#ELECTROHIPPIES

[yosefinasays]

Online Activist Resources: A Compendium

I've been reading into the history of Digital Activism, as I do my own work. And I have uncovered articles, blogs, and social networking sites dedicated to digital activism. It seemed like a good idea for me to share them here. To save someone else the work later down the line.

I'll be updating this post periodically with more resources:

Social:

Networks

Unified is a social network for activism. It combines social media and organizing tools to make it easy to build and participate in communities committed to positive change.

Forums/Reddits/Discords

Articles

https://www.vice.com/en/article/meet-the-environmental-hacktivists-trying-to-sabotage-mining-companies/

https://therecord.media/interview-with-guacamaya-hacktivist-group-latin-america

Resources

The ecectrohippie collective

The electrohippie collective are a group exploring the on-line boundaries of protest, organising, and the use of technologically mediated systems for networking, freedom of expression and communications in support of community or individual campaigns.

Arising out of a group of 'electronic' environmental and social activists during the late 1990s, "the electrohippies" became infamous after the Seattle Protests in 1999. Since then they have focussed on activities that keep them out of the news due to the obstructive hassles that such notoriety creates.

http://www.fraw.org.uk/electrohippies/index.shtml

Digital-Activist.org

Digital-Activist.org is an initiative by The Movement Hub project to support grassroots groups and movements in amplifying their impact with a diversity of digital campaigning tools.

https://digital-activist.org/

Rhizome

Rhizome is the home of born-digital art and culture since 1996. Learn about us and our #preservation, #commissions, and #7x7 programs. Explore #artworks, #publication, community, and events, online and IRL, or search our archives.

https://rhizome.org/

[erikonakaotokyo]

[pjnicklas5]

Electro Hippies - Peel Session (1987) by stillunusual https://flic.kr/p/2kZXXLT

[jakam]

The imspired album on my teen age. #badbrains #napalmdeath #heresy #ewtremenoiseterror #electrohippies #attitudeadjastment #beowulf #terrorizer #thepeelsession https://www.instagram.com/p/CBE1EEODmNs/?igshid=tla6h49h8un6

[peacevillerecords]

#Repost @uk_punk_zines with @repostapp ・・・ Day of The Donkey No 1. Slapped together my Trev from Axegrinder, decent Zine reminds me of Stage Dive. Late 1987 I believe. #axegrinder #extremenoiseterror #amebix #civilisedsociety? #karmasutra #electrohippies #blackwinter #somuchhate #hardcorepunk #punk #crustpunk #anarchopunk #thrashmetal #fanzine #punkzine #punkfanzine #uk82 #crass #diy #subculture #antisect #peacevillerecords

[disease]

BT // A2: “LOVE, PEACE AND GREASE” (MANTRONIK ELECTROHIPPY FORMULA) [LOVE, PEACE AND GREASE 12″, 1997]

[teejayameenspeaks]

Electronic Civil Disobedience as a form of Creative Activism

In my first blog titled “What is Digital Activism?” I sighted examples of some forms of Digital Activism and one thing that is synonymous with all forms of digital activism is that the message is passed in a creative way but still leaves a strong impact on the receiver(s) of the message and that right there is the beauty in the art of digital activism.

For this conversation, I will be exploring Electronic Civil Disobedience as a form of Creative Activism, to understand this, I will simply define “civil disobedience”.

According to YOUMATTER “Civil disobedience can be defined as refusing to obey a law, a regulation or a power judged unjust in a peaceful manner. Civil disobedience is, therefore, a form of resistance without violence”. With the definition above we now understand that Electronic Civil Disobedience is simply using electronic forms to achieve civil disobedience

Electronic civil disobedience was conceptualized as "dead capital" in the streets by Critical Art Ensemble. Resistance also became more dispersed and fluid as power had expanded, cyberspace was going to be the primary battlefield and the belief in the power of the cyberspace grew drastically. Two years later, EDT member, Stefan Wray said that electronic civil disobedience would become a real form of protest in the next century and he affirmed that it will not just be on a small scale, HE WAS RIGHT!

Practitioners turned it into a public spectacle, actively engaging a large number of "ordinary" participants, despite the popular belief that it should be an "underground activity”. EDT's "SWARM the Minutemen" (2005) reportedly attracted over 75,000 participants, and Electrohippies claim to have enlisted 400,000 people in their 1999 protest against the World Trade Organization.

