2024-06-06 –, NewYorck Room 3
Language: English
'The Art of Hacking' is a monograph published in 2021, on the intersections of hacker cultures and visual art. It's freely available on the link below, and it's based on my doctoral dissertation of the same title. It briefly touches upon the lack of FLINTA folks in the history of hacker cultures and speculates on another, alternative power structure in which they play the main role in the development of computers, instead of providing the infrastructure and not being credited for it. Webmachine is a python applet that is a manifestation of this speculation: a digital simulation of a Jacquard-loom, encrypting text to weaving. It was first presented at Siggraph 2020's Digital Power exhibition and was created in the first lockdown.
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What to bring to your session? –Please read p60 -67 and 171-172 of The Art of Hacking. I will bring printouts, too.
Juli Laczkó is an Amsterdam-based media artist and critical maker whose work appeared internationally from Leipzig, Vienna, Budapest, Zagreb, Bratislava to Istanbul and Nevada in group- and solo exhibitions. Her latest exhibition, 'Where we're at', explores the patterns of scavenging e-waste. Her research is informed by the intersection of visual arts and hacker culture. Her monograph titled ‘The Art of Hacking: Strategic Interactions between Hacker Culture and Visual Arts’ was published in 2021. She teaches at HKU's Image and Media Technology program.