Unauthorized Access - Hacker Secret Revealed

UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS
April 7-21, 2006
Opening Reception: April 7th, 2006 Hermitage Museum
St. Petersburg
Russia

http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/00/hm0_4_154.html

In Collaboration with
National Center for Contemporary Art
St. Petersburg Branch, Russia
http://ncca-spb.ru/

“Hackers are a class, but an abstract class,
a class as yet to hack itself into manifest existence as itself.”
- McKenzie Wark “The Hacker Manifesto”

The rapid spread of information technologies in past years exposed new types of creative intervention in the “networked culture” where art and communication merge. Hackers, crackers, freaks, pirates and net-based artists have emerged from the underground computer world to expose their elicit programming secrets and activities which spread both fear and fascination. Our perception of hacking has been since prejudiced by mainstream culture and currently hacking has mostly negative connotations, however, if we examine the process itself we will soon enough recognize that the act of hacking is the most effective demonstration of virtuosity, which embodies a powerful mix of internet creative solutions, direct social intervention, dynamic skills and information dissemination.
Hackers, a side effect of “networked culture” can be addressed as an innovative form of expression, a new breed of artists with strong critical discourse and creativity.

Is the act of hacking an evil and mean act?
What are the aesthetics of hacking?
Is every bit a work of art?

The “Unauthorized Access” exhibition/event aims to develop an open audio-visual dialogue between the “network medium” artists and the viewer in order to answer to some of these questions. Participating programmers, ethical hackers and net artists invited to the Hermitage Museum exhibition often engage their audience directly, avoiding the display of their “artwork” in an institutional setting—this will be a first time for some of them to present their binary masterworks in St. Petersburg’s venue.
During the exhibition, artists, programmers, hacktivists and internationally recognized net art experts will present their projects based on media performance and programming modifications. The invited projects will bring together different aspects of functionality: live hacking performance, server security penetration, communication and net art presentation in collaboration with local artists based on venue location, and online and offline public interactivity. And it is exactly as the interface of these areas where a new scene of ‘network culture’ and public is emerging.

Curated and initiated by: Anna Frants, Abraham Lubelski and Jolanta Gora-Wita. Curators for Unauthorized Access in St. Petersburg; Sofia Kudriavtseva, Marina Koldobskya , Anna Kolosova
Net Art Coordinators: Anna Frants & Anna Kolosova.
Code Artists/Ethical Hacking Coordinator: Jolanta Gora-Wita
IT support by Terrence Culkin. Technical advise by White_Hacker, Puyan_bedayat, Delta and Z-Unix Hackers.
IT Coordinator for India: Mirza Afsar Baig.

Server Sponsor in Russia by Exigen Group, www.exigengroup.com

Live Performance: “Hacker Secrets Revealed”, April 7th, 2006, 3-6 pm (UTC/GMT), 8am-11am (EST).

“Unauthorized Access” media sponsors include: NY Arts Magazine, World Art Media, Art Fairs International, BerlinerKunst Project, Beijing Arts Center, China Arts Magazine, Bincode New Media, Soundscapes, St. Petersburg Arts Project, and Ethical Hacking Center.

For more information please visit: www.hackersinternational.com/access/
e-mail: info@hackersinternational.com

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Brief Event/Exhibition Description:

1. NET ART based projects will engage the idea of presenting the most current art via the Internet or media systems, or mobile phones, or any other technology which exist as art form online.

To View Selected Net Based Projects ->

2. Live Performance: “Hacker Secrets Revealed”

This live secure direct showcase will involve the latest available technologies for penetration - testing, or ethical hacking in order to help audience to observe and identify the creative process of security of computers, networks and websites by trying to hack into them at 3 different servers set up in following geophysical locations:
- USA
- Russia
- India

The code artists/ethical hackers will expose their elicit programming secrets and activities as follow:
Phishing, Pharming, Web Application Attack Simulation, Internal Network Attack Simulation (TCP/IP denial attack) and more..

For more information please contact:
info@hackersinternational.com

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