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Table of Contents: AHA: Activism-Hacking-Artvism Alessandro Ludovico <a.ludovico@neural.it> p l a y g r o u n d - call for entries garage <info@garage-g.de> COCO FUSCO'S VIDEO WORK AT ARCO IN MADRID TONGOLELE@aol.com a challenge Bill Spornitz <spornitz@mts.net> 2001 Turing Award geert <geert@xs4all.nl> supervideo (G8) genua geert <geert@xs4all.nl> Herbert Marcuse Website launch "Herbert Marcuse Assoziation" <herbert_marcuse_assoziation@hotmail.com> untitled wladimir + [ Cadavres Exqu!s ]results03 + Fake4silence #1 +map / 54 jimpunk <jim@jimpunk.com> Announcement: Nominations for the Dutch Big Brother Awards 2002 Big Brother Awards Nederland <info@bigbrotherawards.nl> ***PROJECT ENDURING LOOK: call for slides & short videos*** Mary Patten <mpatte@artic.edu> [NICE] x-i.net stolen (fwd) Jaanis Garancs <jg@x-i.net> Trigger Words #2 (a Carnivore Client) RSG <rsg@rhizome.org> ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 12:19:05 +0100 From: Alessandro Ludovico <a.ludovico@neural.it> Subject: AHA: Activism-Hacking-Artvism From: "T_Bazz" <t.bazzichelli@mclink.it> AHA: Activism-Hacking-Artvism making art doing multimedia Exhibition-Event on media Activism On 8th February the Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea of the University of Rome "La Sapienza" inaugurates AHA: Activism-Hacking-Artvism an exhibition organized by Tatiana Bazzichelli (www.strano.net/bazzichelli). The main concepts of AHA, making art doing multimedia, are Activism = political activism, Hacking = technological activism, Artivism = artistic activism. AHA evidences a collective path, as result of a movement that from the beginning of the Eighties struggles for an independent and self-managed use of mass-media (video, computer, radio and written text) and today more than ever, it is demonstrating to be one of the most valid alternatives to the official information. AHA is born as a thought consequent to the demostrations of July against the G8 Summit of Genoa: territory not only of hard clashes, repression and violence, as most of the mass-media have evidenced, but also an important experience for whom constructs information from the base, with amatorial cameras, movement websites, independent radio networks. But AHA is also a thinking on artistic experimentation that uses the digital technology in its more vital manifestations, necessarily incarnating the attitude of he critical and self-managed use of mass-media. No more art-works but processes, no more originality but reproducibility, no more rappresentation of a unique genius but a collective action, example of a creative skill that -inserted in a museum- opens the doors and walls. The aim of AHA is to create a network inside the MLAC, integrating with videos, with LANS with radios and with witten texts. A network composed of independent groups and single activists who act in the mediatic, technological and artistic field. To name a few: Isole nella Rete, Indymedia Italia, Radio GAP, Strano Network, Tactical Media Crew, Candida TV, Netstrike.it, AvANa.net, Autistici/Inventati, copyDOWN, Dyne.org, all the Italian hacker movement, the artists and activists Giacomo Verde, Tommaso Tozzi, the GMM (Giovanotti Mondani Meccanici), Massimo Contrasto, Federico Bucalossi, Claudio Parrini, Ferry Byte, Arclele, Mariano Equizzi (in coproduction with Luca Liggio and the INTERACT), the theatre company Neguvon and the well known mature magazines Decoder and Neural. Tatiana Bazzichelli, communication sociologist, multimedia designer and organizer of events/workshops on digital art, has been engaged for a long time in carrying ahead a concept of real practical art inside of the collective AvANa.net and in collaboration with the group Strano Network. The exhibition, that starts from 8th February until 1st March, is part of the exposition series "Laboratorio" proposed within the Dottorato di Ricerca in "Borderart" and within the experimental Stages/Masters of Cura Critica and Installation Museale, commissioned by the director of the Museum, Simonetta Lux, and realized by the organiser of the MLAC Domenico Scudero. Opening times: monday - friday 10-20 Info: mslab@uniroma1.it tel./ fax 06 4991 0365. More about AHA on: http://www.strano.net/bazzichelli/aha_project.htm - -- Alessandro Ludovico Neural Online - http://www.neural.it/ daily updated news + reviews Suoni Futuri Digitali - http://www.apogeonline.com/catalogo/614.html ISBN 88-7303-614-7 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 18:11:27 +0100 From: garage <info@garage-g.de> Subject: p l a y g r o u n d - call for entries german version below. sorry for any cross-postings. please feel free to forward. Call for Entries -------------------------- 6th Festival "garage" 2002 - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - ------------------------------------- August 2002 in Stralsund/Germany - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - ----------------------------------------------------------- playground Play: is an activity (of animals and humans). It is done without conscious purpose and out of enjoyment of the activity and of its accomplishment. The play of humans can be understood as a, by various factors determined behavior, which takes on a substantial role as mediator between the individual and society, and which is indispensable in every period of life. garage 2002 is searching for artists' concepts and positions on the discussion of the principles and mechanisms of games. Play with conventions, techniques of play, game as a model for solving concrete problems, game as a manipulation of perception, game as critical reflection, game as game. The public space as playground. Trespassing borders and networked playing. Mobile playing and mobile thinking. Who defines the rules? Are you ready to play? >> The fesitval will present 3 weeks of exhibitions, concerts, discussions, film screenings, workshops, which can be summarized under three main topics. Wanted are works or proposals for projects: > off-line or the mechanics of games (toys. playing techniques. game >as interaction.) > on-line or plug and play (computer games. digitial media. playing >in networks.) > cross-line or the public space as playground (play as a strategy >for action. play as experimentation. trespassing of borders.) - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- garage is platform for art and culture. It is situated in the midst of the silo area in Stralsund's old port and understands itself as a non-commercial, temporally limited space for the suppport of inter-disciplinary and individual projects with a focus on art, film and music. Deadline will be April 30th, 2002. Please, send your ideas, suggestions, material formless to: garage c/o Stabenow Husemannstr. 12 10435 Berlin Germany Questions? +49 (0) 30 441 20 15 info@garage-g.de http://www.garage-g.de Ausschreibung -------------------------------- 6. Festival garage 2002 - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - ------------------------------------- August 2002 in Stralsund/Germany - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - ----------------------------------------------------------- playground >spielfeld / playground Spiel: Taetigkeit (von Tier und Mensch), die ohne bewussten Zweck, aus Vergnuegen an der Taetigkeit als solcher bzw. an ihrem Gelingen vollzogen wird. Das Spiel des Menschen wird als ein durch unterschiedlichste Faktoren bestimmtes Verhalten verstanden, das im Wechselverhältnis zwischen Individuum und Gesellschaft eine wesentliche Vermittlerrolle einnimmt und in jeder Lebensperiode unentbehrlich ist. garage 2002 sucht nach Ansaetzen und Positionen zur kuenstlerischen Auseinandersetzung mit den Prinzipien und Mechanismen des Spiels. Spiel mit Konventionen, Spieltechniken, Spiel als Loesungsmodell konkreter Problematiken, Spiel als Manipulation von Wahrnehmung, Spiel als kritische Reflexion, Spiel als Spiel. Grenzueberschreitungen und vernetztes Spielen. Mobiles Spielen und mobiles Denken. Wer definiert die Spielregeln? Are you ready to play? >> Das Festival wird 3 Wochen lang Ausstellungen, Konzerte, Vortraege, Filmscreenings, Workshops praesentieren, die unter drei Hauptschwerpunkten zusammengefasst werden. Gesucht sind Arbeiten und Projektvorschlaege zu: > off-line oder Die Mechanik des Spiels (Spielgeraete. Spieltechnik. >Spiel als Interaktion.) > on-line oder plug and play (Computerspiele. Digitale Medien. >Spielen in Netzwerken.) > cross-line oder Der oeffentliche Raum als Spielfeld (Spiel als >Handlungsstrategie. Spiel als Experiment. Grenzueberschreitungen.) - ------------------------------------------------------------------- garage ist Plattform fuer Kunst und Kultur. Sie ist gelegen inmitten der Hafen- und Speicherstadt Stralsunds und versteht sich als zeitlich begrenzter Raum für die Foerderung interdisziplinaerer sowie einzelkuenstlerischer Projekte mit den Schwerpunkten bildende Kunst, Musik und Film. Einsendeschluss für Material und Vorschlaege ist der 30.4.02 Ideen, Vorschlaege und Material bitte formlos an: garage c/o Stabenow Husemannstr. 