Question 6: Hacker are the heroes of the 21st century.Argue and against this statement
Essay Framework Proposal
This is the Essay Framework Proposal where I am sure about this topic as I am interested with the hacker world and want to explore about it deeply.
Introduction:
-Subject Matter : Hackers. Introduce the types of hacker and the history of hacker
-Research Objective: To argue whether the hackers are hero or not in 21st century
-Research Question : How hacker can be a hero to help the society in term of art and design field with
knowledge and idea?.
-Relevance Research: ~What hackers actually do in term of art and design field?
~Did they join any project that have relation about art and technology?
~Hackers who success in this field
Body:
-Introduced about the hackers and history behind the hackers
-The relationship between the hacker and the art and design
-Exploration about the new term of design - Hacking design
-List some examples of art of hacking event and the function of the event (case study)
-How the hackers use their creative minds and knowledge to come out a new kind of creation or technology
that bring benefits to the society.
-Support or against the statement
Conclusion:
-A summary the reason on the support or against statement
-How they help to contribute to this society
-Agreement on whether support or against the statement
References
Appendix
Sunday 19 January 2014
Movie on Hacking
Kevin Mitnick
As I mentioned in previous post, he is a former and he was jailed two times as he was accused break into law and became target of FBI during his hacking. After released from jail, he subject to several books and one of the books "Takedown" was screen on cinema.
Takedown
-15th March 2000
-The story is based on true story of the capture on Computer Hacker,
Kevin Mitnick where he is at present working as an American
computer security consultant.
-This movie is about his life and how a hacker turned into country
computer security counselor.Surprisingly, he is in the list of most
wanted cyber criminal when he was arrested.
There are also other movies that connect with hacker:
1.Hacker
-1995
-The cyber war between Acid Burn ( Angelina Jolie) and Zero Cool
(Jonny lee millar) is the most attractive part in that movie.This movie
also featured how the hacker using their social engineering skill
to get sensitive detail related to the hardware.
Here the trailer :
link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql1uLyuWra8
As I mentioned in previous post, he is a former and he was jailed two times as he was accused break into law and became target of FBI during his hacking. After released from jail, he subject to several books and one of the books "Takedown" was screen on cinema.
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| Image 1: Kevin Mitnick Link:blogs.voxeo.com |
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| Image 2: Takedown Source:IMDb |
-15th March 2000
-The story is based on true story of the capture on Computer Hacker,
Kevin Mitnick where he is at present working as an American
computer security consultant.
-This movie is about his life and how a hacker turned into country
computer security counselor.Surprisingly, he is in the list of most
wanted cyber criminal when he was arrested.
There are also other movies that connect with hacker:
1.Hacker
-1995
-The cyber war between Acid Burn ( Angelina Jolie) and Zero Cool
(Jonny lee millar) is the most attractive part in that movie.This movie
also featured how the hacker using their social engineering skill
to get sensitive detail related to the hardware.
Here the trailer :
2.The Matrix
-1999
-The movie is about a computer hacker
who learn from mysterious rebels about the
true nature of his reality and his war against the
controller of it
Here the trailer :
link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8g9zL-JL8E
References:
Agrawal,H. (2008-2014) Top Hollywood Movies on Hacking. Available at: http://www.shoutmeloud.com/top-10-hollywood-movies-on-hacking.html
Saturday 18 January 2014
Art Hacking Project
There are some interesting projects that is somehow have connection with hacking but utilize in term of art and design.John Borland has mentioned those projects.
1.Transparency Grenade
Artist : Julian Oliver
About the project :
The Transparency Grenade is an iconic
cure for this frustration, making the process
leaking information from closed as easy as
pulling the pin.There will be a pin that can
be pulled out and the images and web sites
will be extract out from local Wi-Fi and portray
them to a screen that display what local phone
and computer are looking at. It is equipped with
a tiny computer and powerful wireless antenna.
The Transparency Grenade capture network
office and audio at the site and securely streams
it to server where it is mined for information.
2.Packet Bridge
Artist :Julian Oliver and group of Critical Engineering
About the project:
It is involving in detecting the location without the GPS by hijacking a kind of Wi-Fi signal where the signal from any location of the city will be collected in the Wi-Fi data receiver then tunneled online to another location and rebroadcast.14 Wi-Fi router are separately turned into 14 channel of frequencies of the 802.11 Wi-Fi Standard.The entire idea and concept is about repositioning electromagnetic
infrastructure into different space.
