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Art for Spooks * ART FOR SPOOKS * Menu * * About * * App * * Book * * Photos * * Video * * Exhibitions * * Social * * Contact ART FOR SPOOKS Art for Spooks is an augmented book that takes a poetic angle to electronic surveillance. It combines texts and images from “leaked” NSA documents that evidence mundane concerns of NSA employees with grooming etiquette, gossip and surveillance at the work place; the development of encryption and psychological profiling tools modeled on alleged historical links between magicians and the military; and a delirious imaginary steeped in the world of modern folklore, populated as is with UFOs, popular media archetypes of evil and good, as well as (apparently) a taste for buffalo meat, high art, and orientalist and gendered themes. These materials are juxtaposed with graphics read through a tablet interface. The act of reading generates randomized data in the forms of new images and texts which are concurrently uploaded to various social media platforms. The traces of this data are refracted through algorithmic manipulation. Art for Spooks suggests that the intense categorization and cataloguing of facts, phenomena, and life under current modes of surveillance, demands the invention of new ones that resist the stultifying effects of this kind of instrumentalization. With this in mind, the project concerns the creation of feedback meant to augment the paranoiac impulses of the spy (unburdened by such trivialities as plausibility or verification) through the fabrication of evidence for unprovable verification and the grafting of this evidence on the world. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- APP PreviousNext * 1 * 2 * 3 * 4 * 5 The Art for Spooks app is available for free from the Apple App Store. If you enjoy the app, please consider donating to the Upstate NY Coalition to Ground the Drones & End the War! In order to do anything interesting with the app, you'll need to download and print out the book. An Android version of the app is under development. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BOOK You can download a low-quality edition of the book for printing on your personal printer, and for use with the iOS Art for Spooks app, here. A print-on-demand version of the Art for Spooks book is under development. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PHOTOS PreviousNext * 1 * 2 * 3 * 4 * 5 * 6 * 7 * 8 * 9 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VIDEO Art for Spooks from Nick Knouf on Vimeo. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EXHIBITIONS Art for Spooks Nicholas A. Knouf and Claudia Pederson Handbound case-bound book, iPad, found images and text, custom software 320mm by 214mm 2014 Art for Spooks can be seen at the following exhibitons: * "20th Faculty Biennial" at the Ulrich Museum, Wichita State University, April 25 to August 23, 2015 * "New View: 2014 Faculty Show" at the Davis Museum, Wellesley College, September 17 to December 21, 2014 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOCIAL Visitors to Art for Spooks can share images of their augmentations on various social media platforms. Other information—texts about surveillance, alternative GPS coordinates, text generated from NSA/GCHQ materials—can be found in the metadata of these images. LATEST UPLOADS TO FLICKR * * * * * * * * * LATEST TWEETS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTACT Art for Spooks was created by Nicholas A. Knouf (@zeitkunst) and Claudia C. Pederson. For more information, including media inquiries and exhibition requests, please e-mail info@art-for-spooks.org. To be added to a low-volume announcement list, please send an e-mail to announce-subscribe@art-for-spooks.org. We will, of course, never share your e-mail with anyone. Art for Spooks (book), Anti-Copyright 2014. Art for Spooks (app), ©2014. Code for the app is available on Github. Social media icons by Jorge Calvo.