Telekommunisten
Dmytri Kleiner
dk@telekommunisten.net
http://dmytri.info
@dmytri
Telekommunisten
Miscommunication Technologies
social relations embedded in communications platforms.
Octo - http://www.telekommunisten.net/octo <– launching at transmediale 2013
R15N - http://www.r15n.net <– upcoming exhibition in Mal Au Pixel 2012 Paris
Miscommunication Station - http://station.jit.su <– AND Festival, Manchester 2012
Thimbl - http://www.thimbl.net <– transmediale 2011/ Unlike Us, 2012
deadSwap - http://www.deadswap.net <– Sousveillance, Aarhus, 2009
The Telekommunist Manifesto
The Telekommunist Manifesto
http://www.telekommunisten.net/manifesto
Published by the Institute for Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2010
http://www.telekommunisten.net
deadSwap
Launched at Souseveillance, The art of inverse surveillance, Aarhus University, 2009
Emphasizes the role of human behaviour in privacy
File sharing System on one USB stick
Hidden in Public Space, location passed on by anonymous sms gateway
Requires diligence and co-operation of users
Touches on issues of “Responsibilization”
Thimbl
Launched at Transmediale, 2011
Presented at Unlike Us, Investigating Social Media Monopolies and there alternatives, 2012
critique of the claims to innovation of modern social media platforms
uses finger protocol that was originally developed in 1979
creates fully distributed microbloging platform
is a “social fiction”
argues that barriers to free communications are political not technical
Capitalism will only finance centralized networks
R15N
Original developed as “JessyCom” during residency at Israeli Center for Digital Art
Launched as R15N as the “Official Miscommunication Platform of transmediale 2012”
Exposes the way information flows through networks, how volatile data is.
Also, a social fiction that addresses power asymmetries in mobile credit
Like deadSwap, demands diligence and co-operation to function
Miscommunication Station
Launched at Abandon Normal Devices Festival, 2012
Investigates alienation of voice in online platforms
Translates your text automatically as you chat
Adds thing you never said, including advertisement
Octo
Will be the official miscommunication platform of transmediale 2013
social distopia
investigates ownership of media, capture of user created value
Stay tuned