Rui Guerra
Rui Guerra (P/NL) has been writing software with a critical view on communities for several years. He holds a MSc in Computer Science, and is currently working on a MFA in New Media. Besides working and collaborating with several institutes in the Netherlands such as V2_, Virtueel Platform and the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, he is involved in open culture by initiating and organizing open events. In 2007, he initiated a self-organized, uncurated and open festival - unDEAF - as a satellite event of the Dutch Electronic Art Festival.
http://undeaf.v2.nl/RuiGuerra
www_hack (2008)
www_hack by Rui Guerra is a creative intervention onto Arnolfini's web site. A script installed on the host site allows all visitors to a single page to observe each others’ mouse movements at any one time. On a technical level, the work is based on a javascript that contacts a server where all the individual mouse positions are stored, displaying all the cursors in 'real-time'. Users experience the virtual presence of others, as controlled by a server. Web platforms are being promoted as a privileged arena for emerging communities and open collaborations. www_hack, on the other hand, aims at exposing the internal architecture of the web as well as the protocols that reflect a server client hegemony in which users are separated from information and from each other. The project demonstrates that the server-client relationship is not open as such, nor free from power structures. Indeed, all clients are subject to the 'dictatorship' of a server that is intrinsic to web architecture.
http://project.arnolfini.org.uk/www_hack/
