OPEN_SOURCE_ART_HACK

May 3-June 30, 2002 at Zenith Media Lounge New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City.

This exhibition, public programs and events was organized by Steve Dietz, Curator of New Media, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and Jenny Marketou , New Media artist based in New York in collaboration with Anne Barlow, Curator of Education and Media Programs, New Museum of Contemporary Art.

Installation photos: Courtesy New Museum of
Contemporary Art, New York

Hacking practices, open source ethics and cultural production are explored in this group show of artists who openly undermine the programming of everyday software tools.Open Source allows artists to become providers of functional tools with which users can create new forms of information aesthetics, modes of activism and content. Within this hybrid domain ,they can intervene on and off line operating in public and hacking the private, alternating or combining digital and analogue.