Contributors to Social Hacking

The Institute for Applied Autonomy (USA) was founded in 1998 as an anonymous collective of engineers, designers, artists and activists. The group’s stated mission is to develop technologies that extend the autonomy of human activists in the performance of real-world, public acts of expression. The diminishing accessibility of public spaces for free expression and the increased omni-presence of electronic surveillance has been a key motivation for IAA research. The results have included an ultra-cute robot designed for targeted distribution of subversive literature and a small tele-operated robot designed for high-speed graffiti deployment from a remote location. The project called i-See is a web-based navigation service that allows users to avoid surveillance altogether by providing them with the path of least surveillance to their destination. Current research is focused on expanding the i-See software to serve as an open-source web-based map server and data collection tool.
http://www.appliedautonomy.com/

c6 is a London based group established in 1997 with much experience in subverting art spaces,digital spaces and public spaces, usually all together at the same time. They borrow strategies and tools from graffiti, DIY eco punk and activism and yet they are like none of them.They have been defined as art wankers, outsiders, pranksters, tactical artists, guerrilla marketers, chaotic instigators of subversion, art terrorists, mind openers. Through range of projects and collaborations, C6 investigates new ideas around dataspaces, computational processes, software and code as a critical and creative practice in the context of network culture and open environment where art and political action inform each other rather than being conflated with one another.
http://c6.org/

Ludic Society(founded 2005 by Jahrmann/ Moswitzer/P.M.Ong) is an international association of artists, game practitioners and theorists who seek to provoke a new artistic research discipline, 'ludics'. The founding members of the Ludic Society Margarete Jahrmann and Max Moswitzer collaborate on Real Plays in real cities, on game arts and are strongly interested in real world objects for play, uselessness and the role of ´pata Dada in contemporary ludic societies device art.

In 2003 they were awarded a prix ars electronica distinction in interactive arts and in 2004 in the software art award at transmediale Berlin. Both lecture in the Game Design department of the university of Arts and Design Zurich. They are the editors of the LS magazine, exhibit and publish frequently: In 2006 they held a performative keynote speech at the game studies conference 'Gaming Realities' in Athens, exhibited the game art clip 'le parcour score' and participated at Arco at Medialab Madrid, as well as at the 'Device Art' show at conteiner.org gallery Zagreb and San Francisco. In 2007 they will show at the World Games of the newly opened Laboral Art Center Gijon, Spain and prepare an evening of the LS at the DEAF Rotterdam. Actual shows are a participation with the Pong-Dress, www.ludic.priv.at at the Mythos Pong exhibition, Computerspiele Museum Berlin (Stuttgart/ Bern) and with nybble-engine at art_clips edition ZKM.

The Ludic Society magazine is published as a periodical with international articles on tendencies relating to jouissance - enjoyment and suspense and jeu - game.

Issue #1 is devoted to the phenomenon of new bachelor machines, Graz/Madrid 2005.
Issue # 2 is devoted to Real Players. Vienna/Zurich 2006.
Issue # 3 appears in 2007 on the phenomenon of tagging games in real cities.

http://www.ludic-society.net/

Also see project related website at: http://www.ludic-society.net/tagged/

Mikro Orchestra Project (since 2001, Poland) is an experimental audio-visual project based on the use of the GameBoy console as a musical instrument. The Gameboyzz Orchestra Project has performed at a number of venues including WRO Media Art Biennale, Wroclaw; Read_Me festival, Moscow; Unplugged, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz; Warsaw Electronic Festival; Microscopesession, Festspielhaus Hellerau, Dresden; Paris/Creteil; and Club transmediale.03, Berlin. Gameboyzz Orchestra Project is supported by WRO Center for Media Art, Wroclaw, Poland.
http://mikroorchestra.com/

Saul Albert, (London) works with other people to make events, software, organisations and things which are not-just-art. He also writes, usually conversationally, on many mailing lists and wikis. He works with networks and groups such as the The People Speak (http://www.theps.net), The University of Openess (http://uo.twenteenthcentury.com), Dorkbot (http://dorkbot.org) the Espians, the Open Knowledge Foundation, the World Summit on Free Information Infrastructures (wsfii.org), and many others. He is based in the Boxing Club of Limehouse Town Hall in East London (http://bclub.org.uk). His current interests are media metadata and the semantic web, critiques of participatory art/democracy/culture/technology, and personal neologisms.
contact: saul@theps.net
http://www.twenteenthcentury.com/saulcv

McKenzie Wark is Professor of Cultural and Media Studies at Lang College, New School University. He is the author of several books, most recently Dispositions and A Hacker Manifesto.
http://www.ludiccrew.org/wark/

Tetine, formed in 1995 in São Paulo, Brazil by artists Eliete Mejorado and Bruno Verner & infused with a contemporary Brazilian radicalism that pushes the boundaries of a hybrid vocabulary, Tetine have created a multitude of music & performance works from the spoken word to electronica, including ritualistic performances, films and video. Their debut album Alexander's Grave was released in 1996 on their own label High School Records. In January 2000, Tetine established themselves in the UK, firstly as resident artists at Queen Mary University in London where they put out the CD Olha Ela De Novo (Here She‚s Again) their last release with High School. Later in 2001, Tetine is signed by avant-garde electronica artist Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner's UK imprint Sulphur Records and released their 4th album entitled Tetine vs Sophie Calle - Samba de Monalisa - an acclaimed collaborative electronica project with the French artist Sophie Calle. In 2005 Tetine toured around Europe, Brazil and made their USA debut at M3 Summit - part of Miami Music Conference. Later on, Tetine release The Sexual Life of The Savages on Soul Jazz Records an acclaimed album of obscure early 80's underground post punk from São Paulo selceted and curated by the band.
In 2006 Tetine play a special concert at the opening night of TROPICALIA - A Revolution in Brazilian Culture - at Barbican Centre in London alongside Brazilian multi-artist Assume Vivid Astrofocus. To celebrate the occasion Tetine releases a 500 limited edition CD entitled L.I.C.K. MY FAVELA (Slum Dunk Music). Still in 2006, Tetine take part at Ether 06 on a programme curated by Ladytron at South Bank Centre at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London alongside artists such as Chris Cunningham, Candie Hank amongst others. Performances include L.I.C.K MY FAVELA live at Palais De Tokyo in Paris, The Wire's Adventures In Modern Music festival in Chicago, Museu Serralves, Liverpool Biennal amongst others. Tetine also host a weekly radio show named Slum Dunk on Resonance Fm 104.4 on Brzilian experimental, electronic music from the slums, hills and beyond for the past three years.
http://www.tetine.net/

The Pirate University is a self-institution, created and run by students at The University of Plymouth, designed to facilitate the free exchange of their skills and knowledge. Drawing inspiration from other free universities (such as the University of Openness), the project is a social comment on the increasing commodification of education.The Pirate Univrsity are Ryan Allahiq, Stephen-lee Farmer, Kerry Francis, Dan Hunter, Dionysios Manganis, Mario Michelli, Duncan Shingleton, John-George Smeaton, Ben Tompsett, John Wilkie.
http://www.pirate-university.org/

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