tomislav medak on Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:51:44 +0200 (CEST) |
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[nettime-see] exhibition & reader :: System.hack() |
Multimedia Institute (http://www.mi2.hr, Zagreb, Croatia) invites you to participate in the exhibition System.hack(), opened June 14-17 in a hotel room in Zagreb. You can participate online at http://www.systemhack.org/
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// if using System.hack() syntax in programming a method hack would be // invoked on the object System
A moment of excellence in programming is called hack. A perfect hack is surprising, mediagenic, innovative in employing technology, funny and non-violent. System.hack() is every hack that opens up a closed system or makes an open system dynamic.
System.hack() exhibition seeks to find connections between moments of excellence in different fields of human production. This exploration always has to provide answers to the following two questions:
* What system is being hacked?, and
* How this system is being hacked, or what is a specific hack in an individual work?
The exhibition environment is not a gallery, but the interior of a hotel room. The hotel room is supposed to function as the lowest common denominator of living environments users/viewers/visitors/readers inhabit. The hotel room also functions as a Table of Contents for the System.hack() book. Museum labels found on exhibited objects link individual hacks to the essays dealing with issues they raise and social context they intervene in.
Hacks exhibited:
* Orson Wells: The War of the Worlds * Heath Bunting: Superweed kit * John Draper: Captain Crunch whistle * Richard Stallman: GNU General Public License * Michael Steil: Linux on Xboxu * unknown hacker: circumventing CD protection systems
Authors of essays in the book: Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Benjamin Mako Hill, Marcell Mars, Tomislav Medak, Ognjen Strpic i McKenzie Wark
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Opening hours of the exhibition: June 14: 19-21 hrs June 15: 16-19 hrs June 16: 16-19 hrs June 17: 11-14 hrs
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Concept: Multimedijalni institut Realization: Marcell Mars and Tomislav Medak Creative support: Vuk ÄosiÄ i What, How and for Whom/WHW
System.hack() is realized through the collaborative platform Zagreb - Cultural Kapital of Europe 3000 (http://www.culturalkapital.org)
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The exhibition is realized with the assistance of Hotel Dubrovnik in Zagreb.
Zagreb - Cultural Kapital of Europe 3000 takes place in the framework of projekt relations relations - a project initiated by the German Federal Cultural Foundation http://www.projekt-relations.de/
Kontakt. The Arts and Civil Society Program of Erste Bank Group in Central Europe.
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