12 10435 Berlin Germany Fragen? +49 (0) 30 441 20 15 info@garage-g.de http://www.garage-g.de ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 09:19:22 EST From: TONGOLELE@aol.com Subject: COCO FUSCO'S VIDEO WORK AT ARCO IN MADRID Coco Fusco's video ELS SEGADORS (The Reapers), will be featured at the ARCO Art Fair Project Rooms in Madrid, from February 14 - 18. ARCO will be held at the Juan Carlos Exhibition Center, in the Campo de las Naciones Complex. For more information, please refer to: www.arco-online.ua.es/ing/formularios/visitantes_ing.htm Fusco is being represented at ARCO by The Project, New York In her essay on Fusco's video, critic and poet Ana Nuño writes: "History is the subject of a structure whose site is not homogeneous, empty time, but time filled by the presence of the now", noted down Walter Benjamin in "On the Concept of History", one the last essays this Jewish German philosopher wrote before committing suicide, panic-stricken at the thought that the Spanish Guardia Civil could hand him over to the German Nazi police officers. This happened 61 years ago in the little town of Port-Bou, the first or the last (depending on one's point of view) Catalan town along the coast border with France. When Coco Fusco came to Catalunya in June 1999... she understood that one of those burning historical issues which infuses and informs the present was, for Catalans, national identity. It was then that she first struck on the idea of doing video work on this particular subject, focusing on one of its emblems -Catalunya's national anthem. ...Coco Fusco's work, faithful to what Benjamin thought of as the historian's task, fills one of Europe's most ancient ghosts -the nightmarish dream of a homogeneous, ideally eternal, unaltered cultural essence- with the invigorating "presence of the now". At a time when Europe must either accept the "other" cultures which live in its soil, or condemn itself to sing old vengeful patriotic anthems. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 08:00:21 -0600 From: Bill Spornitz <spornitz@mts.net> Subject: a challenge I think this challenge may call for some art.code and a net.artist or two, no? b http://www.google.com/programming-contest/ First Annual Google Programming Contest In celebration of more than three years of delivering the best search experience on the Internet, Google is sponsoring the first annual Google Programming Contest. Grand Prize * $10,000 in cash * VIP visit to Google Inc. in Mountain View, California * Potentially run your prize-winning code on Google's multi-billion document repository (circumstances permitting) The Challenge Google is providing a selection of about 900,000 web pages in pre-parsed and raw format, together with a "ripper" program that provides a framework for processing the pre-parsed data. Your mission is to write a program (most likely by adding code to the ripper) that does something interesting with the data, in such a way that it would scale to a web-sized collection of documents. Part of your job is to convince us of why your program is interesting and why it will scale; other than that, you're free to implement whatever strikes your fancy... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 07:04:45 +1100 From: geert <geert@xs4all.nl> Subject: 2001 Turing Award From: "Gary Chapman" <gary.chapman@mail.utexas.edu> Dear friends, I'm happy to pass on the news that the 2001 Turing Award, the highest award in computer science, has been awarded to Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard of Norway, for their invention of object-oriented programming, the most widely used programming paradigm in the world today. The formal citation of the award is on the Web at http://www.acm.org/announcements/turing_2001.html. The Association for Computing Machinery will present the A.M. Turing Award, its most prestigious technical honor, at the annual ACM Awards Banquet on April 27, 2002, at the University of Toronto in Canada. It has been my privilege and honor to serve on the selection committee for the Turing Award, in a group of five people, and I am particularly pleased by this year's award. Congratulations, Kristen! Best to all, - -- Gary Gary Chapman LBJ School of Public Affairs University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX gary.chapman@mail.utexas.