User:Dusan Barok
Works
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Rig
Bitcoin mining rig exhibited as a readymade in July 2011.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
