hacktivism and indipendent news and research links
A highly idiosyncratic list of websites and internet projects chosen by Francesca da Rimini to illustrate the converging worlds of media art, net art, activism, hacktivism, and independent news and research. The categories are clearly not hard and fast, but just my personal way of making some sort of order out of this huge list!
TACTICAL MEDIA SITES
IRATIONAL - prolific net pranksters, whose projects range from fake loyalty cards of English supermarkets to subversion of genetic engineering projects
http://www.irational.org/
NEGATIVLAND - US sound group/band who are infamous for their strategic sampling/plagiarism of icons such as U2 and Beck. This site contains an arcive of much of their work, and excellent links to sites and articles on copyright/copy-left, intellectual property, open source and free software ideas. http://www.negativland.com/
CLEANSURFACE - International Grafitti Archive
http://www.cleansurface.org/
DESSERT STORM - History of Pieing
http://www.dessertstorm.org/http://www.make-world.org/
RTMark - art activist 'corporation' who plagiarise political and corporate sites, and fund activist media initiatives http://www.rtmark.com/
CRITICAL ART ENSEMBLE - a group of artists and theorists exploring the interactions between art, technology, radical politics and critical theory -- they also produce very interesting books on topics such as electronic civil disobedience and bio-engineering. http://www.critical-art.net/
SARAI MEDIA CENTRE - founded in New Delhi, India in 2001 SARAI is a physical and virtual media space for production, exchange and critique, focussing particularly on the South Asian region. SARAI produces an extensive reader each year, and by participating in the mailing list (accessible thru the website) users can help create the next publicationhttp://www.sarai.net
AlterNet.org is a project of the Independent Media Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening and supporting independent and alternative journalism. First launched in 1998, AlterNet's online magazine provides a mix of news, opinion and investigative journalism on subjects ranging from the environment, the drug war, technology and cultural trends to policy debate, sexual politics and health issues. The AlterNet article database includes more than 7,000 stories from over 200 sources. http://www.alternet.org/
The greenpepper is an environmental and social justice magazine, focusing on direct action and alternative lifestyles. It has existed for over 10 years in various guises. In the current guise, we aim to be as alternative as a magazine can get. The greenpepper challenges accepted perceptions of magazine production: there are no advertisements, no copyright, a consensus-based editorial and production process and no 'professional' writers. The magazine provides a forum for exchange of information on contemporary issues, concentrating especially on topics that are sidelined or distorted by the mass media. http://squat.net/cia/gp/greenpepper.htm
The Multinational Monitor is published monthly except bimonthly in January/February and July/August by Essential Information, Inc. It tracks corporate activity, especially in the Third World, focusing on the export of hazardous substances, worker health and safety, labour union issues and the environment. http://www.multinationalmonitor.org
SCHNEWS -- alternative news originating from the UK
http://www.schnews.org.uk/
THE HACKTIVIST - news and resources for hacktivist communities http://thehacktivist.com/thmag.html
ELECTRONIC DISTURBANCE THEATRE - developers of 'Floodnet' denial of service (DOS) software & Zapatista tribal port scan
http://pages.emerson.edu/faculty/m/maurice_methot/audiofornewmedia/%20http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/ecd.html
REFUGEE MEDIA SPACE Documentation of events at Woomera Detention Centre, and practical information for communicating with incarcerated asylum seekers. Excellent links page to other Australian refugee sites.
