/* if using System.hack() syntax in programming, a method hack would be invoked on the object System. */ System.hack() is an exhibition project and a book by Multimedia Institute realized through the collaborative platform Zagreb - Cultural Kapital of Europe 3000. You can participate by submitting your favorite System.hack()s.
Original concept and production: Multimedia Institute
Creative assistance: Vuk Ćosić and What, How and For Whom
A moment of excellence in programming is called hack. A perfect hack issurprising, mediagenic, innovative in employing technology, funny andnon-violent. System.hack() is every hack that opens up a closed system or makes an open system dynamic.
System.hack() exhibition seeks to find connections between moments of excellence in different fields of human production. This exploration always has to provide answers to the following two questions:
- What system is being hacked?, and
- How this system is being hacked, or what is a specific hack in an individual work?
The exhibition environment is not a gallery, but the interior of a hotelroom. The hotel room is supposed to function as the lowest commondenominator of living environments users/viewers/visitors/readersinhabit. The hotel room also functions as a Table of Contents for theSystem.hack() book. Museum labels found on exhibited objects linkindividual hacks to the essays dealing with issues they raise and socialcontext they intervene in.
Hacks exhibited:
- Orson Welles - War of the Worlds
- Captain Crunch - whistle
- Richard Stallman - GNU GPL
- Heath Bunting - Superweed Kit 1.0
- Michael Steil - Xbox Linux project
- CD Protection Kit
Authors of essays: Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Benjamin Mako Hill, Marcell Mars, Tomislav Medak, Ognjen Strpic and Mckenzie Wark
| Exhibition is opening on Wed., 14 June 2006, at 19 hrs in Hotel Dubrovnik, room 243, in Zagreb. |
| Opening hours of the exhibition are: |
| June 14: 19-21 hrs |
| June 15: 16-19 hrs |
| June 16: 16-19 hrs |
| June 17: 11-14 hrs |
Orson Welles - War of the Worlds
| System.hack(1,"broadcast","Orson Welles - War of the Worlds") | |
| Essay_english | TheRiseAndFallOfMediatizedRealityInTheAgeOfRadio, Tomislav Medak |
| Esej_hrvatski | UsponIPadMedijskeRealnostiUDobaRadija, Tomislav Medak |
| Date | 1938, Halloween-eve |
| URL | http://www.transparencynow.com/welles.htm |
| . | http://members.aol.com/benedit2/owelles.html |
| . | http://members.aol.com/jeff1070/script.html |
| . | http://www.earthstation1.com/wotw.html |
| . | http://www.war-ofthe-worlds.co.uk/ |
Captain Crunch - whistle
| System.hack(2,"telecom","Captain Crunch - whistle") | |
| Essay_englisth | BreakfastCerealAndInBandSignaling, Benjamin Mako Hill |
| Esesj_hrvatski | Žitne pahuljice i unutarkanalno signaliziranje, Benjamin Mako Hill |
| Date | 1972 |
| URL | http://www.webcrunchers.com/crunch/ |
| . | http://www.webcrunchers.com/crunch/Play/history/experiments.html |
| . | http://www.webcrunchers.com/crunch/Play/history/suckin.html |
| . | http://www.hyperdictionary.com/computing/captain+crunch |
| . | http://www.woz.org/letters/general/03.html |
| Notes | Biff51 writes: You guys have it all wrong. What you do is call an 800 number. Then you play the whistle. The phone company thinks you hung up. Then you can call any number in the world for free. I don't think it works anymore. I read it all in Bigger Secrets by William Poundstone. |
Richard Stallman - GNU GPL
| System.hack(3,"copyright law","Richard Stallman - GNU GPL") | |
| Essay_english | Richard Stallman - Hacking Property, McKenzie Wark |
| Esej_hrvatski | Richard Stallman - Hakiranje vlasništva, McKenzie Wark |
| Date | 1984 |
| URL | http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html |
| . | http://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject.html |
| . | http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/enforcing-gpl.html |
| . | http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/ |
| . | http://lessig.org/ |
| . | http://www.gnupauk.org/EnglishGnuSpectrum |
Heath Bunting - Superweed Kit 1.0
Michael Steil - Xbox Linux project
| System.hack(5,"locking","Michael Steil - Xbox Linux project") | |
| Essay_english | How to Sell Free, Ognjen Strpić |
| Esej_hrvatski | Kako prodati slobodu, Ognjen Strpić |
| Date | 2002 |
| URL | http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/docs/manifesto.html |
| . | http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/docs/remotedelete.html |
| . | http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/docs/letterantitrust.html |
| . | http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,53895,00.html |
| . | http://www.zdnet.co.uk/print/?TYPE=story&AT=39117043-39020357t-10000013c |