Finding out about the above affirmed my assumptions that electronic civil disobedience gave birth to what we call digital activism today and this is because electronic civil disobedience was built on the assumed empowering potential of the internet but that’s my opinion.

As part of my reflection, I started reminiscing on active forms of digital activism that have been employed over the years by Activists in my country, Nigeria and I found some answers, find out in the next blog post haha.

REFERENCES

Ricardo Dominguez (2012) ‘On Electronic Civil Disobedience’ interviewed by Reclamation Journal, Available at https://zachblas.info/writings/on-electronic-civil-disobedience-interview-with-ricardo-dominguez/ (Accessed: 2nd November 2022)

Jara Shurety (2021) ‘What Happened to Electronic Civil Disobedience?’ HYPERALLERGIC, Available at https://hyperallergic.com/654595/what-happened-to-electronic-civil-disobedience/ (Accessed: 2nd November 2022)

YouMatter (2020) Civil Disobedience; Definition, Available at https://youmatter.world/en/definition/civil-disobedience-definition/ (Accessed: 2nd November 2022)

[veilingthevoid]

Poor camera quality but Kendal programmed a light strip to match my art 💛 #portrait #electrohippie #light

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[spaceschneider]

https://soundcloud.com/rss001/augenmerk-mein-kopf-ich-electrohippie-hypnosis

[eliottbaudhuininteractive]

CLASS 6 (week 7)

Companies have started with the use of internet (facebook, google) Small startups, basements. They grew spontaneously because of the nature of the network.

Mid 2000’s to today - INTERNET & THE WORLD : Big data

Paul Cirio & Alessandro Ludovico (artist and media critic, author)

https://www.paolocirio.net/work/hacking-monopolism-trilogy/

Google will eat itself - google was hacked in order to buy itself with its own money

Used to buy google shares (they created a firm) that could distribute the shares to everyone, making it a public company. Owned by everyone. They think that google, since it has been built, has gathered so much information. They grow (the ai) with all the data that we give it constantly. Buying google through its own advertisement. The artwork is the performance I, the objects were just proof of the artwork. In this project Google was hacked in order to be bought with its own money. Revenue was generated through Googles own “AdSense” initiative by programming bots to automatically click on banner ads placed on a network of hidden websites. The money from the scheme was used to buy Google’s shares and hand them over via GTTP Ltd., a firm set up for the artwork, which could ultimately distribute the shares to everyone, in order to turn Google into a public company. By establishing this circular model the project addressed monopoly over control of online information, advertising and its economy.

Co-authors: Alessandro Ludovico and ubermorgen.

Face to Facebook - Hacking monopolism trilogy 2011 - Got t

Lovely faces website, uses faces of facebook users  DATA SCRAPING

Social commentary on the lack of privacy that came with social media, Facebook.

They used data that was already on the site, technically not stealing because they were already there without them hacking facebook profiles to retrieve more personal information.

This project was a social experiment by appropriating one million Facebook profiles, filtering them with face-recognition software, and then posting 250000 of them on a custom-made dating website sorted by facial expression A.I. analysis. The dating website (Lovely-Faces.com) provided a stage for anybody to interact with Facebook users’ facial expressions and personality traits, while Facebook had to confront the artwork made with its appropriated material. The project took place over five days of thrilling personal, media and legal reactions, which became a Global Mass Media Performance. During the performance the artwork received over a thousand mentions in the international press, eleven legal threats, five death threats, and several letters from the lawyers of Facebook. The project addressed surveillance, privacy and the economy of social media monopolies as well as art interventions within global media.

Co-author: Alessandro Ludovico.

Amazon noir - This project eluded Amazon.com copyright protections through a sophisticated hack of the "Search Inside" service. Complete digital volumes of books were obtained and reassembled into .pdf format, then redistributed for free. The hacking took place while traditional publishers were persuaded to digitize their publications for being handed to Amazon.com. The project generated wide press coverage and in turn, press inquiries to Amazon.com, which kept denying their vulnerability. This media performance was documented through various types of offline conceptual installations and with the appropriated books printed and assembled as if they were the originals. The conceptual artwork integrated the criminalization of piracy with free circulation and access to culture, hence addressing copyright and fair use laws within the disrupting digital economy and knowledge misappropriation by information monopolies.

