A happy message from the Japanese art collective IDPW: The release of the book “A DECADE TO DOWNLOAD – The Internet Yami-Ichi 2012-2021,” has finally arrived. We want to thank you again and inform you a few things. With your great help and the participation of more than 200 vendors (–>see our Internet Yami-Ichi in 2017, Basel) a thick, heavy,…
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witness at collectivize facebook pre-trials
jana° has been invited to bear witness at a pre-trial to the UNCH appeal, to release facebook to the people, on the grounds of multiple and serious human rights violations. The initiative by artist Jonas Staal and the human rights lawyer Jan Fermon consists of a written and submitted appeal to the courts, a collection of signatures of citizens of…
Facial Detection Experiments
As part of the exhibition at the Propstei St Peterzell, linecode offered a workshop for trying out two of the most common facial recognition and facial detection softwares. A dual installation of the Viola Jones algorithm (statistical) used in the OpenCV Software and the Apple face detection (AI trained technology) allowed the visitors to experience and experiment with these tools.…
MegaPixel & Co
MegaPixels is an independent art and research project by Adam Harvey and Jules LaPlace that investigates the ethics, origins, and individual privacy implications of face recognition image datasets and their role in the expansion of biometric surveillance technologies. This is just one of the cool projects we discovered on our research about facial recognition and detection. We will be showing…
Organ hack
Sometimes its cool to hack analog to get hold of some retro sounds. The keys on the old bmi home organ were damaged, as well as the interface panel on the front. The sound of the reverb was still in tact though, so we decided to remove the unit and repurpose it for any future sound projects.
Niederdorfer Februar
Saturday February 23rd 2019. Early afternoon. Finally a brief respite. jana° and I have spent all day yesterday (and all night) installing our work ‘Telepräsenz Lounge’ in Karl der Grosse (KdG). jana° is a member of the digital rights activist group ‘Digitale Gesellschaft’ whose conference we were invited to ‘decorate’ with our work. The event is called the ‘Winterkongress.’ Karl…
Telepräsenz @ DigiGes
The Digitale Gesellschaft Schweiz held their annual Winter congress for the second time and line_code were the resident artists. The many talks spread out over two buildings, the centre ‘Karl der Grosse’ and the ‘Helferei’ across the street. An ideal opportunity to set up our ‘Telepresence Lounge’ with two instances. The two historic rooms, the romantic ‘Grüne Stube’ and the…
Data Detox in Fotomuseum Winterthur
Come and detox your phone and laptop at the upcoming workshop developed by jana°, with the help of materials provided by tacticaltech.org. 25. November 18, 12-18h Fotomuseum Winterthur There will be several sessions and tutorials, including a couple of Cryptoparties (one about e-mail encryption, one about private web browsing via TOR) and a brief overview to Steganography. Interested? Hope to…
25 years Fotomuseum Winterthur
Thank you and congratulations to the team of Fotomuseum Winterthur! We enjoyed what you do and what you are still planning on doing! Keep it coming!
jana° in the WOZ weekly
The activist and part time journalist Donat Kaufmann, known for his “Mir langets”(I’m fed up!) campaign, called jana° to write a portrait of her digital life, as a contribution to the double pager about the Swiss Digital Tag (Swiss digital day). A celebration supposedly of all things digital in Switzerland, – however, famously organised by the largest publishing house, accepting…