http://autonomous.org/refugee
McLIBEL - vast site dedicated to everything that happened during the 10 year court case where McDonalds sued 2 protesters for handing out anti-Mac leaflets -- this is one of the first sites which successfully utilised the intenet to gather worldwide support for an anti-globalisation issue http://www.mcspotlight.org/ http://motherjones.com/
NO-ONE IS ILLEGAL, FREE BORDER MOVEMENT
http://pages.emerson.edu/faculty/m/maurice_methot/audiofornewmedia/%20http://www.antimedia.net/data
http://www.antimedia.net/xborder
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
ÒHuman Rights Watch is dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world. We stand with victims and activists to prevent discrimination, to uphold political freedom, to protect people from inhumane conduct in wartime, and to bring offenders to justice. We investigate and expose human rights violations and hold abusers accountable. We challenge governments and those who hold power to end abusive practices and respect international human rights law. We enlist the public and the international community to support the cause of human rights for all. Human Rights Watch is an independent, non-governmental organization, supported by contributions from private individuals and foundations worldwide. It accepts no government funds, directly or indirectly.Ó http://www.hrw.org/
FREESPEECH - international alternative news site
http://www.freespeech.org/
REPORTERS WITHOUT FRONTIERS
http://www.rsf.fr/
CULT OF THE DEAD COW
http://www.cultdeadcow.com/
NO LOGO - beyond globalisation. Website arising out of the interested in Naomi KleinÕs book ÒNo LogoÓ. http://www.nologo.org/
ELECTRONIC PRIVACY - news and updates on issues surrounding surveillance, privacy, invasion of data bodies etc http://www.privacy.org
SOME INDIGENOUS & ENVIRONMENTAL SITES I
RATIWANTI - THE POSION, LEAVE IT! created by the Irati Wanti Campaign Office with the Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta, the Senior Aboriginal Women from Kupa Piti in South Australia, who are fighting the proposed national and international nuclear waste dump on their traditional lands http://iratiwanti.org/
KEEPERS OF LAKE EYRE - documentation of the anti-uranium fight in the Australian desert by the Arabunna people and the supporters
http://www.lakeeyre.green.net.au/kole_pages.html
LIVE FROM THE TUNDRA Inuit and non-Inuit inhabitants of a remote outpost camp on Canada_s Baffin Island are sending daily audio and video dispatches during August 2001 http://www.nunatinnit.net%20cybertribe/, an Indigenous Online Gallery http://www.fineartforum.org/Gallery/cybertribe.html
PR WATCH http://www.prwatch.org/
Software to send bulk emails of protest and concern to aussie pollies http://senatorslapper.netfirms.com/software.htm
ONLINE MAGAZINES & NET ART/NEW MEDIA MAILING LISTS:
MUTE Magazine - a print and online critical magazine http://www.metamute.com/
OLD BOYS NETWORK (OBN) playful/serious mailing list and website of people who identify as female http://www.obn.org/
NETTIME - seminal mailing list and archived website version for new media art and alternative media makers, theorists, curators and critics http://www.nettime.org
EMPYRE - an arena for the discussion of media arts practice http://www.subtle.net/empyre/
BRILLO - out of 'print' but archive remains -- art, artists, movements http://www.brillomag.net/
CRUMB - Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss, a website for those who exhibit, organise, archive or make new media art http://www.newmedia.sunderland.ac.uk/crumb/
FACES - mailing list and web archive focussing on women who use new media http://faces.vis-med.ac.at/
NEW MEDIA PROJECT PORTALS
trAce International Online Writing Centre, Nottingham, UK Possibly the most comprehensive online writing resource, featuring an extensive archive of artists and writers, plus online writing courses, conferences and events http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/
The Thing - international network of artist-run servers initiated by Wolfgang Staele, featuring links to numerous artists projects, specific mailing lists, streaming video and audio archives http://www.thing.net
ART FOR NETWORKS - BBC net art site curated by I/O/D (webstalker) member Simon Pope featuring interviews, streaming audio and links to special projects: http://www.bbc.co.uk/artzone/artfornetworks
CONEXIîN REMOTA - new online show of political art made specifically for the internet, curated by Roberta Bosco and Stefano Caldo for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona -- this show includes links to the work of the Surveillance Camera Players, Andy Cox and Antonio Muntadas. http://www.macba.es/english/09/conexion_remota.html
ASSEMBLAGE, the Online Women's New Media Gallery, features a phenomenal collection of writing and art created specifically for the net http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/traced/guertin/assemblage.htm
"SHOPPING WINDOWS - ART AFTER THE AGE OF E-COMMERCE" PART II : 4 new works commissioned by Telepolis http://www.telepolis.de/tp/english/kunst/nk/shopping/default.html
ESPECIALES - from El Pais, a special on net art (in spanish), with easy-to-follow links to net art projects created in the past 5 years. http://www.elpais.es/especiales/2001/arte/histo.htm
VIRTUAL ARTISTS - Australian artist run server http://va.com.au%20autonomous.org/
Reload 2002 first online exhibition at the Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum http://www.istanbulmuseum.org/reload/
ADBUSTERS - also a print magazine, this is a site where renegade graphic designers, culture jammers, collagists and others feature their efforts in spinning alternative meanings to the media landscape http://www.adbusters.org/
