Net Art: Data Hacking, Coding and Critical Thinking Summer Art School, Videotage, Hong Kong. 1.Aug.2014

1. Net
Art:
Data
Hacking,
Coding
&
Cri5cal
Thinking
網絡藝術之駭玩數據，編碼及批判性思維
Winnie
Soon
www.siusoon.com
1.aug.2014

2. Net
Art?

3. Net
Art?
+
technical
/技術
+
distribu5on/分發
+
data/數據
+
culture
/
文化
+
knowledge/ 知識
+
freedom
&
sharing
/ 自由, 分享
+
produc5on
/ 生產
+
Poli5cs
/
政治
+
Aesthe5cs
/美學

4. 分享

5. 分享 #1
China
Channel/
2008
hLp://chinachannel.fffff.at/
|
hLp://rhizome.org/editorial/2009/sep/8/china-­‐channel-­‐2008-­‐aram-­‐bartholl-­‐evan-­‐roth-­‐and-­‐tob/

6. 分享 #2
CANNOT
/
2010

7. 分享 #3
CENSORED
CENSORSHIP/
2010
hLp://kimasendorf.com/cccn/

8. 分享 #4
Weiboscope/
2011-­‐
hLp://weiboscope.jmsc.hku.hk/

9. 你的分享
+
technical
/技術
+
distribu5on/分發
+
data/數據
+
culture
/
文化
+
knowledge/ 知識
+
freedom
&
sharing
/ 自由, 分享
+
produc5on
/ 生產
+
Poli5cs
/
政治
+
Aesthe5cs
/美學

10. Hacking?

11. Hacking?
As
of
22
Jun
2014

12. Hacking?
hLp://www.arthackday.net/about

13. Hacking? Are you a hacker?
+
White
hat
/
白帽黑客
+
Black
hat
/黑帽黑客
+
Gray
hat
/ 灰帽黑客

14. Hacking? HK hacker communities:

15. Hacking? Hacker:
original:
The
Jargon
File
by
Raphael
Finkel
screen
cap:
Bazzichelli
2008,
p.138

16. Hacking? Are you a hacker?
-­‐ Wark,
2001
hLp://www.dvara.net/HK/wark2.asp
"Hackers
create
the
possibility
of
new
things
entering
the
world.
Not
always
great
things,
or
even
good
things,
but
new
things.
In
art,
in
science,
in
philosophy
and
culture,
in
any
process
of
knowledge
where
data
can
be
gathered,
where
informa5on
can
be
extracted
from
it,
and
where
in
that
informa5on
new
possibili5es
for
the
world
produced,
there
are
hackers
hacking
the
new
out
of
the
old.”

17. Hacking? Concept of Black Box

18. Hacking? Concept of Black Box
‘blackboxing’
as
“the
way
scien5fic
and
technical
work
is
made
invisible
by
its
own
success.
When
a
machine
runs
efficiently,
when
a
maLer
of
fact
is
seLled,
one
need
focus
only
on
its
inputs
and
outputs
and
not
on
its
internal
complexity.
Thus,
paradoxically,
the
more
science
and
technology
succeed,
the
more
opaque
and
obscure
they
become.”
(Latour
1999,
my
emphasis)

19. Hacking? Concept of Black Box
“Facebook
is
a
black
box
(Latour,
1999),
and
therefore
it
is
difficult
to
examine
some
of
the
opaque
techniques
at
the
informa5onal
level
that
par5cipate
in
shaping
specific
representa5on
of
users
and
poli5cal
processes.”
(Langlous,
Elmer,
McKelvey,
Dereveaux:
424)

20. Hacking? Facebook is a black box
hLp://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2013/10/30/facebook-­‐considers-­‐vast-­‐increase-­‐in-­‐data-­‐collec5on/
hLps://www.techdirt.com/ar5cles/20131215/23260825572/facebook-­‐is-­‐tracking-­‐when-­‐you-­‐write-­‐
something-­‐then-­‐decide-­‐to-­‐delete-­‐it-­‐rather-­‐than-­‐post-­‐it.shtml

