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==Bio==
==Works==
Right now I'm keen on diving into SuperCollider software; spoken written Dutch; more writing talking thinking about media culture; and playing a piano.
<div style='float:right'>[[File:Faceleaks.logo.png|frameless|100px|link=User:Dusan_Barok/FaceLeaks]]  [[File:Rig.jpg|frameless|150px|link=User:Dusan_Barok/Rig]] </div>
===Monoskop library===
Work in progress.<br>
[[User:Dusan_Barok/Monoskop_library_(project_proposal)|Project proposal]].<br>
[[User:Dusan_Barok/Monoskop_library,_2012|Summary]].<br>
[http://monoskop.org/symposium Event: Unlimited Editions], TENT Rotterdam, July 5, 2012.


Running [http://multiplace.org/wiki/doku.php?id=server Sanchez] free art server, talk to me if you like to have anything hosted!
===Rig===
Bitcoin mining rig exhibited as a readymade in July 2011.


Last years i've been researching media arts and culture in East/Central Europe in 1960s-90s.
[[User:Dusan Barok/Rig|Project page]]


==Sites==
* http://3hoursold.tumblr.com/page/4
* http://www.flickr.com/photos/51815608@N07/page2/
* http://www.last.fm/user/veriveri
==Projects==
===FaceLeaks===
===FaceLeaks===
''Leak your friends.''<br>
Firefox/Chrome browser add-on which attaches a leak button to Facebook photos, allowing user to leak them to http://faceleaks.info website. <br>
''Anonymously.''
Launched in December 2010.


FaceLeaks is a Firefox/Chrome browser add-on which attaches a ''leak'' button to Facebook photos, allowing user to leak them to http://www.faceleaks.info website.
[[User:Dusan Barok/FaceLeaks|Project page]]


Launched in December 2010 at [http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/rebelhuis/student/dusan/index.html Rebelhuis] Piet Zwart Institute student show at Ace Teleboutique in Rotterdam.
==Essays==


; Next
===Forking Piracy===
12 January 2011: featured at [http://www.artzilla.org/add-ons/faceleaks/ Artzilla.org] website.
Written in May-June 2012.


22 March: the software was open-sourced and is available for forking, remaking and remixing at http://gitorious.org/faceleaks/
Keywords: politics, pirate politics, file sharing, cultural flatrate, The Pirate Bay, Pirate Party, Germany, Sweden.


9 April: Add-on was reviewed and approved by Mozilla Add-ons editor and besides its [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/faceleaks/ add-ons gallery] now it also appears in search results and categories.
===Bitcoin: censorship-resistant currency and domain name system to the people===
Exploration of distributed currency. <br>
Written in May-July 2011.


14-17 April: exhibited at [http://www.festival-enter.cz/en/category/exhibition Enter: Datapolis], 5th art-science-technology biennale in Prague, Czech Republic.
Keywords: Bitcoin, Namecoin, Electronic Frontier Foundation, WikiLeaks, cypherpunks, free software, cryptography, censorship, free speech, anonymity, transparency, decentralisation, peer-to-peer, economy, domain name system.


As of April, Firefox version counted more than [http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/faceleaks/ 400 installs].
[[User:Dusan Barok/Bitcoin: censorship-resistant currency and domain name system to the people|Paper]]<br>
[[User:Dusan Barok/Bitcoin bits, trivia and anecdotes‎|Research material]]


==Essays==
===Privatising Privacy: Trojan Horse in Free Open Source Distributed Social Platforms===
===Sourced in, unsourced out: Leaking as the common knowledge production===
Critique of social graph.<br>
Written in February-May 2011.


Essay on Wikileaks' and Wikipedia's seemingly incompatible models of common knowledge production.
Keywords: social graph, Diaspora, StatusNet, Facebook, Google, network based marketing, online advertising, social media, federated social networks.


Written on November-December 2010, almost completely rewritten in May 2011.
[[User:Dusan Barok/Privatising Privacy: Trojan Horse in Free Open Source Distributed Social Platforms|Paper and research material]]


Essay: [[Media:Dusan.essay.trimester-1.Tactics-of-Leaking.finale.pdf|Download]]
===Sourced in, unsourced out: Leaking as the common knowledge production===
Essay on Wikileaks' and Wikipedia's seemingly incompatible models of common knowledge production. <br>
Written in November-December 2010, rewritten in May 2011.


===Like Powered Census===
Keywords: Wikipedia, commons, WikiLeaks, knowledge production.


