Sandbox

The Sandbox is the outpost of the Ars Electronic INFOWAR discussion. Here you can find material that was sent out by others to interfere with the transmission of information. We put it here in a safe place where everyone can inspect these hostile infoware - "Untrusted and banished to the sandbox" :-)



DECLARATION OF INFOWAR!

[...] Naive supporters of this hoax have repeatedly suggested that the best art can be made without the aid of high-tech corporations or institutional sponsorship, which is clearly not supported or substantiated by the facts of history. [...]


• Fast, Cheap and Out of Control

  [...] But the spheres of activism are not driven by insidious ingenuity, but by clearly delineated opposition. Nor are they sustained by incognito egos cloaked behind imperious and ambiguous intentionality. Activism, in short, is concerned with visibility and not subterfuge. [...]
  

• From: MediaFilter

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  This is not infowar.
  It's only petty chicanery by self-appointed
  "artist" wannabes masquerading in a role they
  couldn't begin to understand.
  - --Paul Garrin
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• From: Swarm

  *The information revolution is the key to the development of new designs and capabilities for sustainable swarming--from the establishment of an initial posture of dispersed forces, to the coalescing of those forces for an attack, to their dissevering return to the safety of wide dispersion, and their preparation for a new pulse. Only a new generation of robust information gathering and distribution systems can support such pulsing.*