21. Hacking? Facebook is a black box
戴耀廷
Facebook⼾戶
和平佔中發起⼈人戴耀廷個⼈人
facebook帳⼾戶⽇日前疑遭集體舉報，
突然被封，事後戴耀廷「上訴」，
向facebook提交⾝身份證副本「驗
明正⾝身」，但對⽅方
指其帳⼾戶名
稱內有「Benny（戴耀廷英⽂文名」
字樣，但在⾝身份證副本上找不
到，上訴不獲受理。今⽇日戴耀
廷的後備帳⼾戶終於重開，他利
⽤用帳⼾戶開啟⼀一個
facebook專⾴頁，
並留⾔言指：「重⾒見天⽇日，有⼀一
點唏噓。事情其實還有⼀一點轉
折，我之前是連現在⽤用的這個
account(帳⼾戶)也給封了，只是上
訴成功，感到網絡的『權⼒力』
其實也是挺⼤大的。」
hLp://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/real5me/news/20140723/52721389

22. Hacking? Facebook is a black box #1
hLp://bengrosser.com/projects/facebook-­‐demetricator/
Facebook
Demetricator
/
2012

23. Hacking? Facebook is a black box #2
hLp://www.siusoon.com/home/?p=1062
The
Likes
of
Brother
Cream
Cat/
2013

24. Hacking? Facebook is a black box #3
hLp://www.seppukoo.com/
Seppukoo/
2009

25. Hacking? Facebook is a black box #4
hLps://www.facebook.com/glitchr
|
hLp://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/glitchr-­‐is-­‐the-­‐most-­‐interes5ng-­‐ar5st-­‐hacker-­‐on-­‐facebook
“how
far
I
can
go
beyond
the
strict
constraints
of
Facebook's
layout”
-­‐
Laimonas
Zakas

26. Early
net
art
• An5-­‐art
concept
– An5-­‐ins5tu5onalized
– Unable
to
sell
– Difficult
to
preserve
hLp://wwwwwwwww.jodi.org/

27. Early
net
art
• Medium
specificity
“Net
art
plays
with
the
protocols
of
the
Internet,
with
its
technical
peculiari5es”
(Baumgartel
2002,
p.24)
– Animated
gif
• hLp://www.andysowards.com/blog/assets/nyan-­‐cat-­‐anima5on-­‐art.gif?b91b38
• hLp://www.andysowards.com/blog/assets/too-­‐hot-­‐need-­‐ice-­‐cream-­‐cat-­‐anima5on.gif?b91b38
• hLp://www.andysowards.com/blog/assets/newspaper-­‐flip-­‐anima5on-­‐photo-­‐art.gif?b91b38
• hLp://www.siusoon.com/projects/projects_mediaart/mao.gif
• hLp://www.siusoon.com/home/?p=976

28. Aesthe5cs
of
net
art
• Medium
specificity
– Narra5ve:
Olia:
Boyfriend
My
Boyfriend
Came
Back
from
the
War
/
1996
hLp://myboyfriendcamebackfromth.ewar.ru/

29. Aesthe5cs
of
net
art
• Destabilized
and
re-­‐appropriate
informa5on
Shredder
1.0
/
1998
hLp://www.potatoland.org/shredder/shredder.html

30. Aesthe5cs
of
net
art
• Amazon’s
Mechanical
Turk
– Labor
market
– hLps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Mmb5aSscck
The
Sheep
Market/
2006
hLp://www.aaronkoblin.com/work/thesheepmarket/index.html

31. Aesthe5cs
of
net
art
• Process-­‐oriented
– Interac5vity
– Souware’s
constant
evolu5on
• Form
Art
(1997)
Form
Art/
1997
hLp://www.c3.hu/collec5on/form/