Not only that, there are also another projects that quite interesting:
Prosthetic knowledge: Assembled a series of creative project with ongoing theme.
Oculus Rift
Among the projects, it is quite outstanding and capture the attention of audience which the creation is creative enough to inspire new ideas and new experiences.Oculus Rift also have relation to Kinetic, Arduino, 3D language and Processing and Programming in language or projection of map software. There are two types of Oculus Rift that create by two different artists and as well as engineers
1.Entropy Wrangler
2.PaperDude VR
Artist : Globacore
It is a project about utilizing in common bicycle and also an homage to the well known 8 bit video game, Paperboy using the kinetic as main element to control the gesture of people for gameplay. It is built in 3D assets and build in 3D studio and textured in Photoshop.There is also a sensor whereby it can detect the speed and has ability to control resistance.It also has provided a headset with full 360 degrees to let audience to concentrate on the game.
Below are video about the PaperDude VR:
video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKHEoCN0Nmg
3.City Trip
Artist: Globacore
The people can travel a fantasy and alien city when they ride on the City Trip. The people will feel that they are really inside the environment as they pedaling and steering and they will navigate through virtual reality.People can fly through the air and hit the ramps and use the bicycle bell to jump from the building to another building as well.People can set their own gold or challenge to have fun on it.
Video about the City Trip:
Video link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDNFGVMac5c
Above are the examples Art Hacking project done by the artists as they know that using their own creativity and knowledge to create the amazing and outstanding technology is important than break into other computer system to steal data of other people illegally. To me, the artist and hacker use their expertise to create their own creation are hero!
References:
Borland, J. (2013) Hacking Secrets into Art. California: Wired. Available at: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/12/hacking-secrets-art/ [Accessed on: 18th January 2014]
VIM (2013) Julian Oliver: The Transparency Grenade. Available at: http://julianoliver.com/output/transparency-grenade [Accessed on: 18th January 2014]
Prosthetic Knowledge (2013) Prosthetic Knowledge Picks: The Year of Oculus Rift. Available at:http://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/dec/23/prosthetic-knowledge-picks-oculus-rift/
[Accessed on:18th January 2014]
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| Image: Transparency Grenade Image source: http://julianoliver.com/output/transparency-grenade |
Artist : Julian Oliver
About the project :
The Transparency Grenade is an iconic
cure for this frustration, making the process
leaking information from closed as easy as
pulling the pin.There will be a pin that can
be pulled out and the images and web sites
will be extract out from local Wi-Fi and portray
them to a screen that display what local phone
and computer are looking at. It is equipped with
a tiny computer and powerful wireless antenna.
The Transparency Grenade capture network
office and audio at the site and securely streams
it to server where it is mined for information.
2.Packet Bridge
Artist :Julian Oliver and group of Critical Engineering
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| Image 2: Packet Bridge Image source: http://www.yugo.at/processing/?what=packetbruecke |
It is involving in detecting the location without the GPS by hijacking a kind of Wi-Fi signal where the signal from any location of the city will be collected in the Wi-Fi data receiver then tunneled online to another location and rebroadcast.14 Wi-Fi router are separately turned into 14 channel of frequencies of the 802.11 Wi-Fi Standard.The entire idea and concept is about repositioning electromagnetic
infrastructure into different space.
Not only that, there are also another projects that quite interesting:
Prosthetic knowledge: Assembled a series of creative project with ongoing theme.
Oculus Rift
Among the projects, it is quite outstanding and capture the attention of audience which the creation is creative enough to inspire new ideas and new experiences.Oculus Rift also have relation to Kinetic, Arduino, 3D language and Processing and Programming in language or projection of map software. There are two types of Oculus Rift that create by two different artists and as well as engineers
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| Image 3: screen capture of Entropy Wrangler Image source: |
1.Entropy Wrangler
Artist : Ian Cheng
He debuted his own version of Entropy Wrangler in London.It is chaotic virtual space in which the viewpoint of participant can alter the dynamic of weightless 3D form by generating their own narrative from experience.2.PaperDude VR
Artist : Globacore
It is a project about utilizing in common bicycle and also an homage to the well known 8 bit video game, Paperboy using the kinetic as main element to control the gesture of people for gameplay. It is built in 3D assets and build in 3D studio and textured in Photoshop.There is also a sensor whereby it can detect the speed and has ability to control resistance.It also has provided a headset with full 360 degrees to let audience to concentrate on the game.
