1. Describe the difference between Political Design and Hacktivist Art. Use an example of each and describe how that work fits the category of design or art.
– Political Design and Hacktivist Art go hand in hand with one another, usually trying to get the same message across. However, they differ from one another. Political Design attempts to change the world directly with force while Hacktivist Art tries to question it with humor. Hacktivist artists sometimes emulate the high aspirations and the solid programming skills of a particular species of activist that might be called a political designer. DeCSS is an example of Political Design because it challenges what is legal and shows what hacktivists are really capable. Whereas Reamweaver demonstrates Hacktivist Art, revealing what is not meant to seen in a humorous manner.
2. What does execution mean? How does it relate to computers (ie .exe files). What are some example of executatble art? How is execution different from representation? In other words how does each realte to the media paradigms of one-to-many vs many-to-many?
– Execution means to turn the potential power of instructions into the actual power of behavior. ‘To execute’
means to enact the code, turning the code into an actual act, preforming what the code is intended to do. Execution and representation are both related in getting a message across, but are completely different acts. A person can execute a project that can move people and bring up a lot of questions. Representation is just being on a side and supporting or showing what you believe.
3. Why do you think Hacktivist artists find themselves hacking capitalist and political structures that most other people revere? What problem or dangers do they see in these forms of power? Use sample projects to answer this question.
– What would you say is the most impossible system to hack? Maybe the government’s system? Hacktivists see this as a challenge, doing the impossible and finding out the truth. Hacktivists have more power than the government when they can tap into what is not meant to be seen by the media and revealing it to the public. The Yes Men show how you can simply change the minds of a large amount of people, even a country, by hacking into different places and telling people the truth behind an evil scam.
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