The critique of social graph, written on February-April 2011.
[http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/mediawiki/images/6/6f/Dusan.essay.trimester-1.Tactics-of-Leaking.finale.pdf PDF]


; Abstract
===Web Time===
In recent years, social graph surfaced as the representation of how people are present on the web and how they are related to each other, on a global scale. It is generated by user activity on a wide range of social networking sites. Being offered the privacy control settings within the network, the users "perform their privacy" and voluntarily feed in the content designated solely for their peers. This creates not only "walled gardens" of closed systems, but more importantly, "privacy lock-in" for users who are left to demand protection of their personal data.
Short essay considering the variable of time as a building material for web infrastructure. <br>
Submitted as a part of school application in May 2010.


By creating a problematic private/public divide, the network owners are justified to take upon the role of protector, "privatise" the private data and enclose the social graph generated in this way. The owners extract the value and monetise these data sets particularly through direct marketing and social commerce by renting data to advertisers and social applications developers.
[http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/mediawiki/images/d/d6/Barok.Web-Time.pdf PDF]


They also keep control over access to social graph because it serves as their competitive advantage. This process has created the asymmetric power relations, leading to establishment of an oligarchy of social graph owners, particularly Google and Microsoft-backed Facebook, who now dominate the social web. Contrary to the economic means of these companies to make social graph a scarce commodity and acquire value, World Wide Web Consortium released RDF protocol which in combination with FOAF and XFN standards provides an open architecture for social graph as a public good.
==Side projects==
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===La Société Anonyme===
Launch of the first LSA initiative, ''The SKOR Record'': July 12, 2012, [http://www.skor.nl/nl/persbericht?m=26164 SKOR, Amsterdam].


After examining the series of events revealing the competition between Facebook and Google over social graph control, and taking a brief look into open standards, the talk will question the very ideology of social graph as an extension of centuries old mechanism of census, viewing it as a technology of power.
===ArtWiki===
An open platform for artists to share artist biographies as a free and open historiography for contemporary art. http://artwiki.org


; Keywords
===Monoskop/log===
census, facebook, google, network based marketing, online advertising, social graph, social media
Living archive of writings on art, culture and media technology. http://monoskop.org/log


; Bibliography
===Sanchez===
http://www.mendeley.com/groups/1060921/social-graph/papers/title/0/
Free art server. http://multiplace.org/wiki/doku.php?id=server


Reading notes (in ''.bib'' format): http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/~dbarok/social-graph-annotations.bib
==Grey foo==
http://delicious.com/lolcathost


; Next
==Contact==
13 May 2011: Essay was presented and expanded at [http://liwoli.at/programm/2011 Art Meets Radical Openness (Linuxwochen Linz 2011)] festival  within the Plutonian Striptease programme moderated by Marloes de Valk.<br>
db at societyofalgorithm dot org
Talk: [[Media:Dusan.talk.Like-Powered-Census.LiWoLi-May-2011.pdf|Download]]


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Works

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Monoskop library

Work in progress.
Project proposal.
Summary.
Event: Unlimited Editions, TENT Rotterdam, July 5, 2012.

Rig

Bitcoin mining rig exhibited as a readymade in July 2011.

Project page

FaceLeaks

Firefox/Chrome browser add-on which attaches a leak button to Facebook photos, allowing user to leak them to http://faceleaks.info website.
Launched in December 2010.

Project page

Essays

Forking Piracy

Written in May-June 2012.

Keywords: politics, pirate politics, file sharing, cultural flatrate, The Pirate Bay, Pirate Party, Germany, Sweden.

Bitcoin: censorship-resistant currency and domain name system to the people

Exploration of distributed currency.
Written in May-July 2011.

Keywords: Bitcoin, Namecoin, Electronic Frontier Foundation, WikiLeaks, cypherpunks, free software, cryptography, censorship, free speech, anonymity, transparency, decentralisation, peer-to-peer, economy, domain name system.

Paper
Research material

Privatising Privacy: Trojan Horse in Free Open Source Distributed Social Platforms

Critique of social graph.
Written in February-May 2011.

Keywords: social graph, Diaspora, StatusNet, Facebook, Google, network based marketing, online advertising, social media, federated social networks.

Paper and research material

Sourced in, unsourced out: Leaking as the common knowledge production

Essay on Wikileaks' and Wikipedia's seemingly incompatible models of common knowledge production.
Written in November-December 2010, rewritten in May 2011.

Keywords: Wikipedia, commons, WikiLeaks, knowledge production.

PDF

Web Time

Short essay considering the variable of time as a building material for web infrastructure.
Submitted as a part of school application in May 2010.

PDF

Side projects

Image.jpg

La Société Anonyme

Launch of the first LSA initiative, The SKOR Record: July 12, 2012, SKOR, Amsterdam.

ArtWiki

An open platform for artists to share artist biographies as a free and open historiography for contemporary art. http://artwiki.org

Monoskop/log

Living archive of writings on art, culture and media technology. http://monoskop.org/log

Sanchez

Free art server. http://multiplace.org/wiki/doku.php?id=server

Grey foo

http://delicious.com/lolcathost

Contact

db at societyofalgorithm dot org

 

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