The art of hacking

Hackers are not only deal with business profit or politic issues but they also take part in art and design and to see whether the hacker will use this creative field to help the society or not. In this post, the topic will more focus about the aesthetic part of hacking in form of art and design.According to (Charlie Gere 2008:197) who wrote the book Digital Culture, he claimed that hacking is the form of symbolic and aesthetic resistance found another kind of expression in the 90's when they begin to exploit computer networks as the locus of new form of avant-garde art practice.

VNS Matrix:
is group artists emerged from the cyberswamp where organized by four Australian (Francesca da Rimini, Virginia Barrette,Julieanne Pierce and Josie Starrs) and their purpose is redefined the role and image of women in technology and art as before that women are claimed that they are underrepresented on the maker and user of computer technology and yet the Internet are depicted as object as fetishistic stereotype of femininity. So, the term " Cyberfeminism" is brought out in early 1990's.
One of their project:

All New Gen

All New Gen by VNS Matrix

Female is able get into cyberspace and hack into the controls
and databanks of Big Daddy Frame. This is aimed to sow the
seed of New World Disorder and end the rule of phallic power.
[According to audio english.org, phallic is referred to male organ of
copulation as embodiment of generative power] Therefore, in this context
phallic power is meant male  power. Their well designed interface
already acknowledge the role of gender in technology as well as
made up the topic of Feminism.






Therefore, in that time VNS Matrix is much like hero for the female or women where the people in the society have stereotyped that women are not able to generate idea in computer technology or cyber world but the group of artists from the cyberswamp make use of art and design to build stronger and active reputation of feminity among the society. Their expression through out the feminism toward the society was given huge impact to people.

Art Hack Day
is an event dedicated to the process of art making towards the open source technologies. It is also an exploration the nature of technology and bring together the hackers whose medium is art and artist whose medium is technology. The visitors are also encouraged to interact with the project online throughout the hack.

This event has the ability to affect the social change for public good trough potential of the beauty combination of technology and art.Through this event,it is not only gather the hackers but also gather all their knowledge to brings out the new creations that benefit the society. They can use their knowledges and brilliant ideas in the right track.

                                                                  Art Hack Day
                                                  Video link:http://www.arthackday.net/events/hackers-as-artists
                                           

References link:
Gere,C.(2008) Digital Culture.London.Reaktion Books Ltd.

Media Art Net (1995) VNS Matrix: All New Gen. Available at: http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/all-new-gen/ [Accessed 28/12/2013]

AudioEnglish.org (2013) What does phallic mean? Available at: http://www.audioenglish.org/dictionary/phallic.htm [Accessed 28/12/2013]

Art Hack Day (2013) Hackers As Artists. Available at http://www.arthackday.net/events/hackers-as-artists 
[Accessed 28/12/2013]