Below are video about the PaperDude VR:
3.City Trip
Artist: Globacore
The people can travel a fantasy and alien city when they ride on the City Trip. The people will feel that they are really inside the environment as they pedaling and steering and they will navigate through virtual reality.People can fly through the air and hit the ramps and use the bicycle bell to jump from the building to another building as well.People can set their own gold or challenge to have fun on it.
Video about the City Trip:
Above are the examples Art Hacking project done by the artists as they know that using their own creativity and knowledge to create the amazing and outstanding technology is important than break into other computer system to steal data of other people illegally. To me, the artist and hacker use their expertise to create their own creation are hero!
References:
Borland, J. (2013) Hacking Secrets into Art. California: Wired. Available at: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/12/hacking-secrets-art/ [Accessed on: 18th January 2014]
VIM (2013) Julian Oliver: The Transparency Grenade. Available at: http://julianoliver.com/output/transparency-grenade [Accessed on: 18th January 2014]
Prosthetic Knowledge (2013) Prosthetic Knowledge Picks: The Year of Oculus Rift. Available at:http://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/dec/23/prosthetic-knowledge-picks-oculus-rift/
[Accessed on:18th January 2014]
Friday 17 January 2014
Space Hacking
We know that the definition of hacking whereby a person who broke into a system to gain the data of other people illegally for personal benefit ( as mentioned before). But 'hacking' in term of art and design can be proposed by other definition where Christina Haralanova, a feminist has stated that hacking is an art of constantly learning about the artifact that that surround us throughout our lives.Therefore, hackers are the creator of technology with their creative mind and knowledge to help the society.
Space Hacking
What is Space Hacking? According to gapingvoid (2013), it is mainly defined as creatively altering the space that you work with in order to make it more agreeable in your sensibility. Therefore, it is a new term of design for decorating
Here is a quite interesting article about the Space Hacking in Facebook New York Office
According to Business Insider, Steve Kovach and Daniel Goodman have discovered Space Hacking
design where the
-Facebook employees are get a budget 'hack' their workspace
or decorate if they see it as fit.Sometimes they will pool
all their money together to
make something really big. Facebook call this "Space Hacking"-
-The Facebook "F" that
made out of
metro cards-
-This was made by sticking
a Facebook "like " symbol
to the wall and dripping the
paint over it. The original plan
was to remove the symbol
the paint dried to get the
outline of it but they decided
to remain the rough look
that seem better.-
References:
Corcoran,H (2013) Hack your future: How artist are hacking the world.Available at: http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/16301/1/hackyourfuture-how-artists-are-hacking-the-world [Accessed on: 17th January 2014]
Macleod, H (2013) Space Hacking: the new geek-chic term for decorating. Available at: http://gapingvoid.com/2013/10/03/space-hacking/ [Accessed on 17th January 2014]
Kovach, S& Goodman,D.(2013) Inside Facebook: Take a tour Through the Social Network's New York City Headquaters.New York: Business Insider. Available at: http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-new-york-office-tour-2013-9?op=1 [Accessed on 17th January 2014]
Haralanova, C.(2004-2013) Hactivism: The art of Practicing Life and Computer Hacking for Feminist Activism.Studio XX: .dpi. Available at: http://dpi.studioxx.org/en/mission-and-history [Accessed on 17th January 2014]
Space Hacking
What is Space Hacking? According to gapingvoid (2013), it is mainly defined as creatively altering the space that you work with in order to make it more agreeable in your sensibility. Therefore, it is a new term of design for decorating
Here is a quite interesting article about the Space Hacking in Facebook New York Office
According to Business Insider, Steve Kovach and Daniel Goodman have discovered Space Hacking
design where the
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| Image1: Space hacking design of Facebook Office Sources: Business Insider |
-Facebook employees are get a budget 'hack' their workspace
or decorate if they see it as fit.Sometimes they will pool
all their money together to
make something really big. Facebook call this "Space Hacking"-
 |
| Image 2: "F" design source: Business Insider |
made out of
metro cards-
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| Image3: 'Like design' source: Business Insider |
a Facebook "like " symbol
to the wall and dripping the
paint over it. The original plan
was to remove the symbol
the paint dried to get the
outline of it but they decided
to remain the rough look
that seem better.-
References:
Corcoran,H (2013) Hack your future: How artist are hacking the world.Available at: http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/16301/1/hackyourfuture-how-artists-are-hacking-the-world [Accessed on: 17th January 2014]
