Presented at
30C3 (2013),
Dec. 28, 2013, 4:45 p.m.
(30 minutes)
"The Pirate Cinema" reveals Peer-to-Peer information flows. It is a composition generated by the activity on file sharing networks. "The Pirate Cinema" immerses the viewer in network flows.
In the context of omnipresent telecommunications surveillance, “The Pirate Cinema” makes the hidden activity and geography of Peer-to-Peer file sharing visible. The project is presented as a monitoring room, which shows Peer-to-Peer transfers happening in real time on networks using the BitTorrent protocol. The installation produces an arbitrary cut-up of the files currently being exchanged. This immediate and fragmentary rendering of digital activity, with information concerning its source and destination, thus depicts the topology of digital media consumption and uncontrolled content dissemination in a connected world.
Presenters:
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Brendan Howell
Brendan Howell is an artist and a reluctant engineer who has created various software works and interactive electronic inventions.
Brendan Howell was born in Manchester, CT, USA in 1976. He currently lives in Berlin, Germany where he shares a studio with the Weise7 group. He has done research and led courses at the Muthesius Kunsthochschule, Merz Akademie, Fachhochschule Potsdam and the Kunsthochschule Berlin, Weißensee.
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Nicolas Maigret
Nicolas Maigret has been developing media and sound art projects since 2001.
After studying Intermedia arts with a focus in avant-garde theoretical education, Nicolas Maigret joined the laboratory Locus-Sonus in Nice dedicated to networked sound art research. He taught at the Fine Arts School of Bordeaux and is presently involved in an artist run space named Plateforme in Paris.
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