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'''Useful links:'''<br>
[[A Guide to Essay Writing]]


[[Thesis Guidelines]]


===== Project proposal =====
Draft_ thesis skeleton:


[[User:User:Michaela/proposal/final | grad_proposal]]
=ABSTRACT=
<center>
The traces of digital information are exponential ...<br>
They contain various sources...<br>
They travel, scattered, being trade - transacted or serve as a found footage for an artistic
interventions...<br>
Traces of digital data are tangible. Events or evidences, which meant to be deleted from a system...<br>
they serve as a subject of recovery, revisit and exposure...''<br>
</center>


[[User:Michaela/Worklog | Notes on project proposal]]
==INTRO==


===== Useful texts/ annotations =====
temporary unavailable will be filled soon!


[[File:BEWARE OF THIS VIRUS…CONTACT US VOR VACCINATION.pdf|thumbnail|BEWARE OF THIS VIRUS…CONTACT US FOR VACCINATION]]


[[User:Michaela/Glitchy --- sorry can not link it!]]<br>
==CHAPTERS ==
Look at the pdf---> "BEWARE OF THIS VIRUS…CONTACT US FOR VACCINATION"<br>
/ a research text, written before Piet Zwart might be relevant to my research /


===== Influential texts =====
Grad_Skeleton:<br>
*Apsolutno and Revolver. The Absolute report. Springerin.
'''PART #1'''<br>
(time/ space/ code/memory)
              <'''ctrl + C / ctrl +V  chapter''' :.<br> 
*Steyerl, Hito. [http://www.e-flux.com/journal/in-defense-of-the-poor-image/ In defense of the poor Image e-flux]
              [[File:Esc key 2.jpg|frameless]]
*Luksch, Manu, Pate. Makul. "Faceless project" Voiceover
'''question:''' digital object and its properties what has change from analog to digital? <br>
*[http://kurenniemi.activearchives.org/logbook/?page_id=514 Activearchive_kurenniemi /Different orders coexist]
'''argument''': tangible and intangible properties of the digital object or the lost of the physicality makes it difficult to apply the same principles.<br>
use value and copy make hard to distinguish the copy from the original <br>
'''argument''':  digital object allows multiple copies of one single file, reproducing an accurate / exact copy of the original. Comparing with the analog object where every copy modifies the original.<br>
Moreover each copying of the copy introduce / induce noise to the copy and the original itself. The digital object inherited share and distribution value.  
<br>


=== draft ===
            <'''Del chapter''' :.<br>
expanded storage / the impossibility to delete the digital file / missing erase button  <br>
the extend of the storage / memory capacity to save, preserve and archive. <br>
Where the story of recovery of data from hard drives comes along ...<br>
analog with the anecdote about Ghana disclosure of data. <br>


name


Michaela Lakova
------------------------------


title


X
'''PART#2'''<br>


abstract = 250 words<br>
'''The problem#1'''
* The ethical issue / interfering privacy ?
theme: PRIVACY IN DIGITAL REALM <br>
The ethical issue I want to address is: who has the right to withdrawal someone's data and how this data could be used, reused or misused?<br>


'''The problem#2'''<br>
      <'''Shift chapter''':.
* The question of the ownership/ authorship? The problematic aspect of this data the project is less ethically charged, but instead it could go to a direction of who is the author/ share co-authorship.<br>
            [[File:Shift_key.jpg|frameless]]
'''question''': How the copyright low is used to constrain and mimic the properties of analog?
For example a digital file (pdf) is threaten the same way as a book.<br>
revisit the copyright law and break the myth of the ownership of digital file.<br>
'''argument''': Copyright enclosure is build on top of laws, applied to physical property. <br>
It can not be applied to the digital objects because of the nature of the digital and the listed properties.<br>
Please see --><br>
#REDIRECT [[User:Michaela/Understanding copyright/ copyleft /copyfarleft]]
<br>
'''Case_study:''' >[http://www.seditionart.com/ Sedition] – an online art platform for selling art where an edition of a hundred unique digital copies are offered for sell. <br>
"Limited edition of art for your digital life"<br>


'''intro = 500 word'''s<br>
This project is trigger by the idea of how the data trace is permanent, could not be destroyed or erased completely. It has been encapsulated within the time, the code and the medium itself.
How the act of data recovery and the reversed process is of erasing is already a critic?


