Editing Net.art (section)

== Hacker culture ==
The Jodi collective works with the aesthetics of computer errors, which has a lot in common, on both the aesthetic and pragmatic levels, with [[hacker culture]]. Questioning and disturbing the browsing experience with hacks, code tricks, faux-code, and faux-virus, critically investigates the context in which they are agents. In turn, the digital environment becomes concerned with its own internal structure. The collective [[0100101110101101.org]] expands the idea of "art hacktivism" by performing code interventions and perturbations in art festivals such as the [[Venice Biennale]]. On the other hand, the collective [[wikispore:Art:Irational.org|irational.org]] expands the idea of "art hacktivism" by performing interventions and perturbations in the real world, acting on it as on a possible ground for social reengineering.

"We can point to a superficial difference between most net.art and hacking: hackers have an obsession with getting inside other computer systems and having an agency there, whereas the 404 errors in the JTDDS (for example) only engage other systems in an intentionally wrong manner in order to store a 'secret' message in their error logs. It's nice to think of artists as hackers who endeavour to get inside cultural systems and make them do things they were never intended to do: artists as culture hackers.".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thing.net/eyebeam/msg00527.html|title=<eyebeam><blast> 404|date=1998-05-01|publisher=[[thing.net]]|access-date=2009-03-12}}</ref>

A networking expert hacked into DNS servers to have the [[traceroute]] Linux command reveal the history of [[Star Wars (film)|star wars IV]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Sharwood|first=Simon|title=Traceroute reveals Star Wars Episode IV 'crawl' text|url=https://www.theregister.com/2013/02/15/star_wars_traceroute/|access-date=2022-02-06|website=www.theregister.com|language=en}}</ref> This deep technical repurposing for the sake of enchantment and fun can be considered as a net.art performance.

[[Computer worm]]s can be intentionally good and positive when they are repurposed for large-scale ephemeral art that uses the whole Internet as a canvas.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Aycock |first=John |date=2022-09-15 |title=Painting the Internet |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/236371/pdf |journal=Leonardo |volume=42 |issue=2 |pages=112–113 |via=MUSE}}</ref>