guerrilla Networks: An Anarchaeology of 1970s Radical Media Ecologies

Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 978-9089648891, English, 358 pages, 2018, The Netherlands
“Why the 1970s”? This central question relates to the radical and comparatively significant production of underground social movements and media in that particular →
Nick Dyer-Witheford, Svitlana Matviyenko – Cyberwar and Revolution: Digital Subterfuge in Global Capitalism

Univ. Of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13978-1517904111, English, 232 pages, 2019 USA
In the utopian phase of the early commercial Internet, it would have been hard to predict the current scale of online conflicts. Within the →
Inflated Fiction, feminism discoverable under the skin

As Arvida Byström deatils, ‘to inflate’ means to make something that takes up little space occupy a much bigger space. Her “Inflated Fiction” performance at the opening of her exhibition at Stockholm’s Fotografiska consisted of the implementation of 30 NFC →