Kingdom of Piracy
Curatorial statement by Shu Lea Cheang, Armin Medosch and Yukiko Shikata
published at Ars Electronica 2002
Kingdom of Piracy invites allied crews of hackers (in the sense of Eric S. Raymond "A person who enjoys
exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities") and artists to plug into
the supply lines of digital abundance. The site intends to be an active public sphere for global file sharing,
de/scrambling and digital culture jamming. Commissioned works are encouraged to engage in artistic
acts of piracy for the causes of intellectual discourse and poetic intervention, but not as any endorsement of piracy per se.
From the Automation of Relations
to the Amplification of Communities:
the Rise of DAOs
Published 23 August 2022 by Aude Launay
Between the Material and the Possible - Infrastructural Re-examination and Speculation in Art (MIT press)
What is to be done when a system is so overwhelming that only massive coordination to stop abiding by its rules
could result in its abolition, but that establishing this very coordination is somewhat impossible? Bypassing
the national rules and borders can be a way to not only raise general awareness around the tragedy of the commons,
but also to offer solutions both on the global and local levels. In this perspective, one network cannot go without
the other, and society may not find the answer to both the free rider problem and the always lurking abuses of power
without those global and local networks overlapping.To get there, DAO-to-DAO relations will be essential to think through,
and the matryoshka dolls model may be one of those possible relations.