The Captive Portal as Artistic Opportunity and Ascetic Project

This paper looks at how the captive portal can be used as an artistic medium, in particular how it can provide opportunities to expose the hidden formal characteristics of networked interaction through a particular, limited, engagement with wireless technology. It will introduce the captive portal as a geographically limited wireless local area network (WLAN) that forces those connected to a single location. The paper will examine how their value as artworks lies in their limitations and draw comparisons to the installation in contemporary art and historical precedents from medieval asceticism. To qualify these observations the author will conclude by discussing a practice based example of using wireless local area networks as an open, democratic and site-specific artwork.

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Dave Evans

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Publication date: May 2018

Publication date (Print): May 2018

Pages: 1-6

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[1 ] Goldsmiths, University of London

London, UK

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVAC18.46

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Conference name: Politics of the Machines - Art and After

Conference acronym: EVA Copenhagen

Conference number: 7

Conference location: Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark

Conference date: 15 - 17 May 2018

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Digital arts and culture

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[1] G Agamben 2013 The Highest Poverty: Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life Palo Alto, California Stanford University Press

[2] A Cameron R. Barbrook 1995 The Californian IdeologyMute Available from http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/californian-ideology 15 June 2018

[3] B Groys 2010 Going Public (E-Flux Journal) Berlin Sternberg Press

[4] M Lazzarato 2006 Immaterial Labour M HardtP. Virno (eds). Radical Thought in Italy: A Potential Politics Minneapolis University of Minnestota Press 132 146

[5] N Wiener 1948 Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine Cambridge, Massachusetts MIT Press

[6] Piratebox https://piratebox.cc/ 15 June 2

[7] Othernet http://othernet.xyz/ 15 June 2018

[8] D Reinsel J. Gantz J. Riding 2017 Data Age 2025: The Evolution of Data to Life-Critical International Data Corporation White Paper Available from https://www.seagate.com/www-content/our-story/trends/files/Seagate-WP- DataAge2025-March-2017.pdf 15 June 2018

[9] E Roth Kopime Totem http://www.evan- roth.com/work/kopimi-totem/ 15 June 2018

[10] Subnodes http://subnodes.org/ 15 June 2018

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