New Media Art Power: The Hackability Memorandum

Authors

HORÁKOVÁ Jana

Year of publication 2012
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Kritika & kontext, časopis kritického myslenia/Journal of Critical Thinking
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Field Art, architecture, cultural heritage
Keywords to hack; hackability; art; new media; power
Description We can identify an effort to relocate the terms hacking, hack etc., into the software studies academic discourse. We can interpret the shift, analogically to the meaning transformations of the term cyborg in 90s, as a fruitful and effective employment of the term within an effort to critically reflect activities of information and communication technologies users on a scale from rather conservative consumption to the most radical actions.

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