... Data Love provides a way to communicate, exchange files and listen to music together for groups of people that share the same physical space. Similar to projects like PirateBox.
... With DFRI, (Digitala Fri och Rättigheter) and Sparvnästet organized a number of Cryptoparty starting in beginning of 2014 at the art hall, Konsthall C. Cryptoparty had emerged as a reaction to the intensified force of surveillance society.
... it touches the “the problem of Relational art” of trying to represent participatory contexts. The production and conversation showed an unclear border to the alternative art world and the art world’s commercial sphere.
... Riot Chat is an homage to kopimi (copyme), a symbol showing that you want to be copied, and a sandbox for an anti-surveillance communication protocol.
... The report “Whitewashing piracy” focused on backlash, withdrawal of and reincorporation of the subversive potential of piracy, activism or hacking by commercial, state or free agents.
... The workshop focused on the transformative nature of piracy. A connection between global feminism and the creative non-white agency started to emerge as an alternative to the emphasis on the predominantly, white, middle class, male agency.
... The report points to how networked possibilities are inherently ambiguous and how this is something, where constant detours are necessary - jumping between different standpoint is important to reproduce creativity.
... I was able to develop thinking about how open hardware creates conditions for peer relations organized in open projects and how partnerships play on the border of trust and creativity.
... What I found in the comparative research was different approaches to software development, exploration and learning, something that reflects how these agencies imagine creative and open processes.
... In the report and with Burkhart's lecture I try to figure out the difference between Piratbyråns more ritual process and the more liberal and partisan process of The Pirate Party.
... The making of hacknight made it possible for me to develop and describe the differences between the hacker net-activist agency of Sparvnästet, and the liberal innovation coded maker agency of the Museum of Technology. A reworked article called “Hacknight” was later peer reviewed and accepted for the Journal of Nordic Museology in 2014.
... In the fieldwork at the software company, a difference between ideologically and ethically imagined openness and the everyday reality of the production of the business became apparent. Unclear boundaries, forming potential conflicts, occurred between the personal identities and freedom and the structured status of the company.