Macleod, H (2013) Space Hacking: the new geek-chic term for decorating. Available at: http://gapingvoid.com/2013/10/03/space-hacking/ [Accessed on 17th January 2014]
Kovach, S& Goodman,D.(2013) Inside Facebook: Take a tour Through the Social Network's New York City Headquaters.New York: Business Insider. Available at: http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-new-york-office-tour-2013-9?op=1 [Accessed on 17th January 2014]
Haralanova, C.(2004-2013) Hactivism: The art of Practicing Life and Computer Hacking for Feminist Activism.Studio XX: .dpi. Available at: http://dpi.studioxx.org/en/mission-and-history [Accessed on 17th January 2014]
Monday 13 January 2014
Digital Art
I would like to introduce two art projects from Kickstater and creator project where the concept and execution of both of the projects are attracting my attention.
Below are some of the examples:
Here a video about the project:
From point of view of about this project, it brings out the issue how time has become
pervasive and unconscious since the digital revolution.In now digital world, everyone
is clicking on their tab, phone, but they never realize that time is passing fast. Time is
more abstract concept but in this project is appeared more on physical.Rewind take
on hours, minutes and second is a refreshing chance to reconsider how we
utilize our day meaningfully.
References:
Kickstarter, Inc (2014) GPS Art Poster, Available at: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/237731198/gps-art-poster [Accessed on: 11 January 2014]
Sokol, Z.(2013) The Creators Project: With Rewind Installation, Time is Literally in Your Hands.Available at:http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/time-is-in-your-hands-literally [Accessed on: 11 January 2014]
Kickstarter project
GPS Art Poster :
This project was successfully funded on March 15, 2013.
The Artist :
Steve Coast
(He is a brit living in Seattle, he started open street map and make use and talk about them)
About the project :
Steve Coast started with many thousands of GPS traces from people moving around. He uses
open source software and rendered them into stunning art and become poster.This poster will
make people think and examine such as "where is that place" or " what road is there".
Trough this, people will connect with each other and start a conversation. Not only that
the freeways and well traveled place are appeared thicker than other routes.
open source software and rendered them into stunning art and become poster.This poster will
make people think and examine such as "where is that place" or " what road is there".
Trough this, people will connect with each other and start a conversation. Not only that
the freeways and well traveled place are appeared thicker than other routes.
Below are some of the examples:
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| image 1: poster link:http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/237731198/gps-art-poster |
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| image 2: San Francisco poster link: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/237731198/gps-art-poster |
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| Image 3: London poster link:http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/237731198/gps-art-poster |
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| Image 4: poster that hang on wall link:http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/237731198/gps-art-poster |
I found this project interesting where the artist, Steve Coast using GPS to track the
the movement of the city. It is not a traditional map but is a map that so real where
the routes are crossing and passing by the people in the city where everyone just like
appear inside the poster. Each black line represents the unique journey of different
people with different stories. Different people do things differently at the same time.
the movement of the city. It is not a traditional map but is a map that so real where
the routes are crossing and passing by the people in the city where everyone just like
appear inside the poster. Each black line represents the unique journey of different
people with different stories. Different people do things differently at the same time.
Creators Project
With 'Rewind' Installation, Time is Literally in Your Hands
Artist:
Pauline Saglio's
She obtained a Bachelor's degree with Honors in 2013 where she very close to drawing throughout her works. She also works frame by frame but combined to programming and interactivity to break the linerity
About this project
is an interpretation about time so that the dimension has a curious physical quantity. It includes
iPad esque screens that require visitors to manually rewind each display to start an animation
that show minutes passing.Each display has its own unique rewinding mechanism, forcing users
to touch the clocks and thus be connected to time in a more intimate sense.
iPad esque screens that require visitors to manually rewind each display to start an animation
that show minutes passing.Each display has its own unique rewinding mechanism, forcing users
to touch the clocks and thus be connected to time in a more intimate sense.