* Technical aspect
              <'''Ctrl chapter''' :.
How data is structured? <br>
              [[File:Ctrl key.png|frameless]]
What is cluster/partition? <br>
What is data recovery? <br>
<Data erasure <br>


[existing material: proposal and essay on practice, notes from methods class - texts that relate to your work]
'''argument''': The digital / digitization made us believe that the knowledge can be free / share and  common for all.  <br>
This chapter will investigate “ cloud services” and fairness of access. Who is the actual owner of the content available online? Did it become a common property of all, pointed by Richard Barbrook or it is hold by other entity?<br>
What if there is a time-based service that provides the users to obtain certain control over or expiration time on their content or applying a delete key?<br>
'''Case_study''': [http://vanish.cs.washington.edu/ Vanish] is a research project and a software bundle, initiated by Roxana Geambasu, Amit Levy and Yoshi Kohno
which aims to help users to preserve some control, by ensuring that the electronic data, posted on the web such as emails, massages, photos, as well as text becomes permanently unavailable after a specified period of time.


chapter 1
Please see the annotation on Vanish project --><br>
#REDIRECT [[User: Michaela/Notes and annotations]]
==Bibliography (so far)==


Project description and aims = 250 words
Kleiner. Dmytri, ''The Telekommunist Manifesto''


I have started a process of retrieving old hard drives disks (data storage) restoring the data out of them, in order to examine abandoned data and leftover traces. By doing this I am exploring the problematic aspect of data erasure.
Hyves. Lewis, ''Common as air''
The hard drive, in this case a rather obsolete object, serves as an ultimate storage of data, container of past and present, which could be also invaded and investigated further.
The traces of information are exponential they contain various sources...they travel, scattered being trade -transacted or serve as a found footage for artistic intervention.


Banner. Stuart, ''American Property: A History of How, Why, and What We Own?''


[existing material: proposal and essay on practice]
Jefrey. Rosen, ''The end of forgetting''


Past work and contextualisation = 1000 [existing material: 'what, how and why' texts; notes from methods class - texts that relate to your work.]
Mayer-Schönberger. Viktor, ''Delete:The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age''


chapter 2
Barbrook. Richard, <br>
[http://constantvzw.org/verlag/spip.php?page=article&id_article=20&mot_filtre=9&id_lang=0 The Regulation of Liberty: free speech, free trade and free gifts on the Net]
<br>
<br>
'''notes:'''<br>
Blackstone. William //<br>
Locke. John // Of property


==PROCESS BASED==
For example this chapter could describe my methodology of data recovery. <br>
I built a simple methodology of data recovery. The data storage is the approached collection of ten hard drives followed by information about the hard drive: the source of origin()


The documentation or the process of recovery consists of video capture of the used software and sound from a spinning hard drive disk (unable to boot). In order to organize this accidentally found archive I simply described the size/ model of each hard drive, the process of the remain time and amount of the restored data. Data collection consists of rich content of personal data: img files, videos files, audio files, code or text logs and trash (or unrecoverable files or parasite files etc.) Sample of found material:
=======================
possible entry_ art context&own practice???


Continuation of past work and contextualisation: 1000 [existing material: 'what, how and why' texts; notes from methods class - texts that relate to your work.]
I will map a research from art practices as appropriation, DADA, ready-made and SI applied to my own practice or the current grad project - retrieving hard drives and using the information out of them for an artistic purposes.<br><br>


chapter 3:
=======================


'''links ( to be moved from this dir ) :<br>'''


[http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/ghana804/video/video_index.html Ghana digital dumping ground article]


[http://boingboing.net/2009/06/25/illegal-e-waste-dump.html  Illegal e-waste dumped in Ghana includes unencrypted hard drives full of US security secrets]


genesis of current project = 1000 [existing material: proposal and essay on practice]
Legend of multiple passes of overwriting:<br>


chapter 4
http://grot.com/wordpress/?p=154


current project and contextualisation = 2000 [existing material: proposal and notes for proposal]
http://www.pcworld.com/article/209418/how_do_i_permanently_delete_files_from_my_hard_disk.html


chapter 5
https://ssd.eff.org/tech/deletion


exhibition = 1000 words
http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/10464/why-is-writing-zeros-or-random-data-over-a-hard-drive-multiple-times-better-th


Conclusion = 500 words
[http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/jan/31/snowden-files-computer-destroyed-guardian-gchq-basement-video
 
theguardian_snowden-files-computer-destroyed]<br>
 
Word count 7500 words

Latest revision as of 10:42, 12 March 2014

Useful links:
A Guide to Essay Writing

Thesis Guidelines

Draft_ thesis skeleton:

ABSTRACT

The traces of digital information are exponential ...
They contain various sources...
They travel, scattered, being trade - transacted or serve as a found footage for an artistic interventions...
Traces of digital data are tangible. Events or evidences, which meant to be deleted from a system...
they serve as a subject of recovery, revisit and exposure...

