| Irational.Orgs's Traum-A Psychoarchaeologist's Dramaturgy Pml Book Series Edition Contributor(s): Irational (Author), M, V. (Author), Berry, Slater (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1906496986 ISBN-13: 9781906496982 Publisher: Mute OUR PRICE: $6.41 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Conceptual - Art | Individual Artists - Monographs - Science | Earth Sciences - General |
| Dewey: 700.285 |
| Series: Post-Media Lab |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5" W x 7.99" (0.32 lbs) 126 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book is a psychoarchaeological reconstruction of an art collective, irational.org, who existed in the times of the internet. The material reconstituted here was derived, after irational.org's disappearance, from multiple requests for data from their archived art server. These requests, made by post, were submitted by the author, V.M., to an unidentified and unreliable Data Auditor, using a Secure Access Protocol. It is rumoured that access to the archive was securitised by irational.org because it contains highly sensitive, possibly incriminating, data. The psychoarchaeologist's reconstruction reveals a cultural organisation that satirised, resisted and internalised the libertarian yet bureaucratic tendencies of a surveillance society, and its obsession with data privacy, security and property. The trail runs cold as the group made its retreat into the woods from a world that was disintegrating. Part of the PML Books series. A collaboration between Mute & the Post-Media Lab |
