Naked Bandit

Knowbotic Research

Naked Bandit , 2004 – ongoing

Co-workers & Funding

white sovereign:
naked bandit here, not here
naked bandit: here, not here

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Description

Knowbotic Research
investigates in the context of the
"war of terror" legal frameworks which inscribe and determine in mostly invisible layers our public fields of
action. KR directs the attention away from the dominant layer of represen-tation through mass media images and addresses directly the coded layers of these political inscriptions and offers interface to interfere into their logics.

While minds of concern :: breaking news was intervening into the security politics of a networked culture, naked bandit/here, not here/white sovereign focuses on the
mechanisms of detainment of so-called 'unlawful enemy combatants'
(terror suspects not entitled the legal status of prisoners of war):

Keywords

subjects
- Power and Politics
  - terrorism
  - warfare
- Technology and Innovation
technology
- displays
  - electronic displays
    - Binocular Omni-Orientation Monitor (BOOM)

Technology & Material

Material

The project investigates the formal mechanisms of such an inclusive exclusion and the inherent formations of power. Knowbotic Research translates the dilemma of the naked bandit, being
excluded from the legal body and included in a extraterritorial non location
into 3 different coded levels, and thus opens up virtual potentials and agencies to deal with (address, confront, alienate, contaminate) the naked bandit/here, not here/white sovereign logics.
- visualization/Latour

- virtual interfaces and aesthetics of degree zero

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- formations of detainment

- indefinite spheres of sovereignty/
Timothy Druckrey

- Interfacing different logics and codings of transnational space and power

- hybrid logics of public space

- auto_immunisation of sovereignty

- audioaspects

Exhibitions & Events

unbowed and unafraid

2009

Bibliography

Meyer, Eva. »Me as MacGhillie.« In Opaque Presence. Manual of Latent Invisibilities, edited by Andreas Broeckmann and Knowbotic ResearchBerlin, Zürich: Diaphenes Verlag, 2010.
Broeckmann, Andreas. »The Naked Bandit in the Theatre of Visibilities. Control, Attention and Performance in Recent Projects by Knowbotic Research.« Knowbotic Research (online) (2010).
Schmidt, Sabine Maria. »be prepared! tiger!.« Article Artist´s Homepage.
Nechvatal, Joseph. Immersive Ideals / Critical Distances. Saarbrücken: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2009, 2009.
Paul, Christiane. Digital Art. World of Art Series, New York: Thames and Hudson Ltd., 2008.
Popper, Frank. From Technological to Virtual Art. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006.
krcf. »Transcoding Sovereignty: Naked Bandit/Here, Not Here/White Sovereign.« In Sarai Reader 2005: Bare Acts, edited by Monica Narula and Shuddhabrata Sengupta and Jeebesh Bagchi and Geert Lovink, 111-114. Delhi: Sarai Media Lab, 2005.
Arns, Inke and Jacob Lillemose. »Es arte contemporáneo, imbecil - Comisarios de arte digital para sacarlos del gueto, a minima.« new media, actual art 13 (2005): 164-175.
krcf. »Knowbotic Research The Dilemma: Naked bandit Transcoding Extra-territorialities, Floating Sovereignties and Non-publics.« keine genaue Jahresangabe.

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