Art under Mass Surveillance

Presented at HOPE X (2014), July 18, 2014, 8 p.m. (60 minutes).

!Mediengruppe Bitnik are contemporary artists. In their talk, they will show two examples of their work, illustrating the translation of hacking from the computer field into an artistic practice. Bitnik will show how to hack the opera in ten easy steps and what happens when you send a parcel with a hidden live webcam to Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.

Presenters:

• !Mediengruppe Bitnik
  !Mediengruppe Bitnik live and work in Zurich/London. Using hacking as an artistic strategy, their works recontextualize the familiar to allow for new readings of established structures and mechanisms. Their works formulate fundamental questions concerning contemporary issues and can be seen at http://wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.bitnik.org.

Links:

• http://x.hope.net/schedule.html#artunderma
• https://infocon.org/cons/2600/HOPE X (2014)/[HOPE X] Art under Mass Surveillance.mp4
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elOG01DhD7w

Similar Presentations:

• The Last HOPE (2008) / Dirty New Media: Art, Activism, and Computer Counter Cultures
• 30C3 (2013) / Hacking as Artistic Practice: !Mediengruppe Bitnik about their recent works