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Disinovation.org
NationalityFrench / Polish
Known forContemporary Art
Notable workPredictive Art Bot (2015-2017),[1] Online Culture Wars (2018-2019), Shanzhai Archeology (2015-2018),[2][3] The Pirate Cinema (2012-2014)[4]
Websitedisnovation.org

Disinovation.org (sometimes referred to as the disnovation.org working group) is a contemporary art duo of Maria Roszkowska and Nicolas Maigret[5] based in Paris, France, that develops installations, publications and events about technology and politics.[6]

Their work has been presented at Centre Pompidou, Transmediale, Museum of Art and Design and the Science Gallery,[7] Dublin.

Selected works

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The Pirate Cinema

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The Pirate Cinema (2012-2014) is a video installation that uses a computer that constantly downloads the 100 most viewed torrents on a tracker website, intercepts the currently downloading video/audio snippets, projects them on the screen with the information on their origin and destination, discards them and repeats the process with the next stream in the download que.[8]

Predictive Art Bot

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Predictive Art Bot (2015-2017) is an algorithm for predicting artistic concepts.[1]

Publications

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The Pirate Book (2015) A compilation of stories about sharing, distributing and experiencing cultural contents outside the boundaries of local economies, politics, or laws.[9]

Notes

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  1. ^ a b Wójtowicz, Ewa (2019). Sherman, Mary (ed.). The Post-Internet Way of Art Criticism. Vernon Press. pp. 199–200. ISBN 978-1-62273-413-9.
  2. ^ De Greve, Teis; Zaman, Bieke; Schoffelen, Jessica (December 2019). "The Shanzhai City". Proceedings of the 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction. pp. 550–554. doi:10.1145/3369457.3369529. ISBN 9781450376969. S2CID 210867454.
  3. ^ Maigret, Nicolas; Roszkowska, María; Renaud, Clément (2017). "Shanzhai Archeology". Inmaterial. Diseño, Arte y Sociedad. 2 (4): 117–134. doi:10.46516/inmaterial.v2.41.
  4. ^ Cox, Geoff (2015). Real-Time for Pirate Cinema (PDF). Ljubljana: Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
  5. ^ "Entering the Echo Chamber of the Alt-Right". Hyperallergic. 2019-09-19. Retrieved 2020-04-25.
  6. ^ Group, DISNOVATION ORG ~ Working. "DISNOVATION.ORG ~ Working Group". disnovation.org. Retrieved 15 April 2020. {{cite web}}: |last1= has generic name (help)
  7. ^ "Fake". Science Gallery Dublin. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
  8. ^ Grba, Dejan (2017). "Avoid Setup: Insights and Implications of Generative Cinema". Leonardo. 50 (4): 384–393. doi:10.1162/LEON_a_01456. hdl:10356/138373. S2CID 57567360.
  9. ^ The pirate book. Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art. 2015. ISBN 9789619219287.