INTRO

temporary unavailable will be filled soon!


CHAPTERS

Grad_Skeleton:
PART #1

             <ctrl + C / ctrl +V  chapter :.
   
             Esc key 2.jpg

question: digital object and its properties what has change from analog to digital?
argument: tangible and intangible properties of the digital object or the lost of the physicality makes it difficult to apply the same principles.
use value and copy make hard to distinguish the copy from the original
argument: digital object allows multiple copies of one single file, reproducing an accurate / exact copy of the original. Comparing with the analog object where every copy modifies the original.
Moreover each copying of the copy introduce / induce noise to the copy and the original itself. The digital object inherited share and distribution value. 

            <Del chapter :.

expanded storage / the impossibility to delete the digital file / missing erase button
the extend of the storage / memory capacity to save, preserve and archive.
Where the story of recovery of data from hard drives comes along ...
analog with the anecdote about Ghana disclosure of data.



PART#2


<Shift chapter:. 

            Shift key.jpg

question: How the copyright low is used to constrain and mimic the properties of analog? For example a digital file (pdf) is threaten the same way as a book.
revisit the copyright law and break the myth of the ownership of digital file.
argument: Copyright enclosure is build on top of laws, applied to physical property.
It can not be applied to the digital objects because of the nature of the digital and the listed properties.
Please see -->

  1. REDIRECT User:Michaela/Understanding copyright/ copyleft /copyfarleft


Case_study: >Sedition – an online art platform for selling art where an edition of a hundred unique digital copies are offered for sell.
"Limited edition of art for your digital life"


              <Ctrl chapter :.
              Ctrl key.png

argument: The digital / digitization made us believe that the knowledge can be free / share and common for all.
This chapter will investigate “ cloud services” and fairness of access. Who is the actual owner of the content available online? Did it become a common property of all, pointed by Richard Barbrook or it is hold by other entity?
What if there is a time-based service that provides the users to obtain certain control over or expiration time on their content or applying a delete key?
Case_study: Vanish is a research project and a software bundle, initiated by Roxana Geambasu, Amit Levy and Yoshi Kohno which aims to help users to preserve some control, by ensuring that the electronic data, posted on the web such as emails, massages, photos, as well as text becomes permanently unavailable after a specified period of time.

Please see the annotation on Vanish project -->

  1. REDIRECT User: Michaela/Notes and annotations

Bibliography (so far)

Kleiner. Dmytri, The Telekommunist Manifesto

Hyves. Lewis, Common as air

Banner. Stuart, American Property: A History of How, Why, and What We Own?

Jefrey. Rosen, The end of forgetting

Mayer-Schönberger. Viktor, Delete:The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age

Barbrook. Richard,
The Regulation of Liberty: free speech, free trade and free gifts on the Net

notes:
Blackstone. William //
Locke. John // Of property


===========

possible entry_ art context&own practice???

I will map a research from art practices as appropriation, DADA, ready-made and SI applied to my own practice or the current grad project - retrieving hard drives and using the information out of them for an artistic purposes.

===========

links ( to be moved from this dir ) :

Ghana digital dumping ground article

Illegal e-waste dumped in Ghana includes unencrypted hard drives full of US security secrets

Legend of multiple passes of overwriting:

http://grot.com/wordpress/?p=154

http://www.pcworld.com/article/209418/how_do_i_permanently_delete_files_from_my_hard_disk.html

https://ssd.eff.org/tech/deletion

http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/10464/why-is-writing-zeros-or-random-data-over-a-hard-drive-multiple-times-better-th

[http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/jan/31/snowden-files-computer-destroyed-guardian-gchq-basement-video theguardian_snowden-files-computer-destroyed]

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