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SKIN, BODY AND CODE AS THE NEW SUBJECT OF HACTIVISM
Anna MAJ1
Informational and Cultural Challenges
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (104-105) 2020, Publication date: 15 June 2020
Keywords: artistic strategies, hacking, hacktivism, ubicomp, cyberarts, wearable technologies, sousveillance, body hacking, biological surveillance, biotraces, data extraction
Abstract The paper shows certain contemporary artistic strategies of resistance, based on hacking and hacktivism, which subject is skin, body and code. Author distinguishes such strategies as: 1) hacking of wearable technologies and sousveillance, 2) hacking of bodies and biological surveillance, and 3) humorous elaboration of ubicomp. Some chosen examples from the field of cyberarts disclose the complexity of artistic process and new forms of creativity, where the information tools and knowledge of programming become the fundamental means of artistic creation.
Zakład Komunikacji Kulturowej Instytutu Nauk o Kulturze i Studiów Interdyscyplinarnych Wydziału Filologicznego Uniwersytetu Śląskiego w Katowicach, Polska
E-mail: anna.maj@us.edu.pl