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Crash Recovery Device 2020 emp-resistant recovery device raspberry pi based linux system laptop / server / resource Despite what action movies tell us, the apocalypse is probably going to have less to do with zombies, and much more to do with climate disaster, water security, and infrastructure interruption. Although this is the day-to-day reality for many people on Earth—if you’re reading this, and have a $1000 cell phone in your hands, ask yourself: what would you without cell service, internet, and electricity for, say, 18 months? How would you contribute to your community? How could you grow food? How could you treat injuries? What if you went to art school for almost a decade, have bad eyesight, and have never actually been camping? In the event of an electromagnetic surge or solar flare; where almost all consumer electronics have been bricked, what do you do? Who are you then? I think about this a lot. Then, in late 2019, I saw this post from Jay Doscher. Jay’s work on his Raspberry Pi Recovery Kit was truly inspiring, and put the idea in my head to modify his work to fit my needs/fears. Jay has very generously put his project into the public sphere under a Creative Commons license, seeking remixes and adaptations—please check out his work here, it’s amazing. So, I took a month and built my own version. It’s constructed around a Raspberry Pi with an onboard 7-inch touch screen. It can be powered via external 5V USB, external solar power (from an 26800mAh solar charger), an onboard 12000mAh battery (which can be recharged by a 12v barrel jack input), and/or from just about any 5V-16V power source through a step down converter I built, which plugs into the front power USB connection. It has an onboard network switch and can function as a DHCP server, and has six exposed GPIO pins via a modified PS/2 connection. The casing is water resistant and the entire device is kept in a copper-lined and grounded box which acts as a faraday cage in the event of an electromagnetic event, preserving the hardware. All bracketing was custom 3D printed and designed, though much of it was designed after Jay’s original work (obviously). I’m particular proud of some of the modifications I made to increase stability. I added an inline 3 amp fuse (which was made out of a windshield wiper fuse bracket, so it should be easy to scavenge replacements), an onboard capacitor to smooth things out (especially when switching between external and battery power), and a 3.3v onboard fan to keep everything as cool as possible. Once booted, the Crash Recovery Device has the entirety of Wikipedia and Wikivoyage available offline as both a client-reader and a server (via the Kiwix project), detailed maps for just about everywhere in the world, and a library of PDF guides and instructions on every manner of survival and sustainability knowledge from medical care to beekeeping to orienteering to agriculture to water safety to animal husbandry to improvised shelter to nuclear decontamination procedures. The list goes on. In the end, I’m pretty pleased with how this turned out. And, it’s a neat thing to have on hand should the need arise. You can see more about this project with the links below and be sure to check out Jay’s projects at back7.co.

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image credit: CC BY 2.0 Burnt & Abandoned Computer by darkday

Winter is coming and Collapse OS aims to soften the blow. It is a Forth (why Forth?) operating system and a collection of tools and documentation with a single purpose: preserve the ability to program microcontrollers through civilizational collapse. It is designed to:

1. Run on minimal and improvised machines.
2. Interface through improvised means (serial, keyboard, display).
3. Edit text and binary contents.
4. Compile assembler source for a wide range of MCUs and CPUs.
5. Read and write from a wide range of storage devices.
6. Assemble itself and deploy to another machine.

Additionally, the goal of this project is to be as self-contained as possible. With a copy of this project, a capable and creative person should be able to manage to build and install Collapse OS without external resources (i.e. internet) on a machine of her design, built from scavenged parts with low-tech tools.

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Dead Drops

2010–ongoingpublic intervention

Dead Drops started in 2010 as an ongoing participatory project at five different public spaces in New York. USB flash drives are embedded into walls, buildings, and curbs and are accessible to anybody. Each dead drop is installed empty except for a readme.txt file explaining the project. Everyone is invited to drop or find files on a dead drop. To date, over 1.400 of these ‘dead letterboxes’ have been set up in dozens of countries all over the world. To install a dead drop in your city/neighborhood, follow the ‘how to’ instructions and submit the location and pictures to the online databank of the project.

Full documentation / project page : http://deaddrops.com

Exhibitions:

• Dead Drops at Palais de Tokyo, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2015
• Innere Armut, POHLEN, Berlin, 2018
• Biennale d'art contemporain de Strasbourg, Hotel des Postes, Strasbourg, France, 2018
• Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art, Coventry, Coventry, 2019
• Asuntos De Nuestro Espacio, Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas, Buenos Aires, 2019
• A Ripple in the Data Flow, Pfizer Building, New York, 2020
• Tap To Edit, Renk Rosenblat Alexa, Berlin, 2020
• A Brief Inquiry Into Empty Space, ZhdK, Zurich, 2020
• DeadDrops in H4v4n4, El Paquete Semanal, Havana, 2022
• Asuntos de nuestro espacio, EAC Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo, Montevideo, 2023

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Solarni magarac je projekt gdje magarac nosi set solarnih panela na sebi, opremu za audio video montažu i 'broadcast', te uključuje nekoliko pozvanih umjetnika. Dio projekta je i kriptovaluta Toward Euro, kriptovalutni algoritam koji ima svoje fizičko pokriće u pozlaćenom magarećem izmetu koji sadrži RF čip, u kojem je pohranjena vrijednost valute u trenutku kupovine, datum proizvodnje, ime proizvođača, te kriptovalutni algoritam.

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These books were not designed by humans. They were autonomously generated by our custom-coded reading-machine using Artificial Intelligence.

Our reading-machine begins by using Computer Vision and Optical Character Recognition to identify the text on any open book placed under it’s dual-cameras, before leveraging Machine Learning and

Natural Language Processing to select a short poetic combination of words on the page which it saves, while digitally erasing all other words. The reading-machine then searches for an illustration from the Google Image Archive to ‘illuminate’ the page based on the meanings of the remaining words.

Once every page in the book has been read, interpreted, and illuminated, the system automatically publishes the results using an Internet printing service, and the resulting volume is finally added to the Library of Nonhuman Books. From the moment our machine begins ‘reading’, until the delivery of the book from the print-on-demand service, our automated-art-system proceeds without the intervention of humans.

The machine can produce a multitude of unique ‘illuminated scripts’ from any physical book, each one revealing new meanings that were always there in the original, but have remained hidden until that moment.

In a time where books are being transformed into clouds of words, this project helps them find new bodies that lie somewhere between the human and machine worlds. A publishing experiment for our post-literate society, which increasingly defers its reading to nonhuman counterparts.

We are honoured to receive the Tokyo Type Directors Club Award for the Library of Nonhuman Books. It is a unique opportunity to share our work with our peers in an international context, with the hope we can continue re-imaging the futures of the book together.

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Ground markings to trap autonomous vehicles using "no entry" and other glyphs.

Performance of a salt circle trap, Mount Parnassus, 14/3/17.

Video / Interview with Creators Project

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This book investigates DIY tech culture and how it meets participatory, inclusive and community-based forms of creative practice. Critical kits are toolboxes, resources, instructions for how to make fun, experimental, or simply interesting things happen with technology. But they’re also a means to question the uses and abuses of technology, and to explore the network of affects technologies participate in.

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Artists who create interactive systems and artistic interface designs have begun to look for new display possibilities. For this reason façade’s of contemporary buildings have been largely investigated as a sort of membrane for the display of interactive digital content. These facades often make use of intrusive systems such as LED displays, monitor walls, or light bulb systems that fully cover the buildings to achieve large scale image displays. While LEDs are very expensive, monitor walls hardly work at daylight situations, and light bulb systems have only limited display capabilities. Equally we may understand that the mode of apprehension of media facades has changed tremendously compared to traditional types of building surfaces.

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