Irational 10

Daniel Andujar TTTP (Technologies To The People)


An act that could be criminal (potentially mitigated by addiction to strong emotions), such as throwing dynamite into the water to generate waves that can be surfed with its explosion, becomes an audiovisual metaphor of hacking into public property for personal enjoyment. Free access to public systems (just as the river belongs to everyone, so do the contents that pass through the computer itself) is reduced to generating chaos for personal enjoyment, a cliché with which hackers are usually identified.

But what Irational.org is using to promote itself is a video that appears on Youtube, in the sports category, with the title Surf in Russia and is defined as: “Who said there's no way you can score some waves in Russia? In Jackass fashion, some individuals cause a dynamite explosion in a river (which, according to the comments, turns out to be from Denmark). Although with the appearance of situationist action or hooliganism at the end of the original document it is discovered that it is an advertisement of Quicksilver made by Jan Tvilling. One more appropriation of Irational.org. An accumulation of folds that relativizes the content of the document to demonstrate the manipulation of authenticity in the social media. Reality depends on the point of the journey in which a clip is visualized, on its ephemeral present.

An act that could be criminal (potentially attenuated by addiction to strong emotions), like throwing dynamite into the water to, with its explosion, generate waves that In 1996 Daniel García Andujar formed the international collective irational.org as a reference of net.art. From the beginning of Irational, the democratically egalitarian promises of the new information technologies and the will to control hidden behind their apparent transparency are ironically criticized. Its development as an online platform has allowed the author, camouflaged as a collaborator, to direct numerous projects on the net for which Irational has been the germ and model, such as: art.net.dortmund.de, focused on those interested in net.art; e-sevilla.org, e-valencia.org and e-barcelona.org, as discussion portals on the respective cultural policies, exporting the project to South Korea as e-seoul.org. On the other hand, at a theoretical level, e-wac.org compiles texts and news on contemporary art; and pragmatically, it has devised the platforms ma.exploradorarte.com and oe-manifesta.org as places for discussion, experimentation and diffusion of debates and artistic tools developed with free software.

* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLSHrK9SCrQ

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