Amazon Noir - Hacking Monopolism Trilogy

Paolo Cirio / Alessandro Ludovico / Ubermorgen
Source: Paolo Cirio / Alessandro Ludovico / Ubermorgen

Paolo Cirio

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Co-workers & Funding
co-authors: Alessandro Ludovico, Ubermorgen
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Description
"In this project Amazon.com's website was the vulnerable target. We eluded their copyright protections with a sophisticated hack of the "Search Inside" service. We stole complete digital volumes of books, reassembled them into .pdf format and redistributed them for free. The project generated reactions from the press, which then posed embarrassing questions to Amazon. The performance is documented through various types of offline conceptual installations and stolen books and printed like the originals." - Paolo Cirio,
Coauthors: alessandro ludovico and ubermorgen.
Keywords
  • aesthetics
    • contextual
  • genres
    • digital activism
  • subjects
    • Media and Communication
      • access
    • Power and Politics
      • legislation
      • manipulation
      • politics
Technology & Material
Exhibitions & Events
Bibliography
  • Cirio, Paolo and Alessandro Ludovico. »The Hacking Monopolism Trilogy.« In ISEA 2013: Resistance is futile. Proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on Electronic Art, edited by Kathy Cleland and Laura Fisher and Ross HarleySydney: 2013.