Coauthors: Alessandro Ludovico and ubermorgen.

Media performances

In between internet art and tactical media. Uses media to make it known as well as MEDIA TO using internet to present their “art”

(Vulnerability in the security issues of for large internet corporations

Use program software to hack and market

They performed artwork by hacking, they are reported, and gives them a platform of the issues they want to raise with these companies.

CHRISTOPHER BRUNO https://christophebruno.com/

Logo.hallucination

Human Browser (2006)

http://www.iterature.com/human-browser/en/

Series of wireless performances, based on a wifi Google hack, result of all the speeches of mankind, first female browser,

Receives a takes a text to speech audio, and the actor says it. A laptop hijacks google and derived  from its utilitarian function. Key word are used as search traits in google. Are always related to the context that is happening in. Send a keyword into google and read texts that has the keyword.

Post internet art?

Art made since the invent of the internet. About the internet rather than OFF the internet. Since the internet is no longer an option, it is now difficult to function without it. Difficult to not use it. It’s a necessity of our society, impact of in on our society.

Jon Rafman and “The Nine Eyes of Google Street View”

Series of picture he has taken from google street view. Looking through google street view to find interesting pictures.

http://www.remixthebook.com/the-course/net-art-2-0

You Are Standing in an Open field (Waterfall) 2015

“Social Sculpture to Social software

There is also a contemporary reasons for the internet of net based art today since they use pre-web 2.0 (facebook, google, etc) used the original network to create art

Today advertising does not work the same way as it use to. It now use our behaviour online so to see what they would craft for us individually. User generated content is sold back to the user through corporate structure.

TACTICAL MEDIA

They use hack on the internet and those are performances that are talked about in the mainstream media.

Critical Art Ensemble

Ricardo Domingez and the Hacktivism of the Electronic Disturbance Theatre

Floodnet = Virtual sit ins

Not anonymous

To show their view against propaganda as a form of art by staging “virtual sit ins” post online civil disobedience

Stage live performance to make themselves heard. Using the media to make themselves heard.

Non violent direct action online.

Flood net makes it possible for anybody on the internet (who has floodnet) to send a query to an url and that makes the website crash. (Anonymous) As if an impossible amountof people were reacing the site at the same time, making the site crash because it has reached its capacity of people.

Follows the ideas of gandhi of peaceful protest, all non anonymous, but online.

The electrohippies collective

Etoy.CORPORATION

Corporate sculpture registered in Switzerland. Maximise cultural value. Since 94, hacking dominating model of the individual artist, legendary for their digital hack, coordinate co-war

No other purpose than being art. Put all their money into making more art. They sell stock. Fans become shareholders. To possess art, you must invest in it.

Pretended to be the information they were looking for (in search engines). Gave them the impression they were being hacked. Take form of a corporation. All they do is an art performance. They used it floodnet to kill off the etoy website (a bot that would bring them back at the beginning when they were checking out).

RTMark

The Yes Men

The Institute for Applied Autonomy (Tactical media art group)

FINANCED FOR THE MILITARY: Using the logo from DARPA to send a message.

Tone: Make it seem like satire

Making it look from a corporate, but it is art. Use interactive technology to make art.

What do they communicate with this video? Informative video

Creating machines in order to avoid being caught for doing illegal, dangerous tasks. Using these technology for adaptive reuse.

Using home surveillance to look at us, developed a website to avoid surveillance. (Path of least surveillance).

TXTmob.com : Cellphone broadcasting system. Remain organised in protests (know where to go, for medical emergency, etc). Protesters can disperse at the sight of police and re organise.

Kit collaborative

[achroma-official]

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[991dotcom]

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[groovyhatefuck]

#electrohippies play fast or fucking die!!!!!!!! Starting my morning off with this record

[dont-fly-soar]

electrohippies reblogged your post: anyone in Cali that is voting tomorrow.

This has to be one of the most uneducated posts I have yet to read on Tumblr. Girl, do

Considering the fact that I've been studying GMO for about 2 years, I'd say I have a good understanding of it. Maybe you are the one who should look into it more.

[sorrystaterecords]

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