Re: [NetBehaviour] César Escudero Andaluz. So many ways to mess up with surveillance capitalism. Interview with Regine Debatty.

2020-02-21 Thread Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour 
This is fantastic and on target and thanks! What do you think is the
relationship between bitcoin and art production today? And why is art
production re: bitcoin tied to the substrate?  For me,  probably wrongly,
the problematic economics tends to dominate the work itself - which is why
the slow machines etc. discussed are perfect!

On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 8:36 AM marc.garrett via NetBehaviour <
netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:

> César Escudero Andaluz. So many ways to mess up with surveillance
> capitalism. Interview with Regine Debatty.
>
> Back in 2016, César Escudero Andaluz and Martín Nadal hacked an old
> calculator and turned it into Bitttercoin “the worst Bitcoin miner ever”.
> Relying on a rudimentary technology, the machine takes an excruciatingly
> long time (estimated to an eternity) to validate the pending transactions
> in the blockchain. Meanwhile, the complex computational operations are
> printed on a seemingly endless scroll. I’ll be forever grateful to the two
> artists for creating a work that materialises so clearly the invisible
> calculations, physical dimension and ecological impact of blockchain
> technology. It’s one of those works that make your life easier when you
> have to explain an otherwise abstruse technological innovation.
>
> Today I’m interviewing César Escudero Andaluz (hopefully one day, i’ll get
> to talk with Martín Nadal as well!) César is doing a Ph.D at the Interface
> Cultures department, Kunstuniversität Linz. His practice as an artist and
> researcher investigates Human-Computer Interaction, interface criticism,
> digital culture and its social and political effects. Although it always
> has elements of playfulness and humour about it, his work is grounded in
> the kind of socio-political interrogations that make our time so
> infuriating and stimulating.
>
> The artist’s critical approach to technology can be found in works such as
> an orchestra of musical instruments that mine for Bitcoins, a 3D printable
> kit to cut undersea internet cables, a series of cassettes which audio
> emerges from the data extracted on the social media profiles of The Yes
> Men, Nuria Güell, Oliver Grau, Noam Chomsky, Alexei Shulgin, Lynn Hershman,
> Vuk Cosic, etc.
>
>
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[NetBehaviour] César Escudero Andaluz. So many ways to mess up with surveillance capitalism. Interview with Regine Debatty.

2020-02-21 Thread marc.garrett via NetBehaviour 
César Escudero Andaluz. So many ways to mess up with surveillance capitalism. 
Interview with Regine Debatty.

Back in 2016, César Escudero Andaluz and Martín Nadal hacked an old calculator 
and turned it into Bitttercoin “the worst Bitcoin miner ever”. Relying on a 
rudimentary technology, the machine takes an excruciatingly long time 
(estimated to an eternity) to validate the pending transactions in the 
blockchain. Meanwhile, the complex computational operations are printed on a 
seemingly endless scroll. I’ll be forever grateful to the two artists for 
creating a work that materialises so clearly the invisible calculations, 
physical dimension and ecological impact of blockchain technology. It’s one of 
those works that make your life easier when you have to explain an otherwise 
abstruse technological innovation.

Today I’m interviewing César Escudero Andaluz (hopefully one day, i’ll get to 
talk with Martín Nadal as well!) César is doing a Ph.D at the Interface 
Cultures department, Kunstuniversität Linz. His practice as an artist and 
researcher investigates Human-Computer Interaction, interface criticism, 
digital culture and its social and political effects. Although it always has 
elements of playfulness and humour about it, his work is grounded in the kind 
of socio-political interrogations that make our time so infuriating and 
stimulating.

The artist’s critical approach to technology can be found in works such as an 
orchestra of musical instruments that mine for Bitcoins, a 3D printable kit to 
cut undersea internet cables, a series of cassettes which audio emerges from 
the data extracted on the social media profiles of The Yes Men, Nuria Güell, 
Oliver Grau, Noam Chomsky, Alexei Shulgin, Lynn Hershman, Vuk Cosic, etc.

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