The Art of Misusing Technology
Source: Wired.com
Hacking has been described as a crime, a compulsion, an often troublesome end result of insatiable curiosity run amok.
Rarely has anyone who is not a hacker attempted to portray the creation, exploration and subversion of technology as a valid and elegantly creative art form.
But Open_Source_Art_Hack, a new show opening Friday at Manhattan's New Museum of Contemporary Art, attempts to show how the act of hacking and the ethics of open-source development -– direct participation, deep investigation and access to information -– can be art.
Each piece and performance features technology altered by an artist-geek with an activist attitude, something that the curators of the show refer to as "hacking as an extreme art practice."
