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Museo dell’Informatica Funzionante

Museo dell’Informatica Funzionante

Since the early '90 a group of Italian hackers started cultivating the idea of having a "working computer museum": a place to collect historical computers, but also documentation and software, restoring them to a working state, so that visitors can not only admire, but also experience using them.

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Networking: The Net as an Artwork

Networking: The Net as an Artwork

The book represents a first tentative reconstruction of the history of artistic networking in Italy, through an analysis of the realities which during the past twenty years have given way to a creative, shared and aware use of technologies, from video to computers, contributing to the formation of Italian hacker communities.

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Warscape Sonata

Warscape Sonata

Warscape Sonata is a sound art production that remixes information related to the current drug war in Mexico. Multiple online sources and viral videos are used to compose an electronic registry of the historic moment of militarized Mexico. The information obtained is mixed to create a noise musical structure that places aesthetic emphasis on the media aspect of the war.

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DYNDY

DYNDY

DYNDY is an effort at building a Pattern Language for Alternative and Complementary Money Systems to inform and empower grassroots communities with concepts and tools to overcome scarcity, instruments and reflections for the Exodus from proprietary money.

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The Weaver Birds

The Weaver Birds

This document is an open, collective and still in fieri expression of a large network of hackers and the beliefs motivating their actions. We aim to compile a programmatic, visionary and inclusive document to reclaim space in societies for the GNU generations, proposing a plan to be shared and that already is being shared by many.

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Streamtime

Streamtime

The Tigris Project – Free Flow From Iraq Reclaiming the River The Tigris is much more than just a streaming river: it is a cradle of civilisation, a stream of water for fishing, swimming, drinking, irrigation and dumping, hiding and shaving. And it may be a vehicle for anybody’s imagination. Since 2004 the Streamtime project activates knowledge and technology exchanges with war zones and places in crisis, to get out the word from those who live into the situation: bloggers, independent journalists, people. GO...

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