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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.
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===Rig===
Bitcoin mining rig exhibited as a readymade in July 2011.


Running [http://multiplace.org/wiki/doku.php?id=server Sanchez] free art server, talk to me if you like to have anything hosted!
[[User:Dusan Barok/Rig|Project page]]


Last years i've been researching media arts and culture in East/Central Europe in 1960s-90s.
==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
12 January 2011: featured at [http://www.artzilla.org/add-ons/faceleaks/ Artzilla.org] website.
 
22 March: the software was open-sourced and is available for forking, remaking and remixing at http://gitorious.org/faceleaks/


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===
The 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===
===The Web Time===
The critique of social graph.<br>
Written in February-May 2011.


Short essay considering the variable of time as the building material for web infrastructure. Submitted as a part of school application in May 2010.
Keywords: social graph, Diaspora, StatusNet, Facebook, Google, network based marketing, online advertising, social media, federated social networks.


[[Media:Barok.Web-Time.pdf|PDF]]
[[User:Dusan Barok/Privatising Privacy: Trojan Horse in Free Open Source Distributed Social Platforms|Paper and research material]]


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


Essay on Wikileaks' and Wikipedia's seemingly incompatible models of common knowledge production.
Keywords: Wikipedia, commons, WikiLeaks, knowledge production.


Written on November-December 2010, rewritten in May 2011.
[http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/mediawiki/images/6/6f/Dusan.essay.trimester-1.Tactics-of-Leaking.finale.pdf PDF]


[[Media:Dusan.essay.trimester-1.Tactics-of-Leaking.finale.pdf|PDF]]
===The Web Time===
Short essay considering the variable of time as the building material for web infrastructure. <br>
Submitted as a part of school application in May 2010.


===Privatising the Privacy: Trojan Horse in Free Open Source Distributed Social Platforms===
[http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/mediawiki/images/d/d6/Barok.Web-Time.pdf PDF]


The critique of social graph, written in February-May 2011.
==Side projects==
===Société Anonyme===
In preparation.


; Abstract
===Monoskop/log===
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.
Living archive of writings on art, culture and media technology. http://burundi.sk/monoskop/log


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


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.
==Prototyping==
 
* [[User:Dusan_Barok/Markov Chain|Markov Chain]]
Recent arrival of distributed/federated social networks (Diaspora, StatusNet) did not trigger the debate about implications of social graph and in most cases it was simply replicated as the network backbone. The essay concludes by questioning the potentiality of open sourcing the social graph.
* more to come
 
; Keywords
social graph, diaspora, statusnet, facebook, google, network based marketing, online advertising, social media, federated social networks
 
; Essay
[[Media:Dusan.essay.trimester-2.Privatising-the-Privacy.pdf|PDF]]
 
; Bibliography
http://www.mendeley.com/groups/1060921/social-graph/papers/title/0/
 
Reading notes (in ''.bib'' format): http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/~dbarok/social-graph-annotations.bib
 
; Next
13 May 2011: Essay was presented and expanded under title "Like Powered Sensus" 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>
Talk: [[Media:Dusan.talk.Like-Powered-Census.LiWoLi-May-2011.pdf|PDF]]


==Prototyping==
==Contact==
*[[User:Dusan Barok/Markov Chain|Markov Chain]]
db at societyofalgorithm dot org


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Revision as of 20:35, 20 July 2011

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Works

Faceleaks.logo.png Rig.jpg

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

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

The 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

The 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

The Web Time

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

PDF

Side projects

Société Anonyme

In preparation.

Monoskop/log

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

Sanchez

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

Prototyping

Contact

db at societyofalgorithm dot org

 

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