DEPORTATION CLASS - using the format of an advertisement to raise issules about immigration and human rights http://www.deportation-class.com/
KONSTRUKTO - Australian political satire e-zine by AndyPC http://konstrukto.va.com.au
SOME SELECTED ARTISTS' PROJECTS
Rich Air by Shu Lea Cheang. In a fictional "After the crash" scenario, organic garlic is recently ordained as new social currency, serving as "credito" for the global shared network in common exchange. 10,000 garlic plants cultivated by organic farmer Tovey Halleck in the span of 10 years in upstate New York were harvested by crew hands this summer. On September 1st, we launch garlic credito trading system at rich-air.com where items include digital bytes, bandwidth, domains, URLs, network, system and softwares are posted for virtual garlic trade. http://www.rich-air.com%20/
Kingdom of Piracy. A group of new projects launched in Sept 2002. http://www.aec.at/kop
NET.ART GENERATOR - a conceptual/political/software art intervention by Cornelia Sollfrank - "A smart artist makes the machine do the work" http://www.obn.org/generator
RACHEL BAKER/irational - 3 of her projects, including one utilising SMS mobile phone message technology to develop social networks amongst football fans! http://wwwambernectar.com/tigertxt http://www.irational.org/tm/pdfhttp://www.tmselector.net%20/
MENISCUS - by John Tonkin - web-based interactives built (with various programming languages to allow processing of data entered by users) exploring ideas related to subjectivity, scientific belief systems and the body http://www.johnt.org/
GashGirl doll yoko liQuid_naTion ( my site :-> ) http://sysx.org/gashgirl POTATOLAND - American artist Mark Napier has developed a number of software programs such as RIOT and WEBSHREDDER that deconstruct and reconstruct websites -- you can spend a long time playing around here! http://www.potatoland.org/
FAKESHOP - based in New York, the fakeshop group were one of the earliest explorers of aesthetic and narrative possibilities of the CU-See Me web tv interface. Creating a series of performances in the soft space of the net and simultaneously in the hard space of warehouse environments, they have developed a distinctive take on low-band video. http://www.fakeshop.com/
FIFTY/FIFTY - eclectic and friendly group of artists, programmers, musicians, graphic designers based in Barcelona, Spain, who come together to run workshops, produce CDs, organise alternative experimental sound and visual events http://www.fiftyfifty.org/
IDENTITY RUNNERS - counter hallucinations to society's command and control operational matrix http://www.z.parsons.edu/~ludin/final_pages/indexold.html
DAKOTA - one of a series of dynamic poetic narratives by Korean artist Young-hae Chang http://www.yhchang.com/DAKOTA.html
Warriors of Perception Ð an art project built on the freenet platform http://candida.thing.net/warriors/
WHAT WAS HE THINKING ABOUT...? poetic project about 4 emotional atmospheres linked to 4 european cities by Igor Stromjer http://www2.arnes.si/~ljintima1/city
JODI - early and continual innovators of playful browser interface interventions by Joan
Heemsmerk and Dirk Paesmans http://www.jodi.org/
VUK COSIC - net art trickster and ASCII art innovator http://www.ljudmila.org/~vuk
0100101110101101.ORG - plagiarists and conceptual artists whose latest project 'life_sharing' makes the contents of their working computer's hard drive available to internet users for an entire year http://www.0100101110101101.org/
The Great Game by John Klima is a Java applet consisting of a realtime 3d terrain map of the Afghanistan region, depicting munitions, aircraft, targets, and troop movements for each day of the conflict. The Artist culls by hand the daily data from Department of Defense press briefings. Available information regarding type, quantity, and location of munitions and strikes are represented by play pieces created by the Artist from military diagrams. The Artist created the game board from raw ascii elevation data, also supplied by the military. Every 60 seconds a new day is downloaded and displayed on the map, the previous day's play pieces are cleared from the board and a new day commences. http://www.cityarts.com/greatgame/
FEMMEBOTS - database and projects of Aussie dj & hiphop chicks
http://www.femmebots.com/
MINMEGA - italian technival crew who develop and use interesting softwares such as 'sparaconcetti' (shoot concept) for image and text manipulation in rave/free parties contexts http://www.minmega.tv
HASCIICAM - free software for the LINUX platform developed by a young italian programmer named jaromil to enable live ascii video on the web. It captures video from tv card, recodes it into ASCII format, then outputs to the web as an HTML page which continually refreshes.
http://ascii.dyne.org/
FALLOUT - net audio projects
http://www.fallout.org.uk
SOFTWARE & P2P - PEER-TO-PEER sites
GNU - philosophy of GNU General Public Licence / Gnutella free operating system developed initially by Richard Stallman http://www.gnu.org FREE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION http://www.fsf.org/gnu/manifesto.html
HISTORY OF OPEN SOURCE
http://www.opensource.org
Morpheus - a peer-to-peer audio file exchange tool
http://www.musiccity.com
Anti-Virus Download Site Ð freeware and shopware
http://download.com.com/3120-20-0.html?qt=Antivirus&tg=dl-20
Short History of the Internet by Bruce Sterling
http://w3.aces.uiuc.edu/AIM/scale/nethistory.html
HTML Learning Resources Basic HTML from Lycos. HTML is a simple, universal mark-up language that allows people to create complex web pages.
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/
link pages.emerson.edu
