{"id":319,"date":"2020-01-02T15:28:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T14:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.projectmindthegap.it\/mindthegap2019\/?page_id=319"},"modified":"2024-09-24T23:50:31","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T21:50:31","slug":"kairus-linda-kronman-andreas-zingerle","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.projectmindthegap.it\/mindthegap2019\/kairus-linda-kronman-andreas-zingerle\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"KairUs \/ Linda Kronman & Andreas Zingerle"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” z_index=”” css=”.vc_custom_1577804102858{padding-bottom: 60px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1578742592452{padding-bottom: 24px !important;}”]KairUs is a collective of two artists, Linda Kronman (Finland) and Andreas Zingerle (Austria). Currently based in Bergen (Norway), they explore topics such as vulnerabilities in IoT (Internet of Things<\/em>) devices, the corporatization of city governance in smart cities and citizen-sensitive projects in which technology is used to reclaim control of our living environments. Their practice-based research is closely intertwined with their artistic production: adopting methodologies used by anthropologists and sociologists, their artworks are often informed by archival research, participatory observations and field research. Furthermore, they publish academic research papers and open access publications to contextualize their artworks to wider discourses such as data privacy and security, activism and hacking culture, disruptive art practices, electronic waste and materiality of the internet.<\/p>\n

Between 2010-2016, KairUs worked with the theme of cyber crime (Internet fraud and online scams), constantly shifting focus approaching the theme from various perspectives: data security, ethics of vigilante communities, narratives of scam e-mails, scam and technologies. Subjects of the research were online scammers, vigilante communities of scambaiters and their use of storytelling and technology. In 2017, KairUs won the Stuttgarter Filmwinter Network Culture award with their installation \u201cMegacorp.\u201d In the projects \u2018Behind the Smart World\u2019, \u2018Internet of Other People\u2019s Things\u2019 and \u2018Ruins of the Smart City\u2019 they have been collaborating with a diverse group of artists, activists and researchers in both academic and non-academic contexts.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]\u2192 kairus.org<\/a><\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″ el_class=”photo-detail”][vc_single_image image=”169″ img_size=”full” css=”.vc_custom_1577806995620{padding-top: 6px !important;}” qode_css_animation=””][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” z_index=””][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1577975407319{padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”]<\/p>\n

Exhibited works<\/h2>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” css=”.vc_custom_1577806309133{padding-bottom: 24px !important;}” z_index=””][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]Future past still in the making…<\/em>, 2019<\/strong>
\nVideo installation, construction site fence, printed banner[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” css=”.vc_custom_1577804406900{padding-bottom: 60px !important;}” z_index=””][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]The videos are based on recorded material from smart city visits in South Korea, marketing material published by corporations and smart city initiatives. By decoding the visual and rhetorical language of \u201csmartness\u201d, the installation investigates ways to unveil the underlying power structures of smart cities and combines them with the observations that the artists made while visiting the actual sites. What is it like to live in a corporatized smart city? How is life in Songdo, a city owned by Gale International, Posco and Morgan Stanley Real Estate? How is life in Masdar City, built by a future energy company with the same name? How is life in GIFT city, one of the 100 ‘Smart City Mission’ cities in India where life is governed by companies\u2019 advisory boards where CEOs are flanked by local statesmen? How does life in these corporate test beds and demo-cities differ from the messy and complex cities we live in? How does a city with multiple histories and narratives differ from a city with a designed story?<\/p>\n

The installation was produced during a work residency at BEK, Bergen, Norway. BEK \u2013 Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts<\/a> \u2013 is a not for profit, interdisciplinary resource and research centre for work within the field of art and technology.[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”478″ img_size=”full” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” qode_css_animation=”” el_class=”bek-logo” link=”https:\/\/bek.no\/en\/”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″ el_class=”photo-detail” css=”.vc_custom_1577964577224{padding-top: 6px !important;}”][vc_gallery interval=”0″ images=”325,326,327,328,329,330,331″ img_size=”full” onclick=”” css=”” enable_drag=”yes” direction_nav=”yes” control_nav=”yes”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” css=”.vc_custom_1577806329539{padding-bottom: 24px !important;}” z_index=””][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]Panopticities<\/em>, 2019<\/strong>
\nVideo installation, printed posters[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” css=”.vc_custom_1577804413448{padding-bottom: 60px !important;}” z_index=””][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]The video portrays mega-cities through the lenses of unsecured public CCTV and private IP cameras. Networked security cameras offer 24\/7 surveillance. Tracking software and the integrated web-server allow processing and streaming as part of the growing amount of connected devices also known as the Internet of Things. These web-servers are often insecure by design, meaning they are not protected by a password or have hard-coded login credentials saved as plain text. By default, the servers stream unencrypted and on publicly-accessible network ports, providing potential risks of being intercepted and allowing unknown third parties unintended access to the set-up function of the cameras. Some manufacturers use the same vulnerable settings across their entire camera lineup. \u201cBy default, the Network Camera is not password-protected\u201d, or \u201cthe default user name is admin\u201d and \u201cthe password is 12345\u201d can be read in the camera manuals. Security cameras are supposed to offer security, not provide surveillance footage for anyone to view. Often, camera owners don\u2019t realize that their cameras are accessible on the Internet with default insecure settings, enabling hackers to enslave these cameras into botnets. Malware will use insecure webcams to infect the rest of the network, routers and other devices in the \u201csmart home\u201d, threatening both the reliability of surveillance cameras and also serving as a transmission vector to attack other devices.<\/p>\n

Locations<\/strong>
\nSeoul (Republic of Korea), Tokyo (Japan), Bangalore (India), New York City (USA)<\/p>\n

Voices<\/strong>
\nSeoul: \uc1a1\uc9c0\uc724 Song Ji Yoon, \uc2ec\uc900\ud615 Sim Jun Hyeong, \uae40\ub2e4\uc601 Kim Da Young.
\nTokyo: \u677e\u6751\u6df3\u5b50 Atsuko Matsumura, \u9234\u6728\u5553\u4e8c\u6717 Keijiro Suzuki, \u8fd1\u85e4\u4ee4\u5b50 Reiko Kondo, \u9577\u8c37\u90e8\u52c7\u4eba Yuto Hasebe. Registrazione del suono: \u9577\u8c37\u90e8\u52c7\u4eba Yuto Hasebe.
\nBangalore: robinjoseph23, pragyajha937
\nNew York: Mark Baldridge and others.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″ el_class=”photo-detail” css=”.vc_custom_1577963963806{padding-top: 6px !important;}”][vc_gallery interval=”0″ images=”321,322,323″ img_size=”full” onclick=”” css=”” enable_drag=”yes” direction_nav=”yes” control_nav=”yes”][vc_single_image image=”324″ img_size=”full” css=”” qode_css_animation=””][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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