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The Prix Ars Electronica Archive is a collection enabling search and viewing of all the submissions since 1987. The award-winning projects are documented with catalogue texts and audio-visual media. All other submissions can be searched by title/artist and displayed with year, category in list form. Please cite the credits (artwork name, artist and photographer) and only use the materials if your article is related to Ars Electronica.
Newstweek
Julian Oliver,
Danja Vasiliev
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“Media is the nervous system of a democracy. If it’s not functioning well the democracy can’t function” (Jeff Cohen, Director of the Park Center for Independent Media)
_Newstweek_ is a device for manipulating the news read by other people on wireless hotspots. Built into a small and innocuous wall plug, the _Newstweek_ device appears as part of the local infrastructure. This allows agents to remotely edit news read on laptops, phones and tablets without their users knowing.
_Newstweek_ emerges as a symptom of our increasingly corporatized and mediated democratic reality. While news is increasingly read digitally, it still follows a traditional, top-down distribution model and thus often falls victim to the same political and corporate interests that have always sought to manipulate public opinion. _Newstweek_ intervenes in this model, providing an opportunity for citizens to have their turn at manipulating the media, “fixing facts” as they pass across a wireless network. In this way _Newstweek_ can be seen as a tactical device for altering public reality on a per-network basis.
_Newstweek_ also signals a word of caution, that a strictly media-defined reality is always a vulnerable reality. Today, as devices and their networks become ubiquitous, ignorance as to how they function increases, offering an opportunity for the manipulation of facts on their journey from source to destination (from server to screen).
Hotspots manipulable by _Newstweek_ include cafes, libraries, hotels, universities and city-wide wireless networks.
Links: http://newstweek.com/
_Newstweek_ is a device for manipulating the news read by other people on wireless hotspots. Built into a small and innocuous wall plug, the _Newstweek_ device appears as part of the local infrastructure. This allows agents to remotely edit news read on laptops, phones and tablets without their users knowing.
_Newstweek_ emerges as a symptom of our increasingly corporatized and mediated democratic reality. While news is increasingly read digitally, it still follows a traditional, top-down distribution model and thus often falls victim to the same political and corporate interests that have always sought to manipulate public opinion. _Newstweek_ intervenes in this model, providing an opportunity for citizens to have their turn at manipulating the media, “fixing facts” as they pass across a wireless network. In this way _Newstweek_ can be seen as a tactical device for altering public reality on a per-network basis.
_Newstweek_ also signals a word of caution, that a strictly media-defined reality is always a vulnerable reality. Today, as devices and their networks become ubiquitous, ignorance as to how they function increases, offering an opportunity for the manipulation of facts on their journey from source to destination (from server to screen).
Hotspots manipulable by _Newstweek_ include cafes, libraries, hotels, universities and city-wide wireless networks.
Links: http://newstweek.com/
Julian Oliver (NZ) has been active in the critical intersection of art and technology since 1998. His projects and the occasional paper have been presented at many museums, international electronic-art events and conferences, including the Tate Modern, Transmediale, Ars Electronica and the Japan Media Arts Festival. He is a long-time advocate of the use of free software in artistic production, distribution and education. http://julianoliver.com
Danja Vasiliev (RU). Working with diverse methods, technologies and materials Danja ridicules the contemporary love of digital life and questions the global tendency to cyborgination. The artist’s works are often described as technological interventions, whether they are hardware, software or conceptual pieces. http://k0a1a.net
Danja Vasiliev (RU). Working with diverse methods, technologies and materials Danja ridicules the contemporary love of digital life and questions the global tendency to cyborgination. The artist’s works are often described as technological interventions, whether they are hardware, software or conceptual pieces. http://k0a1a.net