Christopher Fahey [askROM-remote] on Mon, 28 Jan 2002 19:27:02 +0100 (CET)


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The koreawebart site works just fine now - it was only hacked for a
short "performance" duration. Even if the "hack" was still in effect, it
was a minor prank, the rough equivalent of switching name tags next to
paintings in a real-world gallery.  Not much of a hack if you ask me.

What might have been better would be if the 01oI010%0010O|101 people
caused the koreawebart site to install hidden spyware apps on the
computers of all site visitors, or if they took down the server
permanently. Which would be equivalent to filling a real-world gallery
with anthrax spores or burning the gallery down. A much more interesting
approach, if being "hacker artists" is your  gimmick.

I think the Koreawebart site is really cool, by the way.

-Cf

[christopher eli fahey]
art: http://www.graphpaper.com
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> Opportunity makes the thief
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> /// PROPAGANDA /// HTTP://WWW.0100101110101101.ORG ///
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> # HTTP://WWW.0100101110101101.ORG/home/PROPAGANDA/PRESS
> # HTTP://WWW.0100101110101101.ORG/home/PROPAGANDA/PRESS
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> /// from "Telepolis", 14 Dec 2001
> /// http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/sa/11341/1.html
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> Opportunity makes the thief
> Sensation around a net.art exhibition in Korea
> 
> 
> by Tilman Baumgaertel
> 
> Probably one shouldn't give the passwords of a server to
> net.artists, which are known for the theft of websites and 
> the spreading of "art viruses". The organizators of the 
> net.art group exhibition Korea web art, that showed among 
> others the Critical Art Ensemble, Mark America, Superbad and 
> Entropy8Zuper!, made this error. 
> 
> In order to be able to load their contribution on the website
> of the show, which takes place only in the Internet, they 
> gave the access to the computer to the Italian artist duo 
> 0100101110101101.ORG.
> 
> They of course loaded some web pages on the computer. But in
> the night, in which the exhibition was officially opened in 
> the Net, 0100101110101101.ORG replaced Web-Art with Net.art 
> and exchanged all the directories on the server. The effect: 
> the links of the opening site brought to the wrong work of 
> the wrong artists.
> 
> The ones who visited at that time the freshly "opened"
> website and for example clicked the link to the work of Lisa 
> Jevbratt, came to the one of Motomichi Nakamura, who wanted 
> to see the work of Critical Art Ensemble, ended up on 
> Superbad. Although the reworked website was online only few 
> hours, now unpleasant consequences threaten the ones 
> involved. Some artist complained to the curator Marc Voge, 
> and also the Korean Ministry for culture and tourism, which 
> financed the exhibition, took the incident badly. Now the 
> action could cost even the job or at least a financial 
> punishment to Voge.
> 
> Marc Voge answered Telepolis only with the short comment "I
> love everything 0100101110101101.ORG does on the Net". The 
> punishing threats meet a curator, who in the past stood out 
> for his engagement in art in the Internet. Marc Voge 
> organized in the year 2000 the Web exhibition Total Museum as 
> completion of a contemporary art show, for which among other 
> things produced works by Jodi and Alexei Shulgin. "Korea web 
> art" should obviously continue this beginning. The solid 
> exhibition with renowned artists, which stands under the 
> title "Alone Together", could now be the last one of such 
> presentations.
> 
> In the past, similar actions assured that art institutions
> gave completely up with net.art. The net.art competition 
> Extension of the Hamburg Museum for Contemporary Art, for 
> example, "was hacked" 1997 by the Hamburg artist Cornelia 
> Sollfrank, which sent several hundred works by supposed net 
> artists under fake names. The jury fell on the Fake, and 
> stood afterwards embarrassed.
> 
> Since that time that Hamburg Museum for Contemporary Art made
> no exhibition and no competition of net.art anymore. The 
> artists involved were, as may be understood, not enthusiastic 
> about the action: while Sawad Brooks compared the action with 
> the erased work of De Kooning by Robert Rauschenberg, Steve 
> Kurtz of the Critical Art Ensemble (CAE) writes in an email 
> the fact that "the work of CAE is without copyright and 
> therefore can be reworked into other works by everyone. That 
> is at any time possible - even with an "opening". However he 
> criticizes that Marc Voge finds himself in difficulties after 
> this action and assumed that therefore what concerned above 
> all to the initiators was to promote
> themselves: "There is nothing funny for an hacker to hack an 
> artshow in the Web. It seems that 0100101110101101.ORG wanted 
> to place themselves above all in the center of the whole 
> exhibition, producing a storm in an electronic water glass. 
> Good publicity - no consequences."
> 
> Lisa Jevbratt however finds: "This is very typical net.art.
> Not more and not less. So it was to be expected. In net.art 
> it happens often to be invited around inviting, and infiltrating."
> 
> 
> 
> Links
> 
http://www.koreawebart.org
http://www.0100101110101101.ORG
http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/sa/7808/1.html
http://www.totalmuseum.org/webproject8.html
http://www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de/aext/wettb.htm
http://www.obn.org/femext
http://www.critical-art.net




/// "El Pais", 20 Dec 2001
/// "El colectivo 01.ORG 'piratea' el sitio del Web Art Festival de
Corea" [ spanish ]
http://elpais.es/suple/ciberpais/articulo.html?d_date=20011220&xref=2001
1220elpciboci_3&type=Tes&anchor=elpciboci

/// "ExiWebArt", 6 Dec 2001
/// "Korea Web Art Festival: net art e hacking a Seoul" [ italian ]
http://www.exibart.com/IDNotizia3570.htm




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