Jon Ippolito - Note biographique

Sélection : Gallery of CSS Descramblers, 2001 / David Touretzky
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/

Much as I would hate to repeat the Ars Electronica cop-out by giving an online art prize to a science fiction writer or operating system, I wanted to add to your Vigil a site that is currently outside of the recognized online or offline art world. Touretzky is a computer scientist at Carnegie-Mellon, and the variations on the illegal DVD-decryption code he's assembled are utter geekhood. Nevertheless, the creativity expended by volunteers working in an incredible range of media--haiku, music, t-shirts, even fictional programming languages--is awe-inspiring and entirely within the keeping of the Haktivist genre of online art exemplified by RTMark . The fact that this project complicates traditional notions of authorship, community, and fair use doesn't seem to me automatically to disqualify it as art, since so many recognized artists do exactly the same thing in a hallowed art context (eg, Knowbotics' _Connective Force Attack_ ). What do we lose by accepting Duchamp's legacy, in which art is what is found in an art context?

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