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 07:38:21 +1100 From: geert <geert@xs4all.nl> Subject: supervideo (G8) genua http://candida.kyuzz.org/newsNOfram.html On February 9 the video documentary Supervideo about Genua (G8) will be released. The film is produced by Candidatv. Supervideo is a 36min long video about what happened in Genova during the days of the G8 and as we thought that history cannot be written by only one pen.After a conctact with the Ghost of the Free Voice. SuperVideo, "mutant" hero of free communication, looks for the truth collecting togheter the voices of people met during the journey that will bring him to Genoa in the days of the G8>>>>You'll have to help communication to set itself free! Super Video collects informations, snatchs signals, records choruses....and he has got an important missionl: to deliver a special tape to the "big of the world" ... >>>all the frequencies are under control... >>>we are in danger! If you would like to order the video throughout the web you can go to our website and look under news at www.Candida.kyuzz.org Candidatv, prendila prima di uscire. Candida nasce dall'incontro di una decina tra giovani autrici, registi, tecniche, appassionati e appassionate ricercatrici dell potenzialità ancora inespresse dei linguaggio audiovisivo. L'occasione si presenta nel 1999, quando l'emittente locale Teleambiente (uhf 68) mette a nostra disposizione uno spazio di un'ora a settimana. Era l'inizio di CandidaTV, un contenitore di prima serata, in onda per 9 settimane, da dicembre '99 a febbraio '00. Il programma si articolava in diverse rubriche su tematiche giovanili, dalla musica all'animazione, dai problemi del carcere ai nuovi linguaggi dell'informatica e della cultura. Ogni rubrica veniva lanciata da uno studio "domestico", un'improbabile cucina dove tre presentatori (un ragazzo e due ragazze) connettevano i vari temi con ritmi incalzanti. Presenze bizzarre talvolta invadevano lo studio, chi per illustrare con orgoglio le forme di vecchi elettrodomestici, chi per coadiuvare i presentatori nel lancio del servizio successivo. Era la tv elettrodomestica, una televisione in cui i codici e i temi trattati rispondevano a un preciso intento di ricongiungere la spaccatura, talvolta troppo estraniante, tra pubblico e televisione generalista. Insomma una televisione low fi, per una comunicazione di qualità. Candida group, fatti di etere In quell'occasione prese corpo un gruppo produttivo affiatato, che negli anni ha dato vita a un giornalismo curioso e impertinente e che, d'altro canto, non ha abbandonato la ricerca sulle simulazioni visuali, piccole fiction e caricature su temi di attualità. Queste produzioni, fra l'informazione, la simulazione e l'infotainment, hanno suscitato l'interesse di alcuni importanti organi di comunicazione: quotidiani (Repubblica, Messagero, Manifesto, Metro), televisioni (RAI1, RAI3, RAISAT), riviste specializzate, (Filmaker), agenzie on-line (AGI). La realizzazione dello spot ufficiale della ROBE di KAPPA per i campionati Europei di calcio Under 21 ha avuto notevoli consensi di critica, e ha partecipato, nella sezione dedicata agli spot pubblicitari, all'edizione del 2001 del festival di Cannes. Candida live, il tuo filo intermentale Ma Candida è anche un gruppo di videoinstallatori. Se la tv ha ucciso le piazze, sarà forse il caso di tornare sul luogo del delitto? Nell'agosto del 1998 il Napoli Stritt Festival, ci invitava a esibirci nei vicoli dei quartieri spagnoli. Per tre sere una piazza fu animata da un'installazione video interattiva, con una regia volante che permetteva la gestione di un palinsesto continuamente ridefinito dalla partecipazione del pubblico. Dopo quell'esperienza Candida ha continuato a occuparsi con successo della realizzazione di video-live set, video-installazioni e e della creazione di eventi multimediali. Nel 2000, a Roma (quartieri Torre Maura e Torre Spaccata) ha visto la luce Torre Maura TV in collaborazione con il Laboratorio di Cultura Urbana Godzilla (Leg. 285). Un laboratorio di videomaking di base dedicato ai giovani di quartiere. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 03:03:05 +0100 From: "Herbert Marcuse Assoziation" <herbert_marcuse_assoziation@hotmail.com> Subject: Herbert Marcuse Website launch Herbert Marcuse Archive=20 http://cartoon.iguw.tuwien.ac.at/christian/marcuse/ maintained by the Herbert Marcuse Association In the Information Age, the conditions for Critical Theories of Society = have changed. With this Web Site we are trying to supply material on the = topicality of Herbert Marcuse's critical thinking in this changing, but = still capitalist world as well as digital versions of some works of = Marcuse.=20 If you want to be added to our news list send us an e-mail with the = subject subscribe=20 herbert_marcuse_assoziation@hotmail.com This news-list is sent out irregularly, you won't be bothered by long, = daily mails. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 11:40:44 +0100 From: jimpunk <jim@jimpunk.com> Subject: untitled wladimir + [ Cadavres Exqu!s ]results03 + Fake4silence #1 +map / 54 Fake4silence #1 http://www.jimpunk.com/project/_/ untitled wladimir http://www.jimpunk.com/project/wladimir/ map / 54 http://www.jimpunk.com/map/ [ Cadavres Exqu!s ] www.jimpunk.com/j.a.d/ICE/ results03 http://www.jimpunk.com/j.a.d/ICE/results.html ___________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ___________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ 01101010011010010110110101110000011101010110111001101011 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 12:11:25 +0100 From: Big Brother Awards Nederland <info@bigbrotherawards.nl> Subject: Announcement: Nominations for the Dutch Big Brother Awards 2002 Nominations for the Dutch Big Brother Awards 2002 - ------------------------------------------------- Government agencies and private companies are increasingly violating the privacy of people everywhere. Enormous amounts of personal data are being collected, stored and processed - often illegally - in the pursuit of more efficient marketing, greater social control, and more powerful mechanisms for monitoring of the citizen. Every year Privacy International and a growing number of affiliate human rights groups present the Big Brother Awards to government agencies, private companies and individuals who have excelled in the violation of our privacy. The juries worldwide consist of lawyers, academics, consultants, journalists, civil right activists. The first Dutch Big Brother Awards will be held in Amsterdam on the 15th of February. Today the jury announces the nominations in four categories: government, companies, persons and proposals. In every category one winner will be awarded with an 'Orwell'. The Dutch Big Brother Awards are organised by Bits of Freedom, a privacy and civil liberties organisation based in Amsterdam. Government - - The Royal wedding between Willem-Alexander and Maxima for security screening of 50.000 people of which 18.000 were entered into a database - - The National Institute of Public Health and Environment for storing identifiable blood samples of 1,4 million children without parent consent - - The Public Prosecution Service for wiretapping phone calls between lawyers and their clients Companies - - Spamming company abfab for spamming email and collecting email addresses from webpages and newsgroups - - The Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) for the development of the Automatic Aggression Detection video processing software which was demonstrated by TNO using video footage of the uprising against Milosevic in Belgrade. - - Peer-to-peer technology company Kazaa for delivering spyware to the users of their software Persons - - The Minister for Urban Policy and Integration of Ethnic minorities Roger van Boxtel for promotion of compulsory identification and the use biometric technology - - The State Secretary of Transport, Public Works and Water Management Monique de Vries for breaking open an EU compromise on data retention for telecommunication companies - - Member of Parliament Joop Wijn for promoting a national database of fingerprints for all inhabitants of the Netherlands Proposals - - The Government compulsory key escrow plans for Trusted Third Parties, which undermine the security and confidentially of electronic communications - - The Intelligence and Security Services Act for giving unprecedented interception possibilities to the National Security Service - - The Commission Mevis for proposing far-reaching demands on banks, insurance companies and