32. Aesthe5cs
of
net
art
• Process-­‐oriented
– Interac5vity
– dealing
with
live
feed
Listening
Post
/
2003
hLps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD36IajCz6A

33. Aesthe5cs
of
net
art
• Process-­‐oriented
– Interac5vity
– dealing
with
live
feed
Jsut
code/
2010
-­‐
2012
hLps://vimeo.com/90781011

34. Network
poli5cs
• “The
technical
is
always
poli5cal,
the
network
architecture
is
poli5cs”
(Galloway
2004,
p.254)
– Street
Ghost
(2012)
by
Paolo
Cirio
hLp://youtu.be/JBcoQm9VGqc?
list=PLJHWosFmMRqqGaTfKpoevnglyd2LLvMdy

35. Network
poli5cs
• “The
technical
is
always
poli5cal,
the
network
architecture
is
poli5cs”
(Galloway
2004,
p.254)
– Forgot
your
password
(2013)
by
Aram
Bartholl
hLp://datenform.de/forgot-­‐your-­‐password.html

36. Network
poli5cs
• “The
technical
is
always
poli5cal,
the
network
architecture
is
poli5cs”
(Galloway
2004,
p.254)
– Dead
Drops
(2010)
by
Aram
Bartholl
hLps://vimeo.com/16620712

37. Appendix

38. HK-based artists

39. Hong
Kong
/
香港
• Henry
Chu
/ 朱力行
股市聲動/
1996
hLps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-­‐Wsx79eGrnI

40. Hong
Kong
/
香港
• Teddy
Lo
/ 羅揚文
The
Constant
–
black
or
white
/
2009
Shades
Dynamisms
/
2011
hLps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgcUP_X2RQQ

41. Hong
Kong
/
香港
• Francis
Lam
/
林昇源
hLp://db-­‐db.com/porzolio/index2.html

42. Hong
Kong
/
香港
• Keith
Lam
/ 林欣傑
One
Day
Social
Sculpture
/
2013
Signal
Morphor
/
2011
hLp://keithlyk.net/project/sculpture/
hLp://keithlyk.net/project/signal-­‐morphor/

43. Hong
Kong
/
香港
• Ip
Yuk
Yiu/
Meta
Data
/
2009
hLps://vimeo.com/26363358

44. Hong
Kong
/
香港
• Daniel
Howe
hLp://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/
TrackMeNot/
2006

45. Hong
Kong
/
香港
• Marco
De
Mu5is
Threads
of
Desire/
2011
hLp://www.marcodemu5is.com/threadsofdesire

46. Hong
Kong
/
香港
• Audrey
Samson
Digital
Data
Funeral
(forth
coming)
hLp://deathimagina5onlab.com/installa5on.html
Threads
/
2010
hLp://threads.ideacri5k.com/

47. Hong
Kong
/
香港
• Wri5ng
Machine
Collec5ve_e5
|
11-­‐25
Oct,
2014
• TRACING
DATA:
What
you
Read
is
Not
What
we
Write
《讀寫靈機
:
唧唧復唧唧》

48. Img
ref
• hLp://allthingsd.com/files/2012/12/social_network_abstract.png
• hLp://photos-­‐c.ak.|cdn.net/hphotos-­‐ak-­‐xfp1/t1.0-­‐0/
p200x200/10441526_10152468351233351_4464844593977282725_n.jpg
•
hLp://cdn.poweredbysearch.com/wp-­‐content/uploads/2013/07/Grey-­‐Hat.png
• hLp://inews.mingpao.com/up/INews2/20100825/00825plane4.jpg
• hLp://worldinfo4u.com/wp-­‐content/uploads/2014/02/black-­‐box-­‐theory_3515.jpg
• hLp://www.privatewifi.com/wp-­‐content/uploads/2013/12/unnamed.png
• hLp://soshable.com/wp-­‐content/uploads/2013/10/Facebook-­‐Cursor-­‐Tracking.jpg