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Lo que más ha cambiado en estos 20 años, sin duda, no tiene nada que
ver con el aspecto técnico. El fin de la creación de estos virus ha
variado radicalmente. Anteriormente los virus no tenían otra función
más que su propia difusión y la experimentación con los códigos.
Cuanto más pudiesen infectar y más atención le prestaran los medios,
mayor el regocijo y reconocimiento para el creador del software
maligno. Desde hace pocos años se viene observando una alianza
estratégica entre estos creadores de virus, capaces de esparcir
código malicioso por millones de sistemas Windows, y los spammers,
que necesitan que ese código malicioso se difunda para poder enviar
más eficazmente sus correos a millones de buzones.

Gran articulo sobre la historia de los virus, el texto completo en: Virus: 20 años no es nada… ¿o sí?

The Net as an Artwork | Tatiana Bazzichelli
The book represents a first tentative reconstruction of the history of artistic networking in Italy, through an analysis of the realities which during the past twenty years have given way to a creative, shared and aware use of technologies, from video to computers, contributing to the formation of Italian hacker communities.

Written by Tatiana Bazzichelli, with the preface of Derrick De Kerckhove and the epilogue of the videoartist Simonetta Fadda.

Networking means to create nets of relations, by sharing experiences and ideas in order to communicate and experiment artistically and where the publisher and the reader, the artist and the public, act on the same level.

In Italy, thanks to the alternative use of Internet, during the past twenty years of experimentation a vast national network of people who share political, cultural and artistic views has been formed. Active in underground environments, these projects use diverse media (computers, video, television, radio and magazines) and deal with technological experimentation, or hacktivism, depending on the terminology used in Italy, where the political component is a central theme.
The Italian network proposes a form of critical information, diffused through independent and collective projects where the idea of freedom of expression is also a central theme.

The book describes the evolution of the italian hacktiviam and net culture from the Eighties till today. At the same time, it builds a reflection on the new role of the artist and author who become networker, operating in collective nets, reconnecting to neoavant-garde artistic practices of the 1960’s (first and foremost Fluxus), but also Mail art, Neoism and Luther Blissett.

A path which began in BBS, alternative web platforms diffused in Italy half way through the 1980’s even before Internet even existed, and then moved on to Hackmeetings, to Telestreet and networking art of different artists such as 0100101110101101.ORG, [epidemiC], Jaromil, Giacomo Verde, Giovanotti Mondani Meccanici, Correnti Magnetiche, Candida TV, Tommaso Tozzi, Federico Bucalossi, Massimo Contrasto, Mariano Equizzi, Pigreca, Molleindustria, Guerriglia Marketing, Sexyshock, Phag Off and many others.

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Bio Mapping - Christian Nold

Biomapping Brixton-How do you feel about the area that you live in? Which areas do you have a physical and emotional response to? The Hayward are running workshops with artist Christian Nold to create bio maps of areas in Brixton and Clapham. These workshops are FREE and promise to be a fascinating insight into your community

The Bio Mapping tool allows the wearer to record their Galvanic Skin Response (GSR), which is a simple indicator of emotional arousal, in conjunction with their geographical location. This can be used to plot a map that highlights points of high and low arousal. By sharing this data we can construct maps that visualise where we as a community feel stressed and excited. These workshops involve a walk around the area followed by a download session where your physical responses are downloaded and mapped on Google Earth.

Carts of Brooklyn Racing Association

Es cierto una carrera de carros de supermercado!!!! idiotarod

PureData Convention - August 21st-26th 2007

The PureData Convention 07 will bring together artists, developers and theoreticians who develop, use and reflect on PureData. It will acknowledge the broad range of artistic disciplines that make use of the software and will address questions of openness and accessibility. It will provide a theoretical context for the understanding of media art practices that engage in the aesthetics and politics of Free Open Source Software Culture.

About the Convention
Call for Proposals
Application Form

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24 horas contra la censura en Internet / RSF

En la página de la nasa publicaron un applet de java que permite ver en tiempo real la localización de un gran número de satélites orbitando la tierra

NASA - Science@NASA J-Track 3D

Turbulence.org and New Media Fix (http://newmediafix.net) are pleased to announce the publication of “3 X 3: New Media Fix(es) on Turbulence,” three texts about works from the Turbulence.org archive. The texts–published in English, Italian and Spanish–were written and translated by members and affiliates of New Media Fix. They include “The Body in Turbulence” by Josephine Bosma; “Narrating with New Media: What Happened with Whatever has Happened?” by Belén Gache; and “Turbulence: Remixes Bonus Beats” by Eduardo Navas. The translations are by Lucrezia Cippitelli, Francesca De Nicolò, Raquel Herrera, Brenda Banda Corona & Ignacio Nieto. Ludmil Trenkov designed the PDF and HTML documents.

Luego de una intensa búsqueda randomlab cambió de servidor pero como en todo trasteo se perdieron algunas cosas, entre ellas el contenido de este blog, estoy buscando la manera de recuperar los post pasados ya veremos si lo logro.

Por ahora, sean bienvenidos al nuevo server de randomlab, y esperen soon nuevas cosas.

UPDATE luego de un rato de googling encontré la manera de migrar el contenido del pasado servidor a el nuevo