[rohrpost] exhibition & reader :: System.hack()

[tomislav medak]

Multimedia Institute (http://www.mi2.hr, Zagreb, Croatia) invites you to
participate in the exhibition System.hack(), opened June 14-17 in a
hotel room in Zagreb. You can participate online at
http://www.systemhack.org/

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System.hack()
http://www.systemhack.org/
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// if using System.hack() syntax in programming a method hack would be
// invoked on the object System

A moment of excellence in programming is called hack. A perfect hack is
surprising, mediagenic, innovative in employing technology, funny and
non-violent. System.hack() is every hack that opens up a closed system
or makes an open system dynamic.

System.hack() exhibition seeks to find connections between moments of
excellence in different fields of human production. This exploration
always has to provide answers to the following two questions:

     * What system is being hacked?, and

     * How this system is being hacked, or what is a specific hack in an
individual work?

The exhibition environment is not a gallery, but the interior of a hotel
room. The hotel room is supposed to function as the lowest common
denominator of living environments users/viewers/visitors/readers
inhabit. The hotel room also functions as a Table of Contents for the
System.hack() book. Museum labels found on exhibited objects link
individual hacks to the essays dealing with issues they raise and social
context they intervene in.

Hacks exhibited:

* Orson Wells: The War of the Worlds
* Heath Bunting: Superweed kit
* John Draper: Captain Crunch whistle
* Richard Stallman: GNU General Public License
* Michael Steil: Linux on Xboxu
* unknown hacker: circumventing CD protection systems

Authors of essays in the book: Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Benjamin Mako Hill,
Marcell Mars, Tomislav Medak, Ognjen Strpic i McKenzie Wark

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Opening hours of the exhibition:
June 14: 19-21 hrs
June 15: 16-19 hrs
June 16: 16-19 hrs
June 17: 11-14 hrs

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Concept: Multimedijalni institut
Realization: Marcell Mars and Tomislav Medak
Creative support: Vuk Ćosić i What, How and for Whom/WHW

System.hack() is realized through the collaborative platform Zagreb -
Cultural Kapital of Europe 3000 (http://www.culturalkapital.org)

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The exhibition is realized with the assistance of Hotel Dubrovnik in Zagreb.

Zagreb - Cultural Kapital of Europe 3000 takes place in the framework of
projekt relations
relations - a project initiated by the German Federal Cultural Foundation
http://www.projekt-relations.de/

Kontakt. The Arts and Civil Society Program of Erste Bank Group in
Central Europe.