Here a video about the project:
From point of view of about this project, it brings out the issue how time has become
pervasive and unconscious since the digital revolution.In now digital world, everyone
is clicking on their tab, phone, but they never realize that time is passing fast. Time is
more abstract concept but in this project is appeared more on physical.Rewind take
on hours, minutes and second is a refreshing chance to reconsider how we
utilize our day meaningfully.
References:
Kickstarter, Inc (2014) GPS Art Poster, Available at: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/237731198/gps-art-poster [Accessed on: 11 January 2014]
Sokol, Z.(2013) The Creators Project: With Rewind Installation, Time is Literally in Your Hands.Available at:http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/time-is-in-your-hands-literally [Accessed on: 11 January 2014]
Saturday 11 January 2014
Art and Hacking
Hackers are not only deal with breaking into other system to steal important document for self benefit but actually they can share and utilize their brilliant ideas or knowledge in other creation to help the society on order to improve their quality of life. Not only that, hacking can be used as design element in order to bring out the issue happening around. Below are some of the examples:
Brooklyn_319 Scholes
There are 60 artists and hackers will inhabit 319 Scholes to explore the idea of "God Mode" and produce new and collaborative projects that can interact and engage with the visitors as they uploaded online throughout the hack."God Mode"- offer players unlimited strength, second of invulnerability, a change in camera angle, and access to certain unreachable place and become pervasive in digital life.
one of the project : God's eye
is an ios app that God is only one from all of its user where other user are God's eye. When God want to be entertained, they summon their eye through a push notification and broadcast to other users. The God's eye will offer their live video stream and earn a "god point". The God's eye can visit the store and purchases anything with their God Point, ranging from sending personal message to purchases godhood.
Matthieu Tremblin
a young French artist who using hacking design where he is inspired from the independent and spontaneous expression in urban sphere.He introduced three intervention in urban sphere.
1.Cobble Jetty ( remix of Spiral Jetty)
2. Fruit Skewer
3.Libre (free)
Brooklyn_319 Scholes
There are 60 artists and hackers will inhabit 319 Scholes to explore the idea of "God Mode" and produce new and collaborative projects that can interact and engage with the visitors as they uploaded online throughout the hack."God Mode"- offer players unlimited strength, second of invulnerability, a change in camera angle, and access to certain unreachable place and become pervasive in digital life.
one of the project : God's eye
is an ios app that God is only one from all of its user where other user are God's eye. When God want to be entertained, they summon their eye through a push notification and broadcast to other users. The God's eye will offer their live video stream and earn a "god point". The God's eye can visit the store and purchases anything with their God Point, ranging from sending personal message to purchases godhood.
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| image link: http://www.arthackday.net/projects/lauren-mccarthy-aaron-meyers-god-s-eyes |
Matthieu Tremblin
a young French artist who using hacking design where he is inspired from the independent and spontaneous expression in urban sphere.He introduced three intervention in urban sphere.
1.Cobble Jetty ( remix of Spiral Jetty)
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| image link:http://owni.eu/2011/06/27/design-hacking-a-new-art-form/ |
2. Fruit Skewer
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| image link:http://owni.eu/2011/06/27/design-hacking-a-new-art-form/ |
3.Libre (free)
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| image link: http://owni.eu/2011/06/27/design-hacking-a-new-art-form/ |
Due he is smartly making use of the theory of "hacking" into design, above images are the true from urban hacking.
References:
Dorne, G. (2011) Design Hacking: The New Art Form. Available at: http://owni.eu/2011/06/27/design-hacking-a-new-art-form/ [Accessed at 12th January 2014]
Meyers, A. (2014) Art Hack Day: GOD's EYE. Available at: http://www.arthackday.net/projects/lauren-mccarthy-aaron-meyers-god-s-eyes [Accessed at 12th January 2014]
Art Hack Day (2013) God Mode: Brooklyn_319 Scholes. Available at: http://www.arthackday.net/events/god-mode [Accessed at 12 January 2014]
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