User:Dusan Barok

Works

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

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

ArtWiki

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

Société Anonyme

In preparation.

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

Prototyping

• Markov Chain
• more to come

Grey foo

http://delicious.com/lolcathost

Contact

db at societyofalgorithm dot org