telecommunication companies to track, store and disclose customer data to law enforcement For more information: http://www.bigbrotherawards.nl/ - ------------------- Contact: Maurice Wessling info@bigbrotherawards.nl ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 11:50:15 -0700 From: Mary Patten <mpatte@artic.edu> Subject: ***PROJECT ENDURING LOOK: call for slides & short videos*** PROJECT ENDURING LOOK: open call for 35mm slides, photographs, "found" photo-based images, and short (1-10 minute) videos (***SEE SPECS BELOW). "The war isn't over, but already Pentagon and intelligence agency teams are going to Afghanistan for a post-mortem on U.S. weapons and tactics. The Air Force has launched a similar effort, code-named "Enduring Look." - -- WILLIAM M. ARKIN, Special Correspondent, LA Times, January 16, 2002 PROJECT ENDURING LOOK, which will run from Feb. 15-Feb. 24 at the 1926 Exhibition Studies Space of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, will involve students, faculty, and staff, along with other artists, performers, community organizers, writers, and academics in a series of ephemeral events, projects, and gatherings which address the role of culture "during wartime." Specifically, the project will investigate shifts in rhetoric and public feelings over the past 6 months in the U.S., and the real and perceived narrowing of what is deemed "appropriate" and "acceptable" expressions of politics, emotions, and critical thought in a period of crisis and confusion. Through a building series of projections, performances, film and video screenings, actions, and exchanges, PROJECT ENDURING LOOK will both include and exceed the limits of agit-prop by embodying grief, empathy, and contradiction. We will extend the boundaries of permissible speech and action as we mix up art audiences and community organizers, peace activists with radical academics. We aim to engender productive exchanges, characterized by openness, energetic critique, and solidarity. Given that the 1926 space is a house - the former residence of artist Roger Brown - PROJECT ENDURING LOOK will use the literal and metaphorical meanings of "house." The project will begin quietly, almost mutely. For the first several days, the house will be closed, the interior "blacked out." Slide and video projections will fill the front windows and project onto the street. As the ten days of the project proceed, the house will open up little by little, culminating in a busy and multi-faceted "Open house/Safe House" on the closing days and nights. ***SPECIFICS: we are looking for: 1. Vertical slides (or images that can be easily scanned to be made into vertical slides) for a silent, continuous, dual-projection installation. We are looking for images of the insides of abandoned homes and public buildings, or their remnants, destroyed or worn away by "natural disasters," acts of war, or history. The images may be ambiguous as to location and time. 2. Horizontal slides (or images that can be easily scanned to be made into horizontal slides) for a silent, continuous, dual-projection installation. These images should be based on the idea of "landscape" in war or crisis, broadly interpreted beyond the landscapes of e.g. Afghanistan or New York City. Please do not send over-saturated/exhausted images (e.g., no twin towers on fire). 3. Short, ambient videos (image or text-based) on the project's themes for a looped rear-projection video installation. 4. Short videos for a looped monitor presentation, which reference, appropriate, or "talk back" to TV and media footage/images from "the new war" and current crisis. ***FORMATS: 35 mm slides or JPEGS on ZIP disk. PLEASE do not send attachments unless you get an email OK from us first. Ephemera and print material OK as long as images fit within the vertical or horizontal proportions for a 35mm slide. ***Videos must be under 10 minutes (1-5 minutes PREFERRED), NTSC, VHS. Please send in bubble-wrap, NOT fiber-filled envelopes. ***EXCRUCIATING DEADLINE: ASAP, or, at the latest by Feb. 11, 2002*** Please send a SASE if you'd like your materials returned. All material included will be credited/acknowledged to the artist/lender/participant in printed material at the site. Thanks! we look forward to your contributions. SEND MATERIAL TO: Mary Patten Film/Video/New Media Department School of the Art Institute of Chicago 112 South Michigan, #308 Chicago, Illinois 60603 usa email: mpatte@artic.edu Mary Patten Film/Video/New Media Department School of the Art Institute of Chicago 112 South Michigan, #308 Chicago, Illinois 60603 office: 001.312.345.3684 fax: 001.312.541.8070 home/studio: 001.773.275.1526 email: mpatte@artic.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 19:30:17 +0200 (EET) From: Jaanis Garancs <jg@x-i.net> Subject: [NICE] x-i.net stolen (fwd) can anybody help us to get our domain name back? we can prove thet we have been using it since 1997 andi it has been used by several organisations and networks, and at least several hundred individuals. please reply to jg@khm.de jaanis garancs (owner of the x-i.net) - -- mailto:jg@x-i.net tel: +49 (0)221 20189-169 http://www.khm.de/~jg gsm: +49 (0)173 454 66 00 c/o KHM, Am Malzbuechel 2, 50676 Cologne (Köln), Germany - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 18:04:55 +0200 From: Rasa Smite <rasa@re-lab.net> To: nice@x-i.net Subject: [NICE] x-i.net stolen hello nice within the next few days there might be problems with mailinglist and nice website as it seems that domain name x-i.net is stolen nameservers in latvia still are recognizing this domain today but most likely tomorrow it will be gone jaanis is trying to figure out what and how has happened but it seems that there are so many domain name selling companies on the net, that they are monitoring when existing domains expire, and within the same milisecond they are re-registering = steeling those expired domains last year it happened with Locomotive project borderland.org (now this project is running on new domain - borderland.tv ) we will save the list of nice subscribers, and will make new nice list on other domain name, if we will not get back x-i.net bye, rasa _______________________________________________ NICE mailing list NICE@x-i.net http://nice.x-i.net ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 16:06:17 -0500 From: RSG <rsg@rhizome.org> Subject: Trigger Words #2 (a Carnivore Client) During the weekend of February 1st 2002, delegates from the World Economic Forum arrived in the Midtown area of New York City. To greet them were thousands of protestors, themselves greeted by what the New York Times called a "stern police response." The police and the protesters generally kept the peace, with only 200 arrests and little violence. Meanwhile, in a different corner of the city, a small group of hackers, artists, and activists--or "hacktivists"--met to catch their breath, organize political materials, and of course check their email. They chose a venue unknown to the police, the Eyebeam center for media art on West 21st Street. They also chose their own security system, one that would protect the integrity of their sensitive computer communications. They chose Carnivore. Carnivore is an efficient data collection and analysis system used to monitor all forms of Internet communication. It is a premium service of Radical Software Group (RSG), the all-star collective of computer artists hand selected from cities around the world. Like the FBI software on which it's based, Carnivore is a non-invasive spying tool that collects email and web traffic from its local environment. Because Carnivore was installed last weekend in the same building where the hacktivists were checking their email, RSG was granted a unique perspective on the use of digital communications inside the protest zone. During the weekend of demonstrations the following organizations used the Eyebeam facilities: Las Agencias (http://www.lasagencias.net/), The "bike writer" group from MIT (http://architecture.mit.edu/~atmarcus/bikewriter/writer.html), Bureau of Inverse Technology (http://bureauit.org), Institute for Applied Autonomy (http://www.appliedautonomy.com/), RTMark (http://rtmark.com), and The Yes Men (http://theyesmen.org/). It is not known how long each group used the facilities. Some simply visited, others used it often. However, once inside the Eyebeam surveillance zone, one hundred percent of the hacktivists's Internet communications were monitored by Carnivore. Data collection itself is worth nothing without appropriate analysis. Thus, Carnivore offers superior diagnostics created by the world's leading software artists. For example Mark Napier, a New York artist, has released an analysis tool for Carnivore called "Black and White" (http://www.potatoland.org/blackwhite/). He used this tool to calculate the overall truth or falsity of the hacktivists's data. After several days of monitoring, their data was found to be %37 true and %63 false. Another diagnostic is called "Trigger Words." This tool records the frequency of sensitive words--words such as "nuclear" or "White House." After several days of monitoring, the hacktivists maintained a fairly mainstream communications vocabulary. For example, while the word "anarchy" was used 3 times, the word "freedom" was used 64 times. "Hate" scored a high 75, however it was outranked by "hope" with 138 instances. Several rare or unusual terms were also employed by the hacktivists at at least once during their weekend of web use. These include: kiwi, Fukuyama, and ninja (used 29 times!). Complete statistics appear at the end of this message. If you are in search of an effective data collection and analysis solution, please try Carnivore. From schools to cybercafes to corporate offices, Carnivore brings meaning to information. Analysis tools are now available from Cory Arcangel/BEIGE, Mark Daggett, Josh Davis, Entropy8Zuper! and others. For more information, visit http://rhizome.org/carnivore + + + DIAGNOSTIC TOOL Trigger Words #2 (a Carnivore Client) LOCATION Eyebeam Atelier, 540 W. 21st Street, New York City DURATION Start time: 13:57:28 Jan 30, 2002 End time: 23:11:23 Feb 2, 2002 ANALYSIS SUBJECTS Las Agencias (http://www.lasagencias.net/) The "bike writer" group from MIT (http://architecture.mit.edu/~atmarcus/bikewriter/writer.html) Bureau of Inverse Technology (http://bureauit.org) Institute for Applied Autonomy (http://www.appliedautonomy.com/) RTMark (http://rtmark.com) The Yes Men (http://theyesmen.org/) TRIGGER WORD USAGE - ------------------------- Meta 2226 Sport 1151 Cards 975 Chan 826 York 611 Keywords 547 Global 446 Rsta 397 Privacy 369 Erco 326 Tools 282 Virtual 275 Ssor 258 Electron 240 Market 239 Import 232 Package 198 Secure 198 Rail 173 D-11 165 SHAPE 164 Society 161 Mexico 157 Bank 143 Rita 143 Hope 138 Vale 138 Solo 114 SORT 112 Passwd 106 Force 104 Guest 103 Chelsea 98 Jack 97 Mole 96 Angela 89 Contacts 87 Zone 87 Unix 86 Blocks 85 Osco 82 Edition 77 Hate 75 Government 73 Tiger 73 NTIS 72 Football 67 Dictionary 65 Consul 64 Freedom 64 Garbage 64 Qrss 59 Tokyo 58 Virus 56 JAVA 52 Austin 50 Quarter 50 Taiwan 50 Evil 48 Fish 47 Mega 46 Fake 45 Archives 44 Alex 43 Chosen 41 Mania 40 President 40 Resta 40 Smith 40 Cocaine 38 Police 38 South Africa 38 RENS 37 Golf 36 Centro 35 Dead 33 Executive 33 Jasmine 32 Texas 32 White House 32 Credit card 31 Honor 31 Harvard 30 Replay 30 Face 29 Ninja 29 Reno 28 Bronze 27 SERT 27 Nike 26 Bach 23 Beef 23 Buzzer 23 CIDA 23 Gorilla 23 Starr 23 Codes 22 Floss 22 Atlas 21 MSNBC 21 Gatt 20 Panama 20 Military 19 Basement 18 Schloss 18 Asset 16 Illuminati 16 Morgan 16 NASA 16 Threat 16 Aladdin 15 Soros 15 Trump 15 Spook 14 Anonymous 13 Dolch 13 Flame 13 Jackson 13 Rubin 13 Siemens 13 Advise 12 Debugging 12 Kiwi 12 ISEC 11 MISSI 11 NAIA 11 Porno 11 ISSO 10 Mace 10 Toad 10 AT&T 9 Cowboy 9 EADA 9 Stanley 9 DERA 8 ISPE 8 ISTA 8 Rhost 8 Submiss 8 CUSI 7 Fraud 7 JICA 7 Marx 7 Moore 7 Sweep 7 USSS 7 ASIS 6 CISE 6 Clone 6 Embassy 6 Lynch 6 Nuclear 6 Pixar 6 Platform 6 Stephanie 6 Unclassified 6 Baldwin 5 Captain 5 Goldman 5 Iris 5 Morse 5 Nash 5 Smuggle 5 Active X 4 ASIO 4 Bess 4 Cable & Wireless 4 Explicit 4 Gamma 4 LATA 4 Monica 4 Nitrate 4 Roswell 4 SAFE 4 SARA 4 Shelter 4 SLIP 4 Anarchy 3 Badger 3 CCSS 3 Daisy 3 Delta 3 Investigation 3 Larson 3 LITE 3 Maple 3 NIMA 3 Nowhere 3 NSES 3 PCMT 3 Playboy 3 Recon 3 SAAM 3 Tajik 3 Vanuatu 3 Advisors 2 Agfa 2 BECCA 2 Bluebird 2 CBOT 2 Csim 2 DDIS 2 Elvis 2 Embassy 2 IDEA 2 JICC 2 JOTS 2 Montenegro 2 Nuclear 2 Pirg 2 RAID 2 Razor 2 SORO 2 Spoke 2 Sweeping 2 Talent 2 USCODE 2 Varon 2 Yakima 2 Analyzer 1 Armani 1 ASTS 1 BIOL 1 Blackjack 1 Bootleg 1 Burns 1 Canine 1 CCSC 1 Chatter 1 Competitor 1 Dort 1 Encryption 1 Fetish 1 Forschung 1 Freeh 1 Fritz 1 Fukuyama 1 Goodwin 1 GOTS 1 Grom 1 Gulf 1 Hackers 1 HALO 1 Indigo 1 ISAF 1 IWIS 1 Kosovo 1 Lacrosse 1 Lander 1 LLNL 1 Loch 1 Locks 1 Mantis 1 Merlin 1 MOSAIC 1 NCSA 1 NLSP 1 NSAS 1 Ortega 1 OTAN 1 OTAT 1 Peapod 1 Press-release 1 Reflection 1 S511 1 Salsa 1 SARD 1 SART 1 Schengen 1 SFPD 1 Sneakers 1 SSCI 1 STEP 1 T2S2 1 Telex 1 TSCM 1 Veggie 1 VFCT 1 WWSV 1 Yukon 1 ZNI